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July 12, 2008
"There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." -- Will Rogers
June 27, 2008
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an action, but a habit."
-- Aristotle
June 17, 2008
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. - Dave Barry
November 06, 2007
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be the boss and work twelve hours a day. - Robert Frost
February 17, 2007
For Phatman:
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain
January 28, 2007
Psychiatrists say that 1 out of 4 people are mentally ill. Check three friends.
If they're OK, you're it.
January 19, 2007
You can never make anything foolproof, because fools are too clever.
December 05, 2006
The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian
pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings. -
Russell Baker
November 17, 2006
New OSS motto: "It is even better to act quickly and err, than
to hesitate
until the time of action is past." -- Karl von
Clausewitz.
October 28, 2006
Best way to appreciate a job: imagine yourself without it. - Anonymous MD-11 PiC
October 07, 2006
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go
into the other room and read a book." - Groucho Marx
August 05, 2006
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where
I intended to be. Douglas Adams
July 18, 2006
Why does not Eva Air understand this?
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. - Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
July 04, 2006
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it,
and wiser than the one that comes after it. - George Orwell (1903- 1950).
March 11, 2006
Here's one for El Gordo
March 08, 2006
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." -– Mario Andretti
February 13, 2006
"Remember: today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday." - Dale Carnegie
February 11, 2006
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to
performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it." -- Robert Heinlein
Decembre 03, 2005
"It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in
our air and water that are doing it." --Al Gore, Vice President
November 19, 2005
"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for
others to laugh at him." - Thomas Szasz
November 11, 2005
From a Safety Meeting a long time ago:
"I want ALL pilots to score above average!" - Chen Wei-Chou
November 07, 2005
"You got to love the freedom we got in this country.
You even got the right to burn the flag.
We also got the right to bear arms,
and if you burn my flag, I'll shoot you!" - Johnny Cash
Novembre 06, 2005
New office work rules have been published.
Link to the New work rules.
October 25, 2005
"Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs." - Lily Tomlin
October 12. 2005
Was he thinking of K-nn--y?
No matter what you do, maintain your righteousness. If you
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succumb to greed, you will find yourself impoverished."
Dr Y.F. Chang
(Addressing latest recruit intake)
October 11, 2005
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of
people: those who work and those who take the credit.
He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less
competition there. -- Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)
October 8, 2005
"Power attracts the corruptible, suspect all who seek it. We
should grant power over our affairs only to those who are
reluctant to wield it, and only then under conditions that
increase the reluctance." -- Frank Herbert.
September 30, 2005
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always
interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns;
there are things we know we know. We also know there are
known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things
we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns
-- the ones we don't know we don't know."
-Donald Rumsfeld.
September 24, 2005
"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that
power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted
by other things than power." -- David Brin
September 15, 2005
"He who is still laughing hasn't yet heard the bad news."
- Bertolt Brecht
August 27, 2005
As you may have noticed, we have reduced the activity here
on the rumors page and are now concentrating on the Forum.
August 27, 2005
"The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has
to make sense. -- Tom Clancy.
August 17, 2005
We have just gotten the third installment of the saga about the
Evil Empire. Read it here.
August 01, 2005
We have opened a Forum where you can post your own messages.
You can read anything without being registered, but in order to
post a message you will have to register. You can use ANY user
name. An email is NOT necessary. In other words: We care about
your anonymity. You will find the Forum here:
http://nankantraz.org/forum/Default.asp
July 30, 2005
Who on the 9th floor is this for?
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do
him absolutely no good." -- Samuel Johnson
July 29, 2005
Several sources have indicated that a local RCA got terminated
yesterday when a bottle of wine was found in his bag when he
got back from a flight. "Found in his bag" is what the rumors
say. Maybe someone can tell us exactly what happened. Are
our bags subject to search by company security now?
July 29, 2005
A web site visitor wrote to us and suggested that we open
a forum or discussion board.
Our programmers are looking at what is available on the market
and we will try to open a discussion area as soon as possible.
July 29, 2005
It seems that someone up there is reading our rumors page.
We published our views on bonuses for pilots on the 25th
and yesterday we saw a Fleet Notice about upcoming
bonus. What excuse will they use this time to make the
pilots' bonus smaller than what the rest of the staff get?
July 26, 2005
Sorry Kennedy, but:
The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that
all who are laughed at are geniuses. - Carl Sagan
July 25, 2005
We just got an email from a pilot who was worried that the
change from green tiles to gray tiles on the Eva building
would be so expensive that it would affect our bonus.
We would like to assure this pilot that this will NOT affect
the pilot group's bonus.
It will still be ZERO!
July 25, 2005
We just saw Bangkok Air's 20 second commercial on CNN. Nice!
When was the last time you saw an Eva Air commercial?
Have you ever seen one?
They don't believe in international marketing?
July 23, 2005
"But Captain, it is just for your protection."
Nankan security.
July 18, 2005
Our Deputy Assistant Web Master (DAWM) gave us this picture
from a local newspaper. Seems that Captain Crossley is starting
a second career. See it here.
July 16, 2005
Quote Of The Week:
"A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is
someone who will help you move a body." -- Unknown
July 13, 2005
We have relocated our server system to a new and safer location.
We felt that Mr. Liu's Storm Troopers were coming too close and
in order to preserve anonymity and safety we deemed it prudent
to leave Nankan and take the servers with us.
June 21, 2005
Captain XYZ has sent us his views on the based in ANC offer.
Read all about it on this page.
June 21, 2005
The Saga of the Evil Empire continues.
The author has sent us another episode of his epos.
Read it here: Shine-ing Smile
June 20, 2005
We have received a very interesting tale from a reader. Thanks!
It is a long, but fascinating story, read it at this page.
June 20, 2005
We just had the following reply to our news from April 01 from a reader:
Please do not forget Marvelous Marvin's sudden dyslexia at JFK.
Not only did JFK DEP tell him 7 times to turn LEFT, but they continued to
turn RIGHT instead, and took out an assigned altitude into the bargain.
So how does Kennedy reward this FUBAR? Marvelous Marvin is made a check
airman!
Now for the psychological game, or how to justify his promotion - how about
playing the recording of the FUBAR to all crews at AGS, and ask the question
"Is that TURN LEFT or TURN RIGHT"? Well, the result was no surprise - Expats
- LEFT TURN; Nationals - RIGHT TURN. But RIGHT TURN for 7 times? I don't
think so. Well, there you have it - all the national pilots reckon that on 7
occasions, the instruction was to turn right, therefore Kennedy was
justified in promoting Marvelous Marvin - the court of public opinion (well
Chinese) favored the notion that ATC got it wrong, not Marvelous Marvin.
How did EVA get the recording of the incident - the FAA were so pissed, not
only did EVA get a violation, but they got a nice shiny CD of the R/T
conversation and the ATC coordination. Try and get out of that one - "But
Captain, you don't understand" will not work this time.
If that had been an expat (not on the "favored" list), Kennedy would have
wet his pants in his zeal to have the unfortunate expat cashiered from the
service.
Also, how about the latest from ORD? "EVAxxx STOP!!" How dare ATC tell us to
stop after we have been cleared for takeoff.
For Kennedy:
"To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be
credible; to be credible, we must be honest." (Edward R Murrow 1908-1965)
June 14, 2005
Kennedy, this one is for you:
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a
life spent doing nothing - George Bernard Shaw
June 09, 2005
This can only happen in the new Eva Air.
Another expat RCA has been removed from the upgrade pool after
he completed his interview, completed his SIM evaluation, but
was failed on one of the newly instigated "Upgrade Line Checks".
What was so bad that he was failed? Well, he conformed with FCOM
and checked that the correct navigation bag was on board, but the CA
felt that he should fail, because he did not verify that the alternate airport
was available in the book. Excuse me! Where does it say that we have
to do that? In some secret "How to fail pilots" document?
Face it guys, there will be very few new expat Captains in this airline,
when they do their best to fail anyone who comes close.
June 07, 2005
Heard from a girl at Zigga-Zagga:
"What is the similarity between an Eva Air pilot and a dog turd?"
The answer was: "The older they get, the easier they are to pick up"
May 26, 2005
Give a man a match, and he'll be warm for a minute.
But set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
May 10, 2005
It is now confirmed that one of our best SIP and RCA is leaving
the company because he was severely harassed during the upgrade
interview about his sick leave after his on the job inflicted back injury .
Hektor, we wish you the best of luck and a future free of back-stabbing
deputy bosses. If you want to see what Hektor is offering in his new life,
please visit http://www.swissbeycamp.com/
April 24, 2005
We just heard from the 9th floor that P.Y. has started to study
French in anticipation of the upcoming Airbus sales offensive.
"What'll it be? 380LR, 380 Combi or 380F?"
April 16, 2005
Since it is tax week in the USA:
"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity
is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up
by the handle." -- Winston Churchill
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
-- Albert Einstein
April 09, 2005
Evergreen Marine has just been fined 25 MUSD for intentionally and repeatedly polluting rivers and harbors in the US with dirty oil.
We guess that heads will roll, not for endangering the environment, but for getting caught.
Anyone want to say something about business ethics?
April 06, 2005
The secret is out. The company is now considering hiring direct entry PiCs from Delta to fly our 767s at 10.000 USD a month.
We know a lot of guys, who are already in the company, who are willing to take the upgrade and do it for 9.500 a month.
April 01, 2005
We are hearing stories about a 747-400 freighter that took off from RW31 at Kennedy with a clearance to turn LEFT to 040. Instead this flight turned RIGHT and it took the female controller a lot of calls and finally some simplified English to make it clear to the crew that they were turning the wrong way and were endangering LaGuardia traffic. I wonder what color the aircraft tail had. Couldn't have been green, could it?
NAAH! All our pilots speak and understand English without problems, la.
April 01, 2005
For some strange reason FCD has just decided to include current SIGMETS in the pre-flight (self)briefings.
What is happening? Will there be no secrets anymore?
March 24, 2006
We hear that a couple of pilots that were going to China Airlines, decided not to go after they had seen the fine print in the contract that was offered to them.
"But Captain! You misunderstand."
March 21, 2005
A comment from an anonymous CA:
A good proposal! It means that I can just
rip the 4th stripe off, if the LC is not perfect,la?
March 20, 2005
We have been told, that in order to save money on uniforms, Shine has decided to use Velcro for the 4th full stripe for all newly upgraded Captains.
March 17, 2005
A large number of pilots, high on the RCA and SFO "seniority list", have been told about an upcoming upgrade interview and evaluation check ride. Guess if tension mounts....
March 14, 2005
Apparently two more of our over 60 ex-PICs have expressed interest in the Air Atlanta offer.
March 13, 2005
We hear that Captain Ian Logan is now flying left seat in a -400 for Air Atlanta between Madrid and Habana.
March 13, 2005
"Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception
of bad news, which follows its own rules."- Douglas Adams
March 12, 2005
It has now been confirmed that Captain Aaron Wang is taking over after Captain David Probert as head of Standards.
We also hear that Tony Lin has replaced James Kou as Standards Check Airman on the 747. Now, was there something wrong with someone at Standards?
March 11, 2005
Shine was visibly shaken today when another Taiwanese FO handed in his resignation. This time the destination was not China Airlines, but Emirates. Our clandestine sources on the 9th floor told us that there are more local FOs in the pipeline at Emirates.
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