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Old Jan 10, 2014, 2:45 pm
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Originally Posted by fastair
To be fair, a plane late by 15 min is not necessarily "unreliable". In many industries, a failure means the thing doesn't work. You choose to use a metric defined by the DoT that doesn't imply "broken" only "late by greater than 0:14 min". Given some of the variables that are outside of any airline's control in the U.S., a 6 sigma success rate isn't ever going to happen...for anyone, not even in a microcosm such as HA.
In any event, it shows a fairly tone-deaf CEO that trumpets reliability in a public context in regard to a <80% on-time rate.

Doesn't exactly conjure up images of "stable" and "reliable".

Originally Posted by CO_Nonrev_elite
I assure you that if it had been a pay decrease, they would have found a way to pay you less immediately.
Originally Posted by PV_Premier
^^^^
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