Originally Posted by
Herkflyr
Please do! As a south guy, I think that the DAL culture was superior to NWA's (in most of the touchy-feely ways) but aside from a perhaps unhealthy obsession with the rigidity of your SOPA/SMAC, I am getting the feeling that NWA's operational procedures were superior to most of DAL's.
I hope we take a few more of your operational policies and implement them.
Oh, and don't suggest to our FLOE (Flight Ops Engineering) that a lot of their products are sub-standard. They tend to be very touchy...probably because they have gotten so much flak over the years!
Herk, not sure where the description of SOPA/SMAC as rigid came from, its just an simple organized way of doing things in the aircraft without any loss of operational flexability. The crewmember can go from Douglas to Boeing and Airbus without learning a different culture...training becomes much more productive.