Originally Posted by
ilinipilot
show they care about the pilots.
Some ideas I have
1. survey the pilots again and the top bases with the most commuters make the lines 50% commutable.
2. provide free hotel rooms a night for pilots
3. find out where the most pilots commute to from that base and assign overnights in those cities to that base. ie a lot of ATL commuters will be from MEM so assign 320 trips with MEM overnights.
I know this will never happen but i believe it is in the best interest of the company to make commuting as painless as possible.
Dont forget just in time for summer the company is pulling seats out to put in econo comfort.
I for one am getting tired of hearing marketing drives this airline. There is no reason they cannot make our lives easier by swapping out fleets. in most of our cities we can interchange a 737, m88/90 and an airbus and we need to start doing that so our commuters are taken care of.
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I live in base, and choose not to commute to a base with better trips. What are you going to ask the company for those who aren't commuters?
Here are some ideas:
Maybe a cab service from my house so I don't have to make the 30 minute drive back and forth.
Free hotel room in base once in a while for a night on the town with the spouse, with per diem of course
Special crew room for non-commuters so commuters don't use up all the chairs sleeping from their commute.
But seriously, there are people at this airline who don't commute. I imagine you're frustrated but by asking for special treatment, you're taking stuff away from those who live in base.