You pretty much nailed it. UAX flying is embarassing. It's pathetic to make our passengers walk 1000 ft to the F1 gates in pouring rain or snow through all the deice fluid and urea and then track all that stuff on our acft. The aisle on our plane looks like a white runway on a good snow day. I'm amazed they keep coming back the way they are treated. As a former XJT and now SKW, the acft were kept in much better shape with Continental. It the best you can do with no jetways and the new culture at UAL.

Eventually, we are supposed to start in-range info thru acars soon. I miss that with XJT. Too many radio calls to ops at the busiest times, especially when clearing runway 10 at M3 and the gate is right there. Surprised there aren't more taxi incidents.

So you guys getting paid to deice at ORD?????