Mon, Feb 09, 2004
FAA Praises Frontier's Commitment To Maintenance, Passenger
Safety
Frontier Airlines has become the only airline in America whose
maintenance department has been awarded the FAA Diamond Award for a
fifth consecutive year. The Diamond Award is the highest honor
given by the FAA and recognizes airlines and other maintenance
facilities where at least 25 percent of its aircraft maintenance
technicians complete certified training requirements beyond their
initial certification.
For the fifth consecutive year, Frontier far exceeded the
standard, surpassing all other airlines with 100 percent
participation of its aircraft maintenance technicians, upholding
Frontier's status as the first and currently only domestic air
carrier to achieve this distinction.
Each of the airline's 381 maintenance and engineering employees
participated in the program this year and 101 received a personal
Diamond Award for completing two days of training on FAA
regulations and policy, 58 hours of aviation maintenance training
and at least 40 classroom hours or three semester credits from an
accredited college in management, mathematics, English, science or
a related subject, for a total of 100 hours of additional
training.
"To earn this award, the maintenance and engineering employees
of Frontier Airlines have invested more than 34,000 hours in
maintenance training," said FAA National Resource Specialist Bill
O'Brien. "That is an impressive amount of time and investment that
Frontier has assigned to training, and it reflects Frontier's
unflinching dedication to ensuring the safety of its passengers and
the quality of its maintenance and engineering team. We applaud
Frontier's efforts as a company and we thank Frontier's team for
their personal dedication to excellence."
"Once again, our dedicated team of maintenance and engineering
professionals have shown themselves to be leaders in their field,"
said Frontier President Jeff Potter. "Their pride and dedication to
their work and our customers is evident every day and this award is
a continuing tribute to those individuals, the maintenance
profession, and to Frontier Airlines."
FAA and National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB)
officials will present Frontier and its maintenance employees with
the Diamond Award, as well as the individual achievement awards at
ceremonies today at the airline's maintenance hangar facility at
Denver International Airport.
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