EWR radios and radar fail again

[ahw01]

Pretty sure you can’t just drop some dude whose been working a couple of F16s somewhere in the middle of the desert southwest into some of the busiest and most complex airspace on the planet and have it go well.

Plus other hurdles

Hello Serco

 

[ClearedForOption]

I had the honor and privilege of operating one of those extra segments for the return, so it's being done in both directions.

 

[CoffeeIcePapers]

Deadheaded in. Inbound plane delayed, making me illegal. Now, I deadhead home in the morning. Good times.

 

[inigo88]

A friend of mine was operating a MCO-EWR leg a few days ago. A crazy long EDCT so the company said ‘eff it and sent them to JFK and got buses to transport them to EWR.

If only someone had told them about the runway closure, maybe this could have been the original plan rather than the contingency plan…

 

[pwttogfk]

This is both on the airlines and the FAA. Airlines are for-profit businesses, as they conveniently forget when they’re trying to pretend that they’re public transportation to get government subsidies. They use taxpayer funded infrastructure and services to make money. They should accept reasonable regulation to allow fair and even usage of said items. It’s pretty well known how many planes an hour can use a piece of pavement and yet the airlines cram more than that in because it makes more money to use 3 subcontracted RJs instead of one of their planes and run a schedule that melts down whenever there’s weather (because it’s still more profitable even with meltdowns). The FAA’s the only government regulator that has in their mission promoting the same thing they’re regulating. They need to just regulate and do a better job of it. Maybe in a few years they will, but even if voters do better I doubt there’ll be major change in the direction of the FAA.