Originally Posted by Han Solo

I just don’t see why our flagship base can’t hook up the effing power and air. I go to a po-dunk out station or a turd of a place like EWR and I’ve got both in under 10 minutes. I go to ATL and I have to run the APU nonsrop to keep the cabin cool. I touch ATL 1-2 times/day and they will usually get around to power (significantly slower than many out stations) but air almost never happens. All this nickel and diming I’m reading about and meanwhile I’m dumping cash out the back end to run the AC.

Originally Posted by JamesBond

I know you don't want to hear/do this, but fill out an FCR. If we aren't willing to flood them with paperwork about this, it will never change.

Ball's in your court.

Originally Posted by Han Solo

I just don’t see why our flagship base can’t hook up the effing power and air. I go to a po-dunk out station or a turd of a place like EWR and I’ve got both in under 10 minutes. I go to ATL and I have to run the APU nonsrop to keep the cabin cool. I touch ATL 1-2 times/day and they will usually get around to power (significantly slower than many out stations) but air almost never happens. All this nickel and diming I’m reading about and meanwhile I’m dumping cash out the back end to run the AC.

Originally Posted by ERflyer

It is going to be retested in ATL in July by a handpicked group of flight attendants. (“Flight attendants who meet the criteria.”) They want to save money on trays so not sure what a retest will determine.

Originally Posted by tomgoodman

It will determine how well they can handpick flight attendants.

Originally Posted by Hank Kingsley

IDK, they aka fltops has been writing this stuff for years. All they need to do is look out the window across the runway and see what's going on in Mecca. Should bring the Narita ground crews to Atlanta for a demo on how handle planes.

Originally Posted by LeineLodge

I've been blissfully out of the ALPA bickering/BS loop for a long while now.



Can anyone fill me in on why Kessler was "fired"? Was it job performance*, or is this just more purging for purging's sake?



Why was a change needed on the committee? It sounds like the rest of the committee walked at the same time - which indicates to me that they disagreed with the "firing".



Miskell, for one, has been doing great work on the FB pages answering scheduling questions, and in the office. Was he part of the problem too? Or just disgusted with the petty union BS?



If there was a good reason, then cool, and let's hear it (preferably from our silent MEC admin - paging Bartells & Schnitzler). If not, we all just lost a lot via this committee-wide brain drain.



Keep our new "relationship" with the company in mind when your next scheduling issue spends a year waiting for a grievance hearing, instead of getting made right*



I really don't give a $hit who sits on what committee, but I do expect there to be some adult, rational reasons for why these decisions are being made. Militant reps, playing vindictive games, are not putting more money in our pockets.







*The scheduling committee has recovered ~$6M for the Delta pilots in the past year

Originally Posted by Han Solo

I just don’t see why our flagship base can’t hook up the effing power and air. I go to a po-dunk out station or a turd of a place like EWR and I’ve got both in under 10 minutes. I go to ATL and I have to run the APU nonsrop to keep the cabin cool. I touch ATL 1-2 times/day and they will usually get around to power (significantly slower than many out stations) but air almost never happens. All this nickel and diming I’m reading about and meanwhile I’m dumping cash out the back end to run the AC.

Originally Posted by forgot to bid

I usually turn off ground air about 30 min before departure on an A321 then I promptly freeze everyone out. But ground air runs temps in the cabin to above 80-85F in a heartbeat, APU keeps it at around 70F. So once it hits 76F, boom, it’s off. The A319/320 are a different story, they like the ground air. Ymmv is what I’m getting at.

That said, talk to the ALA and they may have a reason. I believe the city runs the jetway air system so sometimes they don’t have it set right and it runs hot on a hot day or cold on a cold day so the ramp crews don’t even hook it up. Or that used to be the case.

If it rains those hoses are very heavy and may not even be worth pulling out if the crew isn’t using it.

Originally Posted by forgot to bid

I usually turn off ground air about 30 min before departure on an A321 then I promptly freeze everyone out. But ground air runs temps in the cabin to above 80-85F in a heartbeat, APU keeps it at around 70F. So once it hits 76F, boom, it’s off. The A319/320 are a different story, they like the ground air. Ymmv is what I’m getting at.

That said, talk to the ALA and they may have a reason. I believe the city runs the jetway air system so sometimes they don’t have it set right and it runs hot on a hot day or cold on a cold day so the ramp crews don’t even hook it up. Or that used to be the case.

If it rains those hoses are very heavy and may not even be worth pulling out if the crew isn’t using it.