7ECA wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 8:13 pm
You want to nitpick AC?
I give you incidents from todays regional report...
An Eva Airways Corporation Boeing 777 300 Series (EVA010) from Taoyuan Int'l Airport, Taiwan (RCTP) to Vancouver Int'l, BC (CYVR) exited at Taxiway M3 which was not permitted for the aircraft type.
A Delta Air Lines Inc. Boeing 737-832 (N375DA/DAL2804) from Salt Lake City Int'l Airport, UT (KSLC) to Vancouver Int'l, BC (CYVR) conducted a missed approach to Runway 08R due to unstable conditions. The aircraft issued runway heading to maintain 2000 feet. The aircraft appeared to turn to the north east and was corrected again by the tower controller.
A Philippine Airlines Boeing 777 300 series (RPC7774/PAL127) from New York/John F. Kennedy Int'l, NY (KJFK) to Vancouver Int'l, BC (CYVR) exited Runway 26L at L4 which is a prohibited taxiway for that aircraft type.
You got it 7ECA.
And that's just 1 day, and just in Canada's Pacific Region, and at 1 not very busy airport...
These minor errors happen everyday. Where is the media on them? Oh the embarrassment!
The 2 taxiway exit errors are similar to what happened to AC in NRT - and certainly close to home - and they likely didn't even stop or realize their error. And those taxiways are charted as not available 777-300.
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In the AC NRT situation,
nothing was charted. Sure they made a mistake, but it happens to most of us from time to time...
The Delta 2000' to the NE off 08R wouldn't turn out well either... good catch by the controller. The published MA off 08R goes South to the VOR, so it wasn't an LNAV turn to the North... but mistakes happens, they corrected it and continued.
Not to mention Delta lining up with the taxiway in their own home airport in ATL in December... Go around was at 60'
Delta even landed a 767 on a taxiway in ATL on a visual approach in recent memory....
And they landed at the completely wrong airport in the Dakotas 2016...
And went off the runway and over the seawall in LaGuardia in 2015...
duele!
Where is your indignation and embarrassment on those incidents? I lost count, was that 3 strikes??? Don't get me started on American, or Southwest!
I'm not picking on Delta, or the others... I think they are great operations, I'm just pointing out that every airline, every pilot in this world are capable and do sometimes make a mistake. It certainly doesn't make them a joke or indicate the entire operation is somehow of poor quality as you insinuate.
Canadian media has nothing else of substance to write about, CBC in a recently mistakenly leaked email was purposely targeting and making up negative news stories on Air Canada! Riling up the ignorant like yourself. Clickbait is right!
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/m.huffingto ... _23211654/
As for your comments of poor customer service - Do you have direct experience you are referencing? Otherwise your statements are unfounded. AC has room to improve for sure, but they win awards, and generally run a pretty good operation... of course it falls apart with IROPs or mechanical issues from time to time, but that happens in this business.
If you want to talk about safety or analyze the mistakes made in an incident, I think that's positive. But ignorant, unfounded, misleading, disparaging insinuations and comments are not.
Welcome to the forum...