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Old Apr 27, 2014, 9:50 pm
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channa
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While I respect the professionalism of the UA pilot who posted, it is concerning that the CEO and this management team is largely CO, and CO has had some publicized items that may have some safety concerns.

A couple I can think of:

1. CO solicited and received approval for some pilot training in stationary simulators rather than full-motion sims.

2. Excessive minimum fuel declarations on TATL inbounds to EWR on CO 757s. This launched an FAA investigation into the matter, which revealed a memo where management was pressuring pilots not to overfuel planes. This raised concern with the FAA.
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