Originally Posted by
EWRflyr
There is much about that statement I agree with, but just a correction:
The first (30) EMB175s announced a few weeks ago are being bought by United. These (40) planes are being bought by Skywest, as part of a 100 aircraft order with 100 options.
SkyWest, Inc. Announces Agreement With Embraer For 100 Firm And 100 Options E175 Regional Jets - Yahoo! Finance
I just completed a trip where we were supposed to have "contractually compliant crew meals" on board all but one of our flights, per the meal matrix posted on the Flight Operations website. Not one meal was boarded this trip and the caterers didn't have a clue what we were talking about. That's fine. I just ended up expensing a nice reasonable dinner of MY choosing on each overnight. Sorry for the drift....
Thanks for the clarification. It shows they can move quickly on what they choose. Put in a claim for a taxi in mid March, got it paid this week. Online expense reporting with uploading of receipts could easily be available to us because
it already exists on Flying Together. It's called uSource and is how
everyone else in the company files expense reports--except pilots. It is one stop for filing, uploading, tracking, and reimbursement. The logon info is the same as the Flying Together logon. All they have to do is authorize us to use it. But here we are filling out forms, printing documents of trip IDs and meal charts, with no way to know if it's progressing to approval or lost on the way. It's similar to mail-in rebates. Some won't do it due to forgetfulness or laziness, some don't track it so if it's lost you won't know. It's a business maxim that when you rope-a-dope the process you decrease the payout.
uSource:
https://flyingtogether.ual.com/web/c...ID=Procurement