Originally Posted by
buzzpat
Hey my brother and sister FNWA peeps,
What is up at DTW? I've been through there 4 times in the last month and the ground service sucks. Even got the attitude today when we were buttoned up, ready to push, and no paper. The ramp girl scolded me about asking for the final numbers prior to push. I understand that it may be a DAL/NWA culture thing. I used to think JFK was the worst station in the network. I like the DTW layover but those folks are painfully plodding. It would hurt me to move so slow.
Sounds about right, Buzz. I've always thought it was the UAW mentality in DTW that was responsible. I had a mechanic once threaten me when I helped an offline mechanic at an outstation do a gray box check on an autopilot. He downed the plane when it was fixed and pulled off all the airspeed bugs from the instruments to see if I would take it and then he'd report it.
Found the bugs on the ground outside the airplane. A NASAP followed and a few months later they all lost their jobs, from strike, not the NASAP.
Not a culture thing from my view, as I've never worked with a better bunch at most of the other stations. Imagine all the DTW crap and the old terminal. It was like "Escape from New York".