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Which airlines? I feel like if this is an issue we should be naming names.
by kpmcc 11mo ago
Which airlines? I feel like if this is an issue we should be naming names.
- estebank 11mo agoRyanAir is famously one of them. Edit: I was recalling articles claiming the company purposely fueling less than other airlines in order to increase their rate of claims for priority landing to have a better "on time" statistics. This forum post disputes that: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/38501/is-it-true-that-ryanair-flies-without-fuel-reserves https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/38501/is-it-tru...
- PunchyHamster 11mo agoalso carrying less fuel does save on fuel usage
- fidotron 11mo agoNo way. Having attended meetings at ICAO I can also tell you many details of various aviation incidents, including their existence, are covered by some secret classification. This fact being disclosed caused most of the attendees to lose all hope in the rest of the proceedings. To their credit the FAA reps on that occasion were by far the most reasonable gov representatives in the room, and the FAA are one of the major voices pushing for greater transparency on it.
- nradov 11mo agoWhich specific civil aviation incidents are covered by some secret classification?
- SJC_Hacker 11mo ago> Which specific civil aviation incidents are covered by some secret classification? You would have to have secret clearance to know which ones
- nradov 11mo agoIt's cool, I have Top Secret Level 3 (Omega Sector) clearance so you can go ahead and tell me.
- alwa 11mo agoIt’s generous of the classifying authority to send to the ICAO meeting somebody both appropriately credentialed to know about the information in question, and willing to talk coyly about it. Did these additional incidents inform the policy discussions at the meetings you attended?
- fidotron 11mo agoIt's funny you say that, because the way it happened was it was blurted out by a diplomat from a certain country, at which point most of the regulators facepalmed and all of those of us from outside were having the same reaction as many here. The whole subject of discussion prior to this was efforts to improve data sharing wrt incidents.