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Airline Asks Passengers for Cash to Pay Repair Bill so Plane Can Depart
The Points Guy ^
| 11/20/18
| J. Scott Clark
Posted on 11/20/2018 10:48:08 AM PST by Simon Green
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To: Simon Green
It used to be fun to tell Polish jokes...
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posted on
11/20/2018 10:49:19 AM PST
by
BBB333
(The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
To: Simon Green
I’m surprised it was Boeing. Airbus OTOH...............
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posted on
11/20/2018 10:49:49 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: BBB333
ROFL!!
If i KNEW how, i would put up a picture of the mechanic checking the oil in Airplane!
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posted on
11/20/2018 10:50:25 AM PST
by
dp0622
(The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
To: Simon Green
Prolly just a muffler bearing.
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posted on
11/20/2018 10:52:05 AM PST
by
umgud
To: Simon Green
I would get off that plane and hitch hike.
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posted on
11/20/2018 10:52:53 AM PST
by
rdl6989
To: Simon Green
What I want to know is how can you get a hydraulic pump replaced for under 600 bucks.
To: Red Badger
“I’m surprised it was Boeing.”
I’m surprised you made that statement!
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posted on
11/20/2018 10:55:58 AM PST
by
TexasGator
(Z1z)
To: Simon Green
One more reason to just drive yourself.
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posted on
11/20/2018 10:56:01 AM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: BBB333
Stan Wojohowitz would still get upset.
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posted on
11/20/2018 10:57:29 AM PST
by
wally_bert
(I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
To: Simon Green
This is actually a useful anecdote. If it happens to me, my reaction will be quite a bit different than the one I initially contemplated.
This is China. Doesn’t surprise me at all that they were looking for hard currency. Things there are not good.
To: TexasGator
If it ain’t Boeing, then I ain’t going.
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posted on
11/20/2018 10:58:19 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: BBB333
Why can't Pollocks eat pickels? .
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They can't get their heads in the jar.
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posted on
11/20/2018 10:59:02 AM PST
by
Eddie01
To: bgill
One more reason to just drive yourself. From Beijing to Warsaw?!
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posted on
11/20/2018 10:59:35 AM PST
by
Simon Green
("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.”)
To: Simon Green
Please to pay honorable repair manager his graft . . .
To: Simon Green
The local “Boeing contractor” would be a Chinese Government, state-run company or a Sino-Foreign JV with a Government ministry. It was probably this company below
http://www.mroglobal-online.com/companies/ameco-beijing/
So obviously there is some credit or bureaucratic issue between LOT and this company. Holding an aircraft to get a $537 payment is certainly bizarre, but not something out of the realm of possibility for a Chinese (particularly government-run) company.
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posted on
11/20/2018 11:01:43 AM PST
by
PGR88
To: Simon Green
It’d take more than one tank.
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posted on
11/20/2018 11:03:40 AM PST
by
wally_bert
(I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
To: Simon Green
Look, if we’re all going to have to click the link, read the story, and then think before posting, it’s really gonna slow this place down.
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posted on
11/20/2018 11:05:30 AM PST
by
Mr.Unique
(The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
To: TexasGator
The ‘local’ Boeing rep was asking for ‘cash’ so he could skim off the top.............It’s the Chinese way...................
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posted on
11/20/2018 11:05:33 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: shelterguy
What I want to know is how can you get a hydraulic pump replaced for under 600 bucks. That must be for the part. Even for a part, that sounds VERY cheap.
But, add the A&P/A&I labor, inspections, paperwork... I'm sure the final total is in the tens of thousands. And then there is the lost opportunity due to downtime.
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posted on
11/20/2018 11:10:34 AM PST
by
C210N
(Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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