SWA or UAL
08-08-2022, 05:35 PM
#62
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2022
Posts: 120
Ummmmm, UAL’s current contract(not the TA that would have been voted down) has language that stipulates breakfast (hot unless you specifically order cereal) for ANY flight that has a report time before 8 AM. Yes- AUS- IAH and flights of that length and shorter have hot breakfast (sometimes the pilots choose to eat before pushback or trays delivered just passing 10,000 on climb out). No transportation at layover waiting upon reaching the curb? Uber black at block-in (aircraft block in) plus 30 minutes and expense. No questions asked and funds show up in your checking account within 72 hours. Transportation company (layovers in excess of 14 hours are not at an airport hotel so private transportation companies used) not there at hotel at pickup time? A chat icon on each pilots iPad for the flight number opens and you simply type in that you are waiting for transportation at the hotel and will get there once the transportation arrives (we don’t Uber TO the airport if transportation is late as this is their problem). This chat is monitored by the customer service team working the flight, flight attendants, operations staff (or hub operations for the zone your departure gate is located within). They make things happen when they realize we aren’t securing our own ride TO the airport (to be honest, this rarely happens). On the topic of CSRs or ops people/FAs questioning the CPT; it very rarely happens. They give us a pretty big rope at UAL and and very seldom question a decision we make. Sometimes we make poor decisions but that is on us.
For the above that I enjoy daily as a captain at UAL, I thank the UALALPA of years past who set the precedent. Sure, we just torpedoed a TA that was negotiated by some out of touch negotiators and the chairman resigned last week. I wouldn’t compare UALALPA to your snack eating captain though. Sorry.
For the above that I enjoy daily as a captain at UAL, I thank the UALALPA of years past who set the precedent. Sure, we just torpedoed a TA that was negotiated by some out of touch negotiators and the chairman resigned last week. I wouldn’t compare UALALPA to your snack eating captain though. Sorry.
08-08-2022, 06:53 PM
#63
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2011
Posts: 290
I just had my denver scramble on a SAT-IAH the other day. All of this is pretty accurate. I actually also had a spoiled meal and got myself a steak later that night that was fully expensed which was nice. Can't change my schedule to save my life though as a coastal 737 FO like it seems SWA people can.
08-11-2022, 12:08 AM
#64
Orbis Non Sufficit
Joined APC: Oct 2015
Posts: 735
I just had my denver scramble on a SAT-IAH the other day. All of this is pretty accurate. I actually also had a spoiled meal and got myself a steak later that night that was fully expensed which was nice. Can't change my schedule to save my life though as a coastal 737 FO like it seems SWA people can.
08-23-2022, 03:41 AM
#65
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2005
Posts: 396
I just had my denver scramble on a SAT-IAH the other day. All of this is pretty accurate. I actually also had a spoiled meal and got myself a steak later that night that was fully expensed which was nice. Can't change my schedule to save my life though as a coastal 737 FO like it seems SWA people can.
If they ever start denying it, well, then I’ll still get a meal in Houston, even if the next flight is delayed. Nutrition is a safety of flight issue.
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