Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
I fly the airbus for Delta. We hit up ROA, BNA, FAY, even have CRW! Those legs are short enough to where you're not that far away from food back at the hub if need be.
So, yes I do fly to those places.
Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
I don't think you read my post, haha. Those legs are so short that you're no more than an hour away from whatever hub is calling you back home.
I'll bring a sandwich for day 1... that's about it. Plenty of healthy eating options in the hubs.
And there in lies your ignorance.
When one is flying eight legs from Houston to BPT or VCT or DRT or CLL (none of which have food and even if they did, it is a 15 minute turn), the turns back at IAH are about 30 minutes. Figure the time it takes to walk to the ops center, get the release or do the walk around, take a leak, and get back into one's seat, there is NO time to eat. Figure six or eight legs, that poor soul is looking at 10-12 hours without a break. And with legs that are less than an hour, cruise time (
a time when we are permitted to eat) is often less than 10 minutes.
There have been many days when my crew and I had no time to even go up to the concourse to choose a meal let alone eat it. Heck, I even had to tell several FAs that I do NOT expect her to take a leak in the porta potty that is our "lav".
I'll take a delay so that my crew can pee in a flush toilet and wash their hands in a sink. Yeah, it can be that bad.
I used to fly really fast to get to SHV so I could run up and hit the vending machine that sold ice cream. That was one of the rare times that I, as a CA, could get a treat for my crew mid day.
Maybe one day when you have flown old fashioned puddle jumper routes you will understand.
Until then, **** off.