The FAA isn’t to keen on drug runners.

So, I worked at a place once where our competition was literally across the street. This competition had newer airplanes than my employer and they had just taken delivery of two almost-brand new 30-seat aircraft. On top of all this they sold their tickets for much less than did my employer and had really started to take a bite out of the market.

How does a company run newer, more expensive aircraft, take delivery of two almost-brand new aircraft and do it all at a significant discount?

Well …

Every so often said company would get a very plain aircraft in from somewhere south of the border. This aircraft would taxi into their maintenance hangar and shut down. The hangar would then be closed, any and all flights for that day would be cancelled and all employees would be sent home. The next day when these employees reported for work the aircraft would be gone and things would run as usual.

Yeah, it gets better.

This company is/was working on their scheduled service certificate and the rumor was the major hold-up (no pun intended) on the certificate was this company’s reluctance to disclose their source of funding. Wonder why?

Couple this little tid-bit with the other rumor that the primary owner is barred from setting foot on the premisis because of a past drug history (i.e. the company doesn’t want his presence to mess up their chances at their certificate) and well I hope most of you can do the math.

Ain’t aviation fun?