Originally Posted by
Justdoinmyjob
At Delta, we get our final numbers over the ACARS, but at the gate, and we still pushback on time. We even get updated numbers as the aircraft is being loaded. I can't imagine what takes the AA load planners and dispatchers so long to generate the numbers.
I don't know either. I've heard that we do not use the bag location scanners. But they should have our bag count as soon as the cargo doors are closed.
Then they walkie talkie the #'s to ops or crew chief, then they enter it in the computer, it goes to loads in Tulsa, Tulsa minimizes their online poker game briefly, looks at the load #'s, then restores their online poker game & plays 2-4 hands, then minimizes, then restores the loads page & takes a cell phone call from home, then enters SEND.
Meanwhile, ATC and all other airlines are taxiing around us.
But our management thinks it's a great system.
We are so 1961 technology.