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<blockquote data-quote="FedExwhistleblower" data-source="post: 1312953" data-attributes="member: 52987"><p>There are a couple of the same players in the FAA as the Southwest case. What makes this worse than the Southwest case, even though FedEx isn't a passenger airline, is the fact that FedEx is for the most part flying aircraft that the passenger airlines retired for a reason. The airlines retired these aircraft for many reasons, and amongst them is that they were getting too costly to maintain. There are a lot of structural issues, corrosion being a large one, due to leaky waste tanks, poor maintenance, and just the age, They're worn out. Then FedEx buys them for close to nothing and adopts lean manufacturing process into their maintenance and expects to do a C Check in 20 days. Toyota created "Lean" and if you check it just cost them $1.2 billion in fines due to quality issues, and ignoring safety issues. And then to make matters worse while FedEx is doing everything they can to save a buck, the FAA has been ignoring violations. They called it a "Cozy Relationship" between southwest and the FAA, this I believe goes way beyond Cozy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FedExwhistleblower, post: 1312953, member: 52987"] There are a couple of the same players in the FAA as the Southwest case. What makes this worse than the Southwest case, even though FedEx isn't a passenger airline, is the fact that FedEx is for the most part flying aircraft that the passenger airlines retired for a reason. The airlines retired these aircraft for many reasons, and amongst them is that they were getting too costly to maintain. There are a lot of structural issues, corrosion being a large one, due to leaky waste tanks, poor maintenance, and just the age, They're worn out. Then FedEx buys them for close to nothing and adopts lean manufacturing process into their maintenance and expects to do a C Check in 20 days. Toyota created "Lean" and if you check it just cost them $1.2 billion in fines due to quality issues, and ignoring safety issues. And then to make matters worse while FedEx is doing everything they can to save a buck, the FAA has been ignoring violations. They called it a "Cozy Relationship" between southwest and the FAA, this I believe goes way beyond Cozy. [/QUOTE]
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