Originally Posted by
Turbosina
So after reading all this I decided to play it super-safe and paid for a ticket to come in the night before my 5-day reserve stint here in lovely IAH. I've tried to APU anything and everything, but haven't succeeded in getting a single pickup to work. And to my amazement -- there are literally no 737 FO IAH trips in open time for today, and only one for tomorrow. I even called CS and begged for a trip, any trip...nothing doing.
You would think that on the busiest travel week of the year, in one of our biggest bases, there'd be OT trips. Does nobody call out sick on holidays, to avoid losing the holiday pay?
So now the questions are:
• What's fun to do in Houston? (is this like asking "what's a nice street to explore in Newark"?)
• Why is the sleep room temperature set at minus seventy Fahrenheit?
• Which airport hotel is least likely to involve a run-in with tweakers in the parking lot?
Ahhhh...Houston.
look at the pool display. The 4th is green because of holiday pay. Everyone else is gobbling up the trips because of it. You only get the holiday pay if you actually OPERATE a trip on the day. Short calls, FSB, sick call, don’t count.
the CPO room has always had issues with temp balancing. The whole area was like ice blocks, then they had it fixed once, then it was 140 for a week. Now it’s…almost tolerable?
There are several hotels on JFK that people stay at. It’s…ok enough.