I applaud SWAir for sticking to its core values and competencies. The airline continues to set not just examples, but standards for how to run a company, let alone an airline! This is why SWAir is content for so many business studies and why I regularly use the airline in examples in classes I teach about service deliver and cultures of excellence.
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There would have come a point at which the pilot would have had to abort the landing and go around again. Clearly, the flight crew agreed that there was sufficient runway to get the plane on the ground and bring it to a slow enough roll-out to get off the active runway.
Another reason for the hard breaking can also be that the best place to exit the runway was coming up and to avoid traffic on the runway (preventing other planes from using it) the pilot worked to get off as quickly as possible.
Strong and/or gusty winds, are unpredictable and can cause moment-by-moment changes in flight management. Even though the pilot can aim for a landing spot on the runway, he or she will have to fly with the actual conditions in the air, not according to where they want to land.
Finally, the key to landing is airspeed, not ground speed. The pilots manage airspeed, then need to deal with whatever ground speed they've got once they touch down. I'm sure anyone in a plane will agree that dealing with slowing down on the ground is far preferred to not moving through the air fast enough to stay in the air.
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EQ is one way to look at it. Perhaps it's a fancy psych-school-accepted way to call concepts that have been around for a long time, but were often dismissed -- until interest in the topic forced them to take it seriously, but because they'd previously poo-poo'd the ideas, they had to come up with their own terms for it. Silly academes! :-)
In recent times, there have come along many classes, courses, approaches, and even books and movies that help achieve the same thing. Many of which sprang from a single group of people about 40 years ago.
Each of the original participants took what they created and went off in various directions. Some famous, some infamous, and some quietly changing lives one person or one family at a time.
To avoid seeming like an ad, spam, or advocate, email me directly and I'll be happy to give you a list of resources to make help you with your research and course-wares.
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