Originally Posted by
Timbo
Looks like the 4th floor Cubicle Captains on high mins are still hard at work, coming up with cool new words and trying to justify their jobs.
Atilla, D-0, and now this nonsense.
That'll fix it. Wait, what was the problem again?
Oh yeah, we were the most on time airline. So let's change it!
I've always tried to help the gate agents and ground crew show the flight out on time, if we are buttoned up and ready to go, waiting on the RJ behind us to move, so we can push.
But now, I guess I'll just wait until we are actually in motion, moving backwards, before I turn on the light.
I'll bet in a month or two, after D-0 becomes D+10, they'll have to put out another letter, to undo the damage this one is going to cause.
See?
That's Job Justification. And it keeps the folks in Manual Services busy as well.
Oh, and everyone else can blame the Pilots!
It's Win-Win!
You know, when the gate agents and rampers realize we are no longer their friends for D0, and even when they do things right we still end up late, well let's just say I'd hate to be a nonrev having to wait to D-10 to have seats released.
They seriously won't have time to accommodate the employee traveling with a young family in tow because the threat of them taking more than 3 min from being notified to seated with strollers and bags stowed and cargo doors shut is just too much. Or to go through the list of all of those who lazily and obnoxiously check in online but never show.
I guess those kinds of decisions aren't made by people who worry about traveling on an S2 or S3.
But I fully intend to comply on every flight. I just hope others do the same. Not too long ago we pulled into OKC and I did my flow and hit the beacon only to sit and wait for ten minutes while they tended to the jetway losing power. Man I heard it from the Captain, the A line and the two in the back when we got to the van for taking money from them. So I'm kind of over this game anyhow, although I think the new game will be miserable. I just wish we would focus on A0 more than D0. I'd rather get things done right and be A0 than screw employees over and be D0.