More carmakers caught in headlights of VW engine-rigging scandal

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Volkswagen emissions scandal

Iran's 'catastrophic mistake': Speculation, pressure, then admission

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Missing MH370 likely to have disintegrated mid-flight: experts

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A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 commercial jet.

QZ8501 (AirAsia)

Leaders see horror of French Alps crash as probe gathers pace

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …

Monday, January 11, 2010

For Executives of Riau Air, Hopes Are in the Toilet

Jakarta Globe, Putri Prameshwari & Antara

Teguh Trianto, chairman of Riau Airlines, shows staff how it’s done as he cleans the toilet on one of the company’s Fokker-50 aircraft shortly after it landed in Pekanbaru on Friday night. (Antara Photo/FB Anggoro)


Struggling low-cost carrier Riau Airlines has come up with a novel way to remind cabin crew that cleanliness is next to godliness — getting the company chairman and other senior executives to clean toilets aboard its planes once a week.

Chairman Teguh Triyanto said that as of this month, senior staff would be required to help keep the lavatories of the company’s aircraft spic and span every Friday.

“We are trying to demonstrate that in addition to safety, passenger comfort is our No. 1 priority,” Teguh said.

He added that he hoped the scheme would motivate the company’s rank-and-file to keep the aircraft clean and thereby keep passengers happy.

Teguh said the toilet was an integral part of the plane, but cabin crew often overlooked its cleanliness. On Friday, Teguh climbed into a Fokker-50 shortly after it landed in Pekanbaru from Tanjung Pinang and started cleaning the lavatory.

Along with 10 other directors and managers, Teguh, recently appointed the company’s chairman, cleaned the toilet as well as other areas on the plane.

Riau Airlines, based in Pekanbaru, serves routes in the western part of Indonesia using a fleet of five Fokker-50s and two British Aerospace 146s. It also offers smaller aircraft for charter.

Riau Airlines discontinued its flight linking Pekanbaru with Jakarta on Wednesday due to ongoing losses. Teguh was quoted by Antara as saying that once the airline had acquired a larger aircraft it would reopen the route. “For now, we are only focusing on short routes in Sumatra,” he said.

The route opened in December 2008 with two Avro RJ-100 aircraft with a capacity of 108 seats each. In the future, the airline would focus on commercial flights from Riau to Sumatra, he said. Riau Airlines also recently opened a new route to Jambi and plans a route to Palembang in the near future.

As air transportation has grown rapidly in the archipelago in the wake of the economic reforms since the late 1990s, carriers have been pressured to compete to get the most passengers by slashing fares. Travelers’ comfort and safety have been often overlooked as a result.

Eko Roesni, secretary general of People for Indonesia Air Transportation, said airline liberalization should have come with much tighter regulations.

“And the regulations must prioritize passengers because without them the industry would not be in business,” he said.

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