Southwest grounds planes, places three in maintenance probe on leave (Winging It)

Southwest grounds planes, places three in maintenance probe on leave

Southwest Airlines has recognized as more serious allegations that it didn't do required inspections of some of its jets. Today, the airline said it grounded 41 planes -- about 8 percent of its fleet -- to make sure they had been properly inspected. Read about that here. Yesterday, the airline placed on paid leave three employees and said it would do a more thorough internal investigation of what went wrong. Read more on that in this link.

Posted by Tom Belden on March 12, 2008 9:35 AM | Permalink

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Fante:

I find it amazing how all of the Southwest loyalists have suddenly disappeared from this blog.

I also find it curious that while the national media has done a good job covering the story, locally, the story doesn't seem to warrant any etailed local coverage, even though were talking about the number 2 and fastest growing carrier out of PHL.

Again, if this happened to US Airways, it would be front page news (above fold) for a week and would be used as bullet points for any story in which US Airways appears.

Posted by Fante | March 13, 2008 2:46 PM

Posted on March 13, 2008 14:46

Jim McCloskey:

Fante, I replied to your previous blog from the March 6th column.

I gave US Airways their props for making progress. Tell them to keep it up. You are obviously a Dividends Miles Member, as I am, but probably a couple rungs higher.

US Airways made it too easy to try Southwest a few years back in PHL, and I haven't found any reason to go back.

Posted by Jim McCloskey | March 17, 2008 7:47 PM

Posted on March 17, 2008 19:47

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