Originally Posted by
hockeypilot44
I have worked for three different airlines and this is the only one where I have ever found myself at a layover with no hotel assigned and no way to get a hold of anyone without sitting on hold for an hour. The irony in this is that this is by far the best company I have ever worked for. That tells me that these situations should not happen. Our system needs fixed. The company that runs crew accommodations needs to be replaced, and these jobs need to be brought in house.
Last month, ended up in D.C. @ midnight with no hotel during an IROP. No way to get crew accommodations... no hotels to be found... finally hopped a hotel bus to crystal city and walked door to door asking for two rooms... ended up putting $800 on my credit card for mine and my FO's rooms.
Wrote it up and told Chief next day, I will never push again without rooms on the rotation... no more promises that it will be done by the time we get there.
Turned down 3 late night GS offers last Friday because I was not about to repeat the above. (From what I heard about this after, sounds like I made the right call. Btw, all 3 flights cancelled due to lack of pilots.)
They need to fix this crew tracking/accommodation problem ASAP!