Originally Posted by
FODhopper
There seems to be some confusion over what it will take to get Wifi in the crew room. One management pilot said that the union has to request it first.
However the union notes that while a previous crew room grievance over crew room amenities was filed in 2012 and settled in 2014...the company has not addressed the current problem of not providing infrastructure for pilots to make company compelled updates to their EFBs.
The Union also noted that it should not fall to the association to solve this problem when this is an FAA approved program initiated by the company.
This, IMHO, has gone far beyond a comfort issue in the crew rooms. There are now enough mandatory company policies that involve internet access that they are obligated to provide it.
The MEC needs to make the initiative to get internet access into the crew rooms for the general use of the pilots to do what they want while they're between flights - that could be updating your flight time on Airlineapps.com, streaming a movie on Netflix, whatever.
The company should provide access to the intranet for the sole purpose of updating our iPads. Nothing more needed.