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Old 12-31-2022, 12:34 PM
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Originally Posted by KnightNight
$2 =< 10 minutes, 1 dollar per 10 minutes after that is what I do. Seems fair 🤷🏻‍♂️
I tip based on the service received from the driver. It’s for them. If they are late do to over booking, bad traffic, not their fault. Just like delays aren’t our fault. It’s a judgement call, but I feel it’s pretty easy to tell who has a good attitude and who could give $h!t about their job. 30 min after block in self help, done
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Old 12-31-2022, 12:35 PM
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Originally Posted by KnightNight
$2 =< 10 minutes, 1 dollar per 10 minutes after that is what I do. Seems fair 🤷🏻‍♂️
$1 per bag.
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Old 12-31-2022, 03:54 PM
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Originally Posted by pangolin
$1 per bag.
What my dad told my grandmother for tipping the redcaps at the train station back in the 1960s.
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Old 12-31-2022, 05:59 PM
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Originally Posted by TransWorld
What my dad told my grandmother for tipping the redcaps at the train station back in the 1960s.
I mean each load. So net 2 per bag. I have 3. That’s 6.00.
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Old 01-01-2023, 05:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Fat Old Tired
I never really understood the whole tipping the van driver thing. If you think about it, we are all employees working for those above us. Pilots don't tip the TSA for allowing us through security or the gate agent for getting us all boarded up. The van driver taking us to the airport we operate from is really no different than any other employee we deal with. They drive us, we then fly the people in the plane, etc. The driver doesn't work directly for the airline, but they are contracted by them so it is essentially the same.
I throw a $20 to TSA every time I go through KCM. Also flip a $5 to the agent as I go down to the jet. You don’t???
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Old 01-01-2023, 05:26 AM
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Passengers need to start tipping me!
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Old 01-01-2023, 06:15 AM
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Originally Posted by ReadOnly7
My last two ID’s, my crew has waited at least 20 minutes EVERY single layover….and that’s not including the three times I got an Uber and had to expense it. Not only that……but our hotel desk is overseas now???
The SFO transpo is wretchedly incompetent.

Record your block in time. At block in +31 take a cab & expense it. If hotel has no rooms, walk to a 4-star hotel & again, expense it. If your transpo is late to pick up for return to airport, do not go to extraordinary lengths to push on time.

It’s not our job to fix the company’s failed responsibilities.
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Old 01-01-2023, 07:47 AM
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Originally Posted by JayRalstonSmith
I throw a $20 to TSA every time I go through KCM. Also flip a $5 to the agent as I go down to the jet. You don’t???
They don’t lug my bag. Also many are paid as “tip receiving employees” so are not making an hourly wage that’s even close to minimum wage.
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Old 01-01-2023, 07:56 AM
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Originally Posted by pangolin
They don’t lug my bag. Also many are paid as “tip receiving employees” so are not making an hourly wage that’s even close to minimum wage.
I’m pretty sure only waiters/ waitresses/maybe valet? Gets under min wage. Hotel shuttle drivers aren’t paid $2.13 per hr or whatever.
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Originally Posted by golfandflows
I’m pretty sure only waiters/ waitresses/maybe valet? Gets under min wage. Hotel shuttle drivers aren’t paid $2.13 per hr or whatever.
Well I know this is sometimes but not always true.
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