Originally Posted by
Timbo
Or....you could show some initiative and tell the Captain you're going out front for a minute to see if they got everyone on.
Look, I know things get real busy just before pushback, so I always talked to the gate agents before I got on the jet, and I would ask them at that time, "Are we going to be full?" And, "Are the non-revs going to get on?" And, "We got any jumpseaters?" If it looked like we were going to be full I would ask them to please get everyone on and if there's going to be a delay, "Put it on me."
Never had a problem with my FO leaving to go check, last minute, either.
Some of you guys make it a lot harder than it has to be!
“put the delay on me” doesn’t really work anymore the way you think it does. agents still have to hit their timelines, and flight crew delays operate in parallel to that. the data-driven world measures things separately instead of on a single time line. an agent holding for nonrevs is still going to miss their metrics. wish it weren’t so, but we can’t offer the get-out-of-jail-free card we used to.
the parking brake still forces their hand, of course