Outside consultant brought in to Southwest case
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Posted on: March 13th, 2008 by Dave Bess
The matter of being served a civil suit of $10.2 million is no small matter, and Southwest Airlines, the airline faced with such a debt for neglecting to submit its aircraft deemed to be at risk of stress fractures for testing, is taking it seriously.
Excuses in the press have surfaced, such as how Southwest though the matter had been solved by the Federal Aviation Administration last year, somehow swept under the carpet. Chief executive Gary Kelly said that he had brought in outside consultants last month to assess the situation, even before the fine was served.
JDA Aviation Technology Solutions was brought in, and the process was sped up after the fine was served. Kelly states, “I am concerned with some of our findings as to our regulatory compliance processes… the airline has the correct organizational structure “to ensure that the right decisions are being made.”
Oter new information comes in the forms of the names of the whistle-blowers, Douglas E. Peters and Charlambe Boutris. They wre the ones who spoke up about the FAA’s lack of force and sidling up to the airlines it was supposed to be policing.
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danny
This was the case where they flew their aircraft without prior testing and servicing I believe which is quite a disgrace if you look at the scale of things, if BA did it or someone like Emirates it would be all over the world nnews every day of the week!