Oh I agree! Korean Air seems to have their brains up their Korean exhaust pipe. But isn't that the way a lot of companies are with their HR departments and any form of ethical concerns? IE: Hide the evidence and blame the whistleblower for making things out of proportion. In reality the Captain should have been Demoted but able to keep his job after a alcohol abuse program was successfully completed, the co-pilot should have received a written warning for creating an adversarial work environment. The Cabin Chief should have been rewarded for reporting a pilot who could result in real harm to their customers. But they just want to pretend "If I ignore it, it goes away"

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Unfortunately, this is not new. Air Canada has a long and shady past of misdirecting travelers to their detriment.

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Well the PHX base was a hold over of America West "Cactus" so I would not be surprised if most of them actually lived in the area. A lot of the AWA FA's had been with the company for decades so having to pickup and go to some less than appealing area probably isn't a choice they would want to make. AA always seemed to manage with a "take it or leave it because we don't care" attitude. It just gets worse as they merge with another airline and use unique "tactics" to get rid of whatever segment of employees they want gone. The favorite is to reassign to another crewbase. The ones they don't want get BOS, LGA, DCA, LAX or ORD. All the cities that have horrid weather, high cost of living, or are a nightmare to commute to.

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If they are A tier, often with 15+ years with the company less service than that and they are often B tier or Rapid Reserve where they don't know where they are going until they are called and then have 2 to 3 hours to get to the airport ready to work. I had a number of friends impacted when US and HP (america west) merged and it wasn't pretty.

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AA has been such a devious carrier for years. Eastern first then TWA. Then USAirways who was still trying to get things with America West & Piedmont settled to throw everything up in chaos again. Watch AA will now change to a new reservation system and it will go completely "under the sea"

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It was also because hub and spoke was not as effective as it once was. Hubs like ORD, DFW, CLT, PHL, BOS, MSP are all fine but most are capacity controlled so any weather incident of any magnitude and flights immediately are cancelled and worse the weather the cancelations skyrocket. but the aircraft that are stuck at the hub also end up having the flights they were going to operate cancelled too. Think PSA with their system issues put AA to a standstill in CLT for 5 days. DL ground to a halt 2 years ago when a electrical fire resulted in ATL going dark for over a day. I got the joy of spending 2 days in IAH about a decade ago when a tropical storm went through and flooded all the roadways into and out of the airport making pilots, etc unable to get to the airport from Friday night to Sunday mid day. Southwest does a modified point to point circuit. Where one aircraft goes from city A to B to C to D next day to E to F to G to H next day I to J to K to L to A Since the aircraft d

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wasn't because of volcanic ash? and all the planes were having to divert around those areas due to concerns that the engines would become clogged and flame out trying to fly through it.

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The Dual Engine ER designated aircraft are able to operate on one engine and maintain flight level. Originally the rule was more than 2 engines were required and approved by IATA ICAO for transatlantic or transpacific flights. Originally it was the 747, but then Lockheed came out with the L10 11 (tristar) the one with the engine in the tail and McDonnell Douglas DC10 was the other (tristar) but then after a decade the IATA ICAO allowed the manufacturers and airlines to conduct tests and submit data for the prior 15 years and it was found that with the right engine a normal plane could travel on a single engine to it's destination. Normally they just divert to the closest land airport

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I don't think the A380 uses any standard containers. What I really wondered is why Airbus didn't make the lower deck for cargo, and the upper deck for passenger travel. They would have the ability to sell to a larger market if it was a dual use. Currently carriers like Alaska operate aircraft where the front of the cabin (1/3 to 1/2) is cargo and the back of the plane is passengers.

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This is one of those that I saw coming from the far distance. Yes the A380 was big, and allowed airlines to create one of a kind travel experiences. But, after the first few years the shine wore off and paying 4 to 8 X the cost of a business class seat was hard for most travelers, even though with the ability to pay it, to accept the value in it. It's why Emirates was the only real airline buying the jets, but with the lifespan of a jet expected to be 20 or so years the orders quickly disappeared. Size & Weight kept it out of a large number of airports either because of the air displacement resulting in a elongated following distance because of wake turb. But a large number of airports didn't want to put out the money to bring the A380 in. Having to reconfigure taxiways, gates, replace areas the plane would roll over with highly reinforced versions of concrete so the aircraft could maneuver without damaging the travel surfaces. Even with the reinforcements the ports that have the

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