Originally Posted by
brigadeaviator
I remember constantly flying into DFW and being on-time. However the rampers would do their best to drag their feet, wing walker would disappear, or purposely turn their backs to us until that A+15 min mark passed. GAs would always point the departure delays on the crew, yet never tell us so. It was a constant problem at that base, not sure if it ever improved?
That seems to be the current problem with DGS at many big airports nowadays, especially in DTW and MSP. Sometimes they're standing in position as you taxi toward the gate, then as you're turning on to the gate line, suddenly they huddle up to "brief". I don't know why they don't point and say "You walk that wing and you walk the other wing". Nothing will improve until they start holding those idiots accountable for playing stupid games and not doing the job they were hired to do.