Originally Posted by
flyingfiddler
Just to give the latest of many, many stories, last week we had a Delta crew deadhead in with us going to the same hotel. I had to finish a write up in the logbook, so my F/O went ahead to let people know I'd be a few more minutes. I get out to find my F/O and no van, and he tells me that I missed them by 30 seconds, but that the mainline crew wouldn't wait at all. Typical Delta...
Couple things…
We have a Covid LOA…we aren’t allowed to ride the van with other airlines and in some cases our own FAs. The company is very strict on this. Hotels end up getting called over this and potentially losing contracts.
Our contract also says after 20 mins (yours is 30) that if we aren’t on the shuttle and leaving you can find alternative transportation. So if your DL deadhead crew didn’t know how long it was going to take (something you never provided in your response) they were probably just following the contract. Who knows they may have even had a 10 hour overnight. Which if they are staying at a similar hotel to 9E suggests that may be the case (but I don’t know based off the lack of information you provided)
Just my opinion but I don’t think you’re telling us all the facts and variables here. As you’ve said in other posts, your distaste for DL crews is obvious. You have a preconceived notion that all DL mainline crews are bad and are out to get you. That couldn’t be further from the truth. I’m not saying that the crew maybe was short sided in their decision to leave without your crew, but there’s other variables outside the things your barking about on here that your not privy to. Those variables could have been very well and probable the reason why, what happened, happened.