Japan Airlines has been in the news over one of their pilots, who was caught trying to board a flight from London to Tokyo nearly 10x over the legal blood alcohol limit for pilots. Just this past week the pilot was sentenced to 10 months in jail in the UK. Obviously he was being incredibly…
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I like the passenger 747 in the background I assume they are at the JAL museum doing the interviews.
That's very admirable of the CEO and I have a lot of respect for him. He is taking responsibility for the people he manages and the company he leads. Truly a class act.
The people in charge ultimately suffering is quite a Japanese mentality so I'm not surprised to read this. Earlier this year at a university football game, a player on the defensive team had a late tackle on the quarterback and the head coach quit. Quite an embarrassing but admirable action for the JAL president.
Beyond the impaired JAL pilot attempting to work a flight is the underlying issue of “he grew to be depressed,” a much bigger problem IMO. It’s rather scary to think that depressed pilots, possibly suicidial ones, could be going out largely unchecked. While this incident brought the airline a lot of bad publicity, at least a potential tragedy was averted.
Wow. This is just like when Oscar Munoz took a pay cut after the Dr. Dao incident.
The video was copyrighted in 2009 (MMIX on the last screen). Still relevant though and encouraging.
The pilot was over the alcohol limit for pilots. That does not mean he was "drunk".
Oscar should have done the same following the dragging off of the passenger incident.
Great. Will that resolve the incident and prevent similar future incidents? Although admirable, guilt-driven actions for penance are worthless. What are they planning on doing in the future to prevent such a dismal breakdown of the system?
Given how ex-Delta CEO Richard Anderson has trashed Amtrak's product and service to a new low (was that even possible?), if the JAL concept of accountability applied to Amtrak, imagine how many of their EVPs, VPs, + CEO would be coughing up their salary (not to mention their secret pre-ordained bonus established at the beginning of each budget year and unbelievably achieved, despite a decrease in revenues.)
I genuinely thought this was from the 90s, until I saw the dreamliner model... US tv sometimes.
Many years ago AA had to retrain their recovering alcoholics to fly an airplane sober again. Pilots didn't know how. Hats off to AA! Better than a pay cut.
This is exactly why I hated my trip to Japan. The work culture is oppressive and intolerable - why people celebrate it is beyond me. How on Earth is it "admirable" to inflict a punishment on yourself for something that had nothing to do with you?