Originally Posted by
Zard
Not sure what’s defamatory about wanting industry standard hotel language. It’s a red line for me, but we will see how many other pilots think the same way.
1. When we block in, all I want to do is go to the hotel. I don’t need to wait 20 minutes before I start my walk to the curb where I can wait 20 more minutes to catch a van to a holiday inn by a mall.
2. Our work groups are different and have different needs when it comes to what we’d like in our hotels.
3. There’s already been one “clean kill” of a pilot’s career over a disagreement that escalated between an FA and a pilot. Sorry, but the risk vs reward of socializing with people I don’t know and having to defend my job from something taken out of context (even off the clock) is not worth it. The FA union was even advocating writing up pilots during COVID. I don’t come to work to make new friends…I’m here to work and get paid for my time away from my family and real friends.
This isn’t Herb’s airline and we aren’t hiring Herb’s employees anymore. No one in the people department is leading with love. I will do my absolute best to make sure FAs are looped in for reasons of safety and customer service. Outside any communications necessary to foster good crew resource management, I’ll be pleasant, polite, and laconic.
Thanks for being a hard worker and taking care of our customers.
I've gotta say that I agree with Zard on this issue.
Sadly, it has come to the point where a pilot will most definitely be assumed to be guilty (on nothing other than the word of a FA) until he spends all of his own savings to prove his innocence...Even When there is Video proving the FA's all submitted false statements, the pilot will still get the 'Clean Kill' treatment. False statements? Not a problem, as long as you aren't a pilot. You can keep your job. Pilot, you are fired.
VP of Inflight told classes to write up pilots.
President of TWU 556 told FA's to write up pilots.
Are all FA's a threat, obviously Not. But the risk is nowhere near the benefit.
It is over. Herb's airline was shot dead and thrown in the ditch.
A cursory look at a Risk Assessment matrix shows that a situation with a Low Frequency/Probability with Catastrophic Outcome is still a HIGH Risk.
No offense to VanillaWafer, but the dynamics have changed drastically at swa.
Separate Hotels NOW!