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Old 05-09-2017, 06:42 PM
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I'd like to nominate Spirit Airlines for blaming their pilots' not picking up open time as reason for cancelling their flights.

Nobody HAS to pick up open time.
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Old 05-09-2017, 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by mooney
KJAX by any chance? We're you my FO? I had an amazingly similar situation where after the FO finished his post flight walk around he comes up and says "ramper wants to talk to you". Ok. Hey Capt, you got a little dent back here! I'll go ahead and call mtx for ya! At least im pretty sure it was for a dent, whatever it was was either in the dent log or MELd anyways and I tell the ramper no need to. So as im checking into the hotel my phone explodes from maintenance control, dispatch etc telling me to go back to the plane because I forgot to write something up.
Nope I don't think it was me. If memory serves, it was somewhere in the Southeast. Baton Rouge maybe? Or Birmingham? Sounds like it's not an uncommon occurrence out there though!
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Old 05-09-2017, 06:56 PM
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Originally Posted by terminal
I'd like to nominate Spirit Airlines for blaming their pilots' not picking up open time as reason for cancelling their flights.

Nobody HAS to pick up open time.
Amen. Airline management 101 though sadly. Blame it on those mean, greedy unions. Always plays well with John Q Public.
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Old 05-09-2017, 09:16 PM
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Originally Posted by terminal
I'd like to nominate Spirit Airlines for blaming their pilots' not picking up open time as reason for cancelling their flights.

Nobody HAS to pick up open time.
Cliff Notes version of the Spirit TRO: "thou shall't now fly fatigued on broken airplanes after answering your phone on your day off."
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Old 05-09-2017, 11:03 PM
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I nominate this author. This is not going to end well. Look out for your crew members guys.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...ion/101426912/

Bravo to a brave male passenger who confronted the American Airlines bully (aka flight attendant) who hassled a woman with a baby on Flight 591, from San Francisco to Dallas-Fort Worth on April 21. Just when I was beginning to be worried about the notable absence of passenger solidarity in support of David Dao on that United Airlines flight, along comes Sir Galahad to renew my faith that chivalry is not dead.

Unfortunately, that courageous traveler seems to be the exception. Witness the latest episode of passenger abuse aboard a Delta flight from Hawaii last month. The viral video shows the poor husband/father being hassled by both cabin crew and security officers. He has to deal with these authorities on his own, with no other passengers coming to his aid.
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Old 05-17-2017, 06:30 PM
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I elect Frontier Airlines who does their drug screening at an out station. Nothing like finishing flying for the day and all crewmembers on the van when a Frontier crew shows up and has everyone continue waiting for Frontier crewmember to complete a drug test. Very inconsiderate.
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Old 05-17-2017, 07:22 PM
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Originally Posted by jethikoki
I elect Frontier Airlines who does their drug screening at an out station. Nothing like finishing flying for the day and all crewmembers on the van when a Frontier crew shows up and has everyone continue waiting for Frontier crewmember to complete a drug test. Very inconsiderate.
I hear your frustration. But sounds more like a union issue, whereas they don't have language mandates that transportation be separate for the employee undergoing the RDT.
"Go ahead guys, I'll grab a cab (and expense it later) when I get done. See you at the hotel."
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Old 05-18-2017, 08:11 AM
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Screening after misses the whole point.
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Old 05-18-2017, 09:02 AM
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Originally Posted by badflaps
Screening after misses the whole point.

No it doesn't, you're missing the point. The point is to not to delay revenue operations by screening crew before/during duty periods.

Won't matter for drugs, they stay in your system for at least a day or two.
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Old 05-18-2017, 10:34 AM
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Believe it or not, I've been screened for alcohol in SEA after a layover in MIA and a 5.5 hour flight home. Now that was a head scratcher.
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