Originally Posted by
m3113n1a1
Anyone else tired of Delta just completely melting down every IROP? I understand this was a big hail event and there is of course going to be major disruption, but the way things melt down completely here is embarrassing. Why do the phone lines always go down? Isn't dispatching via unrecorded cell phone a FAR violation? Why does it take hours and hours to get through to crew accomodations to then wait even longer to not be assigned a hotel? Why haven't we invested in better technology or hired more schedulers for IROPS? Instead, flight ops has been blowing money on failed uniforms and obsessing over APU usage and hat wearing, tracking commutes, and harassing people for sick calls.
The amount of unnecessary money lost during these IROPS dwarfs any possible savings from not running APUs and roasting our passengers.
Nope. Not our dog, not our problem to solve. There are plenty of tools we've given them they can use to help but they refuse to use them. You can't control mother nature, but you can control reliability of your phone lines and computer systems. This is at least the third time this year the phones to OCC have gone kaput (2 were not even related to IROP - they just "happened"). It's not our job to fix their problems. Let it ride, pick up a greenie or IA and make some hay.