Originally Posted by
BoredwLife
There is no increase efficiency for the company that I can see. As pilots we like to tote that it is a mutual benefit but its not true. We have a show time of 45 min prior to departure, if that was lowered to 30 minutes
because we got KCM maybe it could be a benefit to the company but I still don't see how they make more money shaving 15 min off a show time rather than paying for KCM.
We are paid to show up :45 before departure, at the crew room, in base, to do our job. If we all did that, there would most certainly be a benefit for the company to get KCM and EFB's. But instead, we are sackless, and allow ourselves to work for free.
We go through security on our own time, rather than on the company's time. Yep - come to work early, check your e-mail, file jepps, check v-files, etc. Rather than depart late, we file the jepps in-flight, even though the MIA FSDO has gone after our pilots for doing that. Rather than depart late, we cut in front of all the paying passengers in the security line, because 45 minutes is not enough time to do everything that we are required to do before the first flight of a trip, let alone to do it and then clear a security line that is backed up around the terminal.
If we started taking delays because of the Jepp revisions and other paperwork we we had to file and review before going through security, we might get EFB's. If we started taking delays because we got held up in security, we might get KCM.
The company has no reason to get EFB's or KCM because we have shown them that there is no need to. Another Jepp revision, another long security line . . . BOHICA!