Originally Posted by
seafeye
It's not Doom and Gloom..
.its just reality. People talk about how bad the schedules are getting, how bad the hotels are getting...
Thing is, they have been this way all along. The only way to get a better quality of life is to find another airline to work for. The union, chief pilots all have good intentions but our management doesn't care. They are happy making decent money in Ohio and wouldn't do a damm thing to change it. If PSA gets more airplanes or better routes or better schedules it will be because it was handed to our management. They work their 9-5 m-f and that is all. No extra effort. Our scheduling dept is reactive, our contract allows the inefficiencies to go on, our dispatch is totally clueless. (OK not all but some...K.H.?) Until Doug Parker and his management group take some responsibility for the PSA management we are stuck in a rut.
The lines were not that bad before the furlough, and they only changed because the person who built the lines no longer works at PSA. Instead of hiring someone new they outsourced the job to PDT. Ask people at PDT these are what there lines look like. I don't know what your talking about with the hotels, in the last year the they have gotten better and I had not flown with anyone who disagrees with that. Unless the hotels have gone to heck since Sept when I was furloughed. One of the problems is that the pilots complain about everything. The hotel in CAK is not that bad. It has a lot of things within walking distance and still people whine about it. The hotel in DAB is nice right in the middle of the main drag on the mainland side of town, and people are complaining because they were not consulted before it was chosen. There is still room for improvement but at least it is working in the right direction. You are right about the contract. There is a lot of loose language and management takes advantage of it every chance they get. These are some of the things the negotiating committee needs to address for the new contract. There is always room for improvement at any airline or any job for that matter.