Originally Posted by
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So in SEA, during Deice days, Ops or SOC has been telling pilots to keep the MCD open.
Of course, this means none of the crew gets paid except for the FA's after a rumored number of minutes.
What is yall's thoughts on all of this? Some CAs tell me that since the deice checklist requires MCD closed, they won't say they're ready until the door is closed...and if they won't close it up, then CA's will just deplane the plane back into the gate.
Thoughts?
Think AA tried that for one day in PHL a while back. Captains shut the door when they wanted to or didn’t board until they could depart… then someone in management realized having them hold the door open past departure time tanked their D+0 metric that their 16% bonuses were based on that experiment was over the next day.