Originally Posted by
El Peso
Seems like we’re canceling a huge number of flights yesterday and today. Anyone have the skinny on what’s going on? And god I really hope the answer isn’t simply a thunderstorm in DFW. 500+ flights canceled yesterday. Working on close to the same today.
Power outage at the fuel farm in DFW meant that no airplanes could refuel for a few hours. Also, with the new system for scheduling rampers in DFW, many are calling in sick (in large groups) which means it can take 2+ hours to get the bags off of an airplane once it lands. Rampers are having to work twice as hard for the same pay. Not going to happen.
Management is running the pilot and FA schedules pretty tight at AA. Building schedules with duty hours and block hours right up against the limits. With any sort of delay, the crews time out.
This is 100% the "cost savings" attempts by AA management that are failing miserably. It might look good on paper, but it isn't going to work in the real world.