In another case, an airline engineer deducted the costs of flying his own plane.
Observers have pointed to a particularly bad crash it suffered when landing at Cairo International Airport in 2001 while operated by MEA. "Very often, the airline was asking for Egyptian airline engineers to fix its frequent technical problems," the worker said.
Walter Taylor, a Delta manager, says that the engineers have so much time left over that they boost their productivity by doing more "in-sourcing" (ie, fixing other airlines' engines).
Includes: First officers of airlines, flight engineers, flying instructors, helicopter pilots.
But Dave 1 and P-Thugg took it seriously enough to meet with the airline's engineers and venture capitalists, and ended up thinking the partnership "made total sense.
Today, in post-breast-implant, postasbestos America, airlines, developers and engineers would all have sought bankruptcy protection had they been sued for Sept. 11 damages.
But an engineer of airline deregulation, Alfred E. Kahn, a professor of political economy at Cornell University, disagrees.
But airlines and baggage system engineers are crediting advances in technology, both the kind passengers can see and the kind they cannot, with the lowest number of mishandled bags since 2005, when SITA, an airline-owned information technology company, started publishing an annual baggage report.
He was also the head of the Iraqi airline pilots' and engineers' union.
Airline companies employ engineers as performance analysts, crash investigators, and consultants.
