Gulfstream Intl Responds to FAA Charges

Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Gulfstream International Airlines (GIA) has issued a response to counter FAA’s claims of improper record-keeping stemming from a 2008 inspection. The agency has proposed a $1.3-million fine as a result of its investigation. FAA “identified several instances where mistakes had been made, principally in record-keeping, and we have strengthened our efforts to ensure that our records are not only accurate, but clear,” says Dave Hackett, GIA president and CEO. While admitting to “one inadvertent scheduling error,” the company “disagrees” with most of the FAA’s findings, including that there were errors between pilot logs and an automated system reports involving 10 pilots. Gulfstream also asserts no dispatchers were scheduled for more than 10 hours of duty and that the two maintenance practices cited “were handled properly and were not violations.” While the company does not agree with most of the findings, “we do agree that any error is one too many. Beginning last summer, we immediately instituted daily flight record audits for 100 percent of our flights to prevent any future record-keeping errors,” Hackett notes.
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