THE directors of Fly Jamaica Airways have rubbished a report in Friday's Daily Observer, saying that delays are not unusual to the airline industry and that the company is not rocked by resignations.
Insisting that the safety of their passengers and crew is their top priority, Captain Paul Reece, chairman and CEO; his wife Roxanne Reece, a director; and Captain Patrick Cousins, also a director, said the information in the Observer story was wrong.
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"No one in this company must have any apprehension or any thought that we're flying an aeroplane that is not safe. So that's why we have a maintenance delay," Captain Reece said in response to the report of a number of delays experienced by the airline in recent weeks.
"If we have a light go on in the cockpit, we are not going to fly with it. We have to be safe. No one must say that any of our pilots or engineers let the plane take off with a fault," Captain Reece insisted.
"So when we have a delay, and we say we're grounded for maintenance, we are grounded for maintenance, because we want to fix it so when we fly, the aeroplane is safe," he added.
Yesterday, in a news release, the company noted that in the airline industry passenger safety requires that pilots and engineers are trained not to allow any aircraft to be operated with any malfunction.
"Therefore, when there is any indication of any abnormal situation, the aircraft will be grounded and thoroughly checked and repaired to ensure the safety of the travelling public. This is the reason airlines maintain such a high safety record," the company said in its news release.
"All of our passengers whose travel plans were recently disrupted as a result of our irregular operation for a period of two days were contacted, were re-accommodated in hotels, and travelled to their final destination on other airlines at the expense of Fly Jamaica Airways," the company added. more
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