Originally Posted by BiffleBalls

I think the most telling point of this thread is that we feel we have to post stuff on this forum to elevate it. I have raised issues with the director of safety and the airbus program manager that they completely agreed with and then did nothing about. Trying to make change around here is impossible. Nobody listens. It's going to take an accident to really motivate management to take our concerns seriously, I've resigned myself to that. Having our most junior crews doing legs in the middle of the night that - as mentioned above - require a route qualification at airlines who actually take safety seriously instead of paying it lip service like Frontier management does consistently is one of my biggest concerns and I was given the "yeah yeah, we know" treatment when I brought it up after I flew some of those trips. Nothing changed. I have written ASAPs, I have made phone calls, I have talked face to face with management types of all stripes. Nothing. I even talked with one of our FAA inspectors that I ran into - "We're looking into some things" is what I got. My experience with the base chiefs has been pretty positive except for the DEN bas chief, who is completely off her rocker. The fact that she is still in her position after all the crazy dung she has pulled is beyond me, and further erodes the faith the entire pilot group has in SC, BL, and anyone else in the Emerald Palace. She was the architect of the hat and jacket stupidity. I'll bet her name comes up quite often in the exit interviews they say are conducted when people leave this place, I know they sure do in mine when I fly with those who are leaving or working on it. The Purdue kids laugh at her when she goes on idiotic rants about how only senior pilots can wear striped ties and a whole host of other nonsense she elevates in her "Welcome to Frontier" rants to new hires. Have you ever noticed how many of them wear striped ties? It's an intentional middle finger to her and the rest of those who put her there, they're all just too disconnected to get the joke. If management is concerned about safety or pilot retention they need to take a long look in the mirror.