Let's be honest here.... this is CUPE and this is about jobs, nothing more. The US and western Europe operate with the one in 50 rule and not only is it deemed safe by their regulating authorities, airlines from the various countries have been allowed to operate into Canada using this ratio as well...

It will take nothing less than a major Canadian airline crash right here in Canada (not some far away desert like Nationair's tragedy), and a Transportation Safety Chief Inspector brave enough to lay it squarely at Transport Canada's feet before anything changes. Unfortunately, you are correct. I r...

Hey Joren...I hope you're still around on this site...July 11th approaches. Just thought I'd reach out to you...and others on here again during this anniversary. Regards IABD :| Thanks IABD, I occasionally check in here. What I find so interesting/maddening is that people who have lived through an ...

Just came across this thread and thought I'd chime in on the need for a better system for whistle-blowing (for lack of a better term). Years ago at a carrier that is (some might say) thankfully no longer with us, I called in to what was then the Confidential Aviation Safety Reporting System to repor...

Bird Dog wrote: Those that were there in 1991 at the old Wardair hangar when the remains of our friends were off loaded in their respective caskets from the crash must remember the distictive door siren going sounding as the doors motioned to close. Even today when I hear such a horn when any door h...

Many thanks to BirdDog for linking the site. For anyone questioning whether the employee in question did or did not say, I can attest that she did as I heard it with my own two ears. Much like the comment you hear when a child dies "thank God you have another child", hearing something like that kind...