Originally Posted by
Omniscient
Do us a favor, stop doing the jobs of others. You are seriously making yourself the ramp supervisor by going down to remind them to do their job and hook up air and power? I guess this is why I don't get it, I dont do their job, only mine.
APU is on at the gate, once I see the ground power go green, thats step 1. Once I look out my window and see the air being hooked, thats step two. I turn the bleed off and once I feel cool air coming from the ground unit, then and only then do I turn the APU off. If all of this cant be accomplished in the 10 minutes it takes to shut down the engines, checklists, and pack bag, the APU with bleed stays on when I leave the plane for pax comfort as well as the FAs.
We are over a year into this new APU savings program and the weather is getting hotter. If they (the company) still cant get rampers to get air and power hooked up as soon as the plane comes in, there is no hope for it getting any better, anytime soon
Originally Posted by
Omniscient
Don’t forget that 25% of the executive bonus payout is based on fuel savings.
So Bendo, Teddy, Tom, Laurie, and gang, are counting you!
Originally Posted by
Ed Force One
APU on as I pull into the gate. A life may depend on it.
APU off once power and air get hooked up. Our profit sharing depends on it.
(Half of that I believe is great advice)
Originally Posted by
Macjet
Exactly. I'll play nice and shutdown the APU but only after cool air is coming in. I won't ask the FA's to do their job in 80+F or leave the same for the next crew.
If you are not part of the solution.....
I don't leave the plane before power and air are hooked up. I go down and ask for the ramp supervisor, I explain that we are supposed to keep the APU off till 10 min prior, if after the second time I go down telling them not to disconnect, and still they disconnect the air (25 minutes prior) I send an email with gate number and time to fuelburn@spirit (and here is the reply I got within the hour:
Thu 5/9/2019 7:55 PM
Hello ,###
Thanks for your message – I have shared this with my station leadership at PIT for corrective action,
I also send that email every single time the air can't keep up with the OAT. I make $210/flight hour, so about $150/hr in uniform, they make $12/hr. Our job is seniority based, they can go flip burgers at the King tomorrow for the same pay/benefits. Who should be more invested to keep this company profitable?
If you really think you are affecting their bonus think again, they will just outsource something else for short term profit gain, and blame the economy once that affects our performance.
And while I am ranting:
I can remember most here complaining about our operational performance, "but if they would just pay us what we deserve" everything would get better. The contract passed, most (by far) voted in favor, so get your ass in gear and do your job and every one else's to prove we deserve what we make. /Rant over
So why are we still industry leading in fume events?