What's your favorite ground crew?
01-17-2013, 06:42 AM
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+2. They all have masters degrees too.
The station manager at one resort destination (hot 30-something) would sometimes take us out clubbing. I probably wouldn't do that these days though.
01-17-2013, 07:47 AM
#14
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The old Continental (now UA) crew at CLE. They are on top of everything. Can't say enough good thing about them.
The worst has got to be AWAC in IAD for UAX. Nothing like boarding everyone up then waiting 45 mins for the ground crew to show back up. Then there's the time where they decided to do pushback training on an actual flight with people in the back. Pushed us back 20 ft, jack knifed it, pulled us back in, repeat for the next 10 minutes. Finally the supervisor who was watching takes over and proceeds to jack knife us 3 more times before she got us back just barely far enough to turn out. It was actually rather hilarious. We had about 3 planes on each side of us watching the cluster go down
I actually prefer EWR over IAD, which is saying something.
The worst has got to be AWAC in IAD for UAX. Nothing like boarding everyone up then waiting 45 mins for the ground crew to show back up. Then there's the time where they decided to do pushback training on an actual flight with people in the back. Pushed us back 20 ft, jack knifed it, pulled us back in, repeat for the next 10 minutes. Finally the supervisor who was watching takes over and proceeds to jack knife us 3 more times before she got us back just barely far enough to turn out. It was actually rather hilarious. We had about 3 planes on each side of us watching the cluster go down
I actually prefer EWR over IAD, which is saying something.
01-17-2013, 07:53 AM
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While it's nice that some pilots want to speed things along and help with the bags, isn't that a big no-no? I thought I heard somewhere if you get hurt doing it you're ineligible for Workman's Comp. If so, be careful-you don't want to get punished for doing a good deed.
As an aside, I once had the displeasure of working with a FA (on a 2 FA a/c) who wanted to be helpful and thought getting off the plane and flinging bags was a great idea. I couldn't seem to get it into her thick head that there was soooo much wrong with that and she broke a FAR doing so. Her brilliant retort was that the baggage handlers really liked her.
As an aside, I once had the displeasure of working with a FA (on a 2 FA a/c) who wanted to be helpful and thought getting off the plane and flinging bags was a great idea. I couldn't seem to get it into her thick head that there was soooo much wrong with that and she broke a FAR doing so. Her brilliant retort was that the baggage handlers really liked her.
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