Originally Posted by
KC10 FATboy
Oh, one last thing.
I've been to f-NWA hubs pre-SOC and post-SOC. Just curious, is it normal to have to wait 3-5 minutes at the gate for the ground crew to get into position, or are they having a work slow down against the f-DAL jets?
No, I'm not being arrogant, disrespectful, mean spirited, or trying to tarnish our red-tail breatheren, because God knows DAL has JFK (what a nightmare).
If you are referring to MSP, I had a significant issue there a couple of weeks ago and it took 45 minutes to get in to a gate. Our gate was occupied so they said they found another and that it should be pushing any moment as the jet way was off of it, 20+ minutes go by sitting on the taxiway and we finally were given a different gate (because we found out later that aircraft at the gate wasn't pushing, it was RON
), when we got a gate nobody wanted to park us. 15 minutes later a crew came out, we parked and they left without opening any cargo door. Just gone. The Captain complained to everyone we could on the radio and in the gate house but to no avail.
But like you said KC10, but DALS has JFK and when the DALN crews start flying in there they'll realize why we want the place leveled. As to MSP I think it has something to do with the Delta-S metal only being allowed to fly out of a few gates in MSP. We're one airline, open up MSP. DTW has been really good so far and of course has the nicest terminal of all although I think DTW ground has an attitude problem (even back in my Coex days we'd say that). MEM I guess is like MSP but I haven't experienced any problems.