Originally Posted by
Macjet
You're doing it wrong. We'd push 15 minutes early leaving 20 paying pax and 3 jumpseaters behind so that our contract gate agents will get their bonus and we can brag about our A14 times on the High Five channel. AH-mah-REE-yoh baby!
Sadly enough, I was right seat on a trip where this happened
Plane pulled up in the gate next to us right as the gate agent showed up, with about 30 no-shows. CA asked about them, was told they were transfers from the plane that just pulled in. CA asked gate agent to open up boarding again, gate agent and entire supervisor chain through ops refused. We still had a cargo door open so it wouldn't have even added more than 5 minutes to push time, so CA called the company.
Company said push, leaving the transfers behind.
Cargo door closed sometime later, and we still pushed 5-10 min late, with about 30 sad faces in the terminal watching us until we pushed.
But we were something like second in the industry for on-time performance that month, so high fives for the company execs and 2 million buck payraise for our next CEO. Pretty clear where the priorities are
Quite the contrast from SWA.