Originally Posted by
Denny Crane
I'm with you, I do not rush and that is my point. (And I think that's the point of the cd.) It's just not the impression I've gotten lately with the direction about gate latency and trying to shorten our taxi times lately.
Don't get me wrong, I think the extra 30 seconds I take by going step by step is well worth it and I won't change the way I do things. (Especially since I now think the cd backs me up!)
Denny
I haven't seen the newest CQ CD, but when they came out with that Gate Latency nonsense I just laughed. How many times have I sat at the gate for 45 minutes while they removed a bag for a customer who didn't show up...
Just last week we were ready to go in the cockpit when the agent shut the door 10 minutes early, stranding a non-rev outside, in the window, we could see her waving at us. We still had all 3 cargo doors open, so I called the tug driver to ask how much longer.
He said, "It'll be another 20 minutes, minimum."
I then called Passenger Assist, and told them to find the agent, and open the door, and put the non-rev on, NOW!
It took 10 minutes of back and forth, arguing, while all 3 cargo doors were still open, but they finally got a red coat to open the door and put the non-rev on, and they finally got the cargo doors closed, 15 minutes later. So we pushed about 30 minutes late, had 180 kt tailwind across the pond, and 13 hours later, landed in Dubai an hour early.
SD can take that gate latency crap and shove it. I'll do it at my own pace, or SD can come down the jetway and fly it himself.
The nitwits who write these memos live in cubicles and rarely turn a wheel, they risk nothing when they go to work on the 4th floor. They are only concerned with justifying their jobs by coming up with some new "Metric" to measure us with.