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HelloNewnan
While I agree, it's an impossible situation.
If you asked 100 people in training, at least 75 would say they want to be next to the training center. What are the alternatives? The area by the convention center? Great, train access, but there is absolutely nothing that way but hotels. There is nothing, and I mean nothing west or south of the airport but econo-box hotels and strip malls.
Fine, how about Buckhead, Midtown or Downtown? Ok, you'll be stuck in traffic from 30 to 45 minutes heading to the hotel about 18 hours of the day. Each of those locations have their own set of problems.
The only real solution is to move training out of ATL, which will never happen. Or you could try to go to training in SLC. The northies had an awesome setup...downtown St. Paul, 20 minutes to training that was outside the normal traffic congestion, but we sold that off as soon as they remodeled it.
Disagree. Plenty of better places to put us up in. They don't seem to mind busing us from up there for a rotation report do they?
It would be a small inconvenience for pickups, but safety wise I like that trade off. Someone is going to get hurt in that area we are in now. It's not just us, the FA's are there for training as well. That's a target rich environment. What are you going to say when someone is seriously injured (or worse) walking back to the hotel from the center? Is it worth someone's health and well being to sit in a van an extra 30 mins? IDK the answer. But the areas around the training center and GO buildings have deteriorated safety wise over the years.