That led to its grounding in an area where water depth is 32 to 48 feet.
Monday night, tug crews had to cut the rig loose during a storm that whipped up 24-foot waves, leading to its grounding.
Giving props to Jeremiah, Todd Defren also looked at the integration of earned, owned and paid, but clearly gives more credence to PR and its grounding in the earned media space.
He insisted economics was much more than its traditional grounding in measuring out life in dollars and cents.
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On July 13th, Spain's Iberia resumed services after grounding its entire fleet of aircraft when its pay dispute with pilots escalated.
On Wednesday night, Chile-based LAN Airlines said it was temporarily grounding its three Boeing 787 aircraft in compliance with the FAA's recommendation.
However, in the absence of a deep-pocketed rescuer, the loss of confidence an airline suffers on grounding its planes tends to prove fatal.
The company says its current financial guidance assumes no significant financial impact from the FAA-mandated grounding of its 787 Dreamliner fleet.
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Japan Airlines has raised its profit forecast despite a decline in earnings for the first three quarters and the grounding of its Dreamliner fleet.
As a fleet-wide grounding enters its third week, the battery failures on 787s flown by Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways eariler this month remain under investigation by the US National Transportation Safety Board.
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Not that Boeing is publicly jumping on any scapegoats to wholly blame for the worldwide grounding of its 787 Dreamliners after the Federal Aviation Agency ( FAA ) issued an emergency airworthiness direction (AD) in response to a battery fire that forced an All Nippon Airways plane to make an emergency landing in Japan on January 16.
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And Qatar Airways said Thursday that it was grounding all five of its Dreamliners.
But incidents relating to battery malfunction earlier this year raised some concerns over its safety and led to the grounding of the fleet.
Last month, the head of Qatar Airways criticised Boeing in an interview with the BBC over several manufacturing faults that have resulted in the grounding of one of its three 787 Dreamliner aircraft.
The school beefed up its recruiting effort in China three years ago, said Dean Mark Zupan, after recognizing that the Chinese education system's focus on quantitative skills would provide a good grounding for students in its finance-heavy programs.
The Air Force announced earlier this week that it is grounding a third of its active-duty fleet through September 30 due to a shortfall in funding driven by the need to bring spending into compliance with the deficit law.
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Moreover, the fact that this grounding is the first of its kind ordered by the FAA since 1979 highlights the seriousness of the present situation, and thus constitutes further threat to the Dreamliner brand.
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All Nippon Airways said the Dreamliner grounding has had little impact on its earnings and profit shouldn't be significantly affected even if the suspension continues through next month.
But for the rest, bringing the public into a high-quality, two-way sense of what is being done in its name could bear fruit of real political grounding for diplomatic initiatives, therein greater legitimacy.
Grounding an airliner opens the door to damaging its reputation for safety, say experts.
Boeing redesigned its battery after malfunctions on some planes led to the grounding of the entire 787 fleet.
The commitment from Singapore Airlines marks a fresh vote of confidence for the 787 after the aircraft was plagued earlier this year by overheating problems with its lithium-ion batteries, resulting in a four-month grounding of the 50 787-8 jets in world-wide service.
Beyond the grounding of the 787 fleet, Boeing is still marching on with its production plans.
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While the latest quarterly results pre-date the grounding of the fleet, there have been concerns that the move may hurt its earnings in the near future.
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