Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
We do? There's not a single thing left of the way we operated at NWA. Not paperwork, manuals, flight plans, performance...nothing. What hodgepodge integration could there be when you don't integrate anything of the other company? The AWABS system that we fNWA guys all learned was the same AWABS system you guys were using before the merger. Our training memos stated that clearly along with telling us how great it works. After the merger, that SAME SYSTEM was so jacked up, that management has gone to this new band-aid to fix the bad on time arrival statistics.
So I'll state it again: If the old AWABS system worked so flawlessly before the merger, why is it broken now even at bases, planes and pilots that were identical before the merger? Could it be that the system was badly flawed before as well as after? That was my point. If I'm still missing the boat, I trust you'll let me know.
Carl
Yep, still missing the boat. It is in no way the same stuff we used before the merger... My manuals were all sorts of different colors after the integration process was complete due to all the changes to them.
You are correct that it is
mostly former DAL stuff with NWA stuff mixed in as well as some new stuff. The integration with the former NWA planes, pilots, gate agents (along with them learning the system) has been relatively smooth but still a wreck in the final product.
The old AWABS worked fantastic... still did right up until the change to push without WDR with the former DAL crews combined with former DAL gate agents. With the mixing of groups it became more and more a mess due to lack of training, lack of reception to change, and assumptions that non fDAL would make the same assumptions that we used to naturaly do due to long accepted techniques.
Having used MGL extensively prior to using the "pure" DAL AWABS, I vastly preferred AWABS.