{"id":195302,"date":"2008-07-17T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/17\/us-airways-pilots-threatened-over-fuel-margin-requests\/"},"modified":"2008-07-17T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T22:35:00","slug":"us-airways-pilots-threatened-over-fuel-margin-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/17\/us-airways-pilots-threatened-over-fuel-margin-requests\/","title":{"rendered":"US Airways Pilots Threatened Over Fuel Margin Requests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, maybe the next time I fly, I walk instead.<\/p>\n<p>Some US Air pilots requested additional fuel be loaded into their aircraft in order to have more reserves upon landing.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/25710239\/\">US Airways retaliated<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>But US Airways recently crossed the line when it ordered eight pilots who requested &#8220;an extra 10 to 15 minutes worth of fuel&#8221; to attend training sessions, or &#8220;check rides,&#8221; that could put their pilot licenses in jeopardy, Ray said. The pilots were supposed to report for their training sessions Wednesday, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, we have bankruptcy, pay cuts for the workers, massive bonuses for the executives, and now attempts to eliminate safety margins on fuel loads, because you have to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">burn<\/span> some of that fuel to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">carry<\/span> that fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, maybe the next time I fly, I walk instead. Some US Air pilots requested additional fuel be loaded into their aircraft in order to have more reserves upon landing. US Airways retaliated: But US Airways recently crossed the line when it ordered eight pilots who requested &#8220;an extra 10 to 15 minutes worth of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,970,985,1216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-corruption","category-regulation","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}