Blog Posts
Few thoughts of Thanksgiving in Rio
As Day 56 dawns, Joe LePore and Jan Paladino are spending Thanksgiving in Brazil. The two have been under virtual house arrest since the late September mid-air collision between their Embraer Legacy jet and a Gol Airlines Boeing 737. While fully ad…
Day 52 and counting
This is the 52nd since the late September midair collision between a Gol Airlines Boeing 737 and an Embraer Legacy 600 in the skies over the Brazilian rain forest and quite honestly, I’m baffled.Like others, I’m obviously perplexed by h…
Are tougher times ahead for Eclipse?
An FAA spokesman in Oklahoma City just confirmed an item that had been floating around the Eclipse Aviation Critic blog … the Eclipse fleet is grounded until further notice.The recent Albuquerque news story that reported dozens of white tail …
Remember Airbus?
Those are the folks I used as an example of how the tides of an aviation business, especially a manufacturing one, can slide down the hill faster than you can say “Here’s your Type Certificate.” Airbus had seen the first order canc…
Bad Day in Toulouse
If you’re new to this industry, you might not have a feel for just how quickly the pendulum of fortune in an aviation business can swing. Look no further than Airbus for a glimpse of pandemonium. For the past few months, the bad news seemed…
Aviation and Communications still don’t seem to work in the same sent…
The aviation industry has a history of some pretty repulsive communications efforts aimed at customers and employees, like charging an airline’s best clients the highest possible ticket prices when those customers needed them most … at t…
Aviation and Communications still don’t seem to work in the same sent…
The aviation industry has a history of some pretty repulsive communications efforts aimed at customers and employees, like charging an airline’s best clients the highest possible ticket prices when those customers needed them most … at t…
Blogging worries me
If the key to writing about anything is to add to the body of knowledge in the world that attempts to persuade people to do or not do something, it would seem the critical element – other than laying down some insightful prose that is – …
Roll over Sam Gompers
As the first president of the American Federation of Labor back in the late 1880’s, Sam Gompers understood not simply the need for labor groups to preserve a necessary cohesiveness for success, but he also clearly saw the line in the sand betw…
FAA Funding
Speaking to the Women in Aviation conference on Tuesday, FAA Administrator Marion Blakey repeated her agency’s call for a solid funding mechanism that more closely ties aviation system revenues to the cost of delivering services, in this case …