The United States warned its citizens Tuesday against flying on Indonesian airlines following a string of accidents, saying the country's civil aviation authority did not meet minimum international safety standards.
Kind of a bit late wouldn't you say? Indonesia's airlines have been having accidents regularly – for years. Do a Google search to verify this – there are lots of links with pictures. Waiting this long was not a particularly smart thing.
Which leads us to ask – how come Europe came up with a blacklist? Does this not seem like a good thing for the US also? That being the case, Pakistan seems to show PIA's pilots are not real smart, damaging both its brand new 777-300ERs this week. By the way, most of that airline's fleet cannot fly to Europe. When do we get a warning about them?
Hello DOT and State Department? Anyone home? Maybe they are too busy messing with Virgin America.
