WASHINGTON — Steve Predmore has become the latest executive with an aviation background to join Amtrak, joining the passenger railroad as executive vice president and chief safety officer.
Predmore will join Amtrak on Nov. 4, reporting to Stephen Gardner, senior executive vice president and chief operating and commercial officer.
Predmore has most recently been vice president and chief safety officer at the Bristow Group, which provides helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft services for offshore transportation and search-and-rescue operations. He has also held safety positions at JetBlue Airways and Delta Airlines.
His experience also includes time in the oil and gas industry and with MV Transportation, which provides contracted passenger services including municipal transit, paratransit, and school bus operations.
Incorrect Mr Schneider nothing misleading at all what Mr McGuire said.. You’re comparing isolated incidents in a few locations instead of looking at the big picture.. Air traffic commands a large chunk of US passenger miles compared to Amtrak handling roughly 1% of US passenger miles.. Aviation has a safety record exceeding 99% of completed trips… Amtrak does not..
A little misleading statement, Mr McGuire—
Here in Alaska, we’ve had a number of fatal plane crashes in the last couple of years. One person was killed just last week in a commuter flight crash. Another commuter crash killed several people outside a remote village a couple of years ago.
And tens of others have died in this state on charter flights, some of which act like commercial flights, but under slightly different rules. All in the last couple of years.
Also, recall the hundreds killed in the 737 Max crashes. Granted, those persons died overseas, so maybe they don’t matter as much. But most (not all) of the reporting blames decisions made in and by the US for those deaths.
Yes, aviation has an enviable safety record overall, but it still has a long ways to go.
This guy may bring something good to the table. The airline industry has an enviable safety record. Only two passengers have died in commercial aviation accidents in the last 10 years. Amtrak has killed more than that in one accident.
Mr Schneider. When looking at the claim of two fatalities, there were only 2 passenger fatalities amongst scheduled airlines. These are Part 121 carriers. The equivalent of a Class I railroad.
There have been other fatalities amongst airline personal. One of the two passenger fatalities was a passenger on a cargo flight.
This is still a very good record. One thing about aviation accidents in this country is the accident investigation by the NTSB try to target what will prevent the accident from reoccurring.
Southwest is the largest carrier of domestic passengers and fourth in US overall (behind Delta, UAL and American which also have substantial international routes). Southwest has killed one passenger and has killed one passenger in an automobile which was driving near Chicago Midway Airport.
Pretty good record compared to AMTK with orders of magnitude fewer passenger miles.