Originally Posted by
DAWGS
The other side of the story about BWI I have heard is they do not have enough full time employees. Many ready reserves which have already timed out for the year. This is not just a station manager's fault, poor management all the way up. Communication is not taking place somewhere or the company is just refusing to provide enough full-time positions. I heard we have seven full time ramp positions and the rest ready reserve. If that is true, it doesn't seem to be a recipe for even RA to run a successful station.
If that is true then the slow down is intentional, which is kind of what I thought. They can probably justify it in their minds as a cry for staffing help but the problem is you can look out there and see them not doing anything and know they're not working period. And I bet the company isn't buying off on it.
Because when all of the equipment is pulled off both planes for over half an hour while you watch it from the taxiway then they're not short staffed.
the best part is when they don't answer their phones and not even dispatch can get a hold of them.