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Old 04-23-2019, 08:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Varks View Post
I would suggest hiring the person who runs operations at Spirit.
That's the funniest thing I've read on here all week!
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Old 04-23-2019, 06:20 PM
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5 days to recover from a thunderstorm is a bit excessive.

I've had several occasions over the last 6 months where, under no circumstances, should we have been running a full operation into a certain hub, yet we did. The results were exactly as you'd expect.
Dynamic ramp personnel staffing brought you by Mr. Isom. Can’t wait till he’s our CEO......it’s gonna be “great”..... This is also the same person who says we don’t understand why D-10 is so important to the operation. Yeah, the operation of his and the other EXEC’s bank accounts. Read the 10-K. It’s easy to see why their bonuses are based on A+14 and why D-10 is SO IMPORTANT.....with 14 on the backside, 10 on the front and how over blocked we are......it sure makes them meeting their bonus structure matrix much easier to attain, even when we are number 8 in the industry. Just sayin.



This place is like a fat kid running in flip flops on the beach daily....it’s only a matter time till the inevitable....but it’s sure fun to watch it happen....kinda

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Old 04-24-2019, 04:55 AM
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This place is like a fat kid running in flip flops on the beach daily....it’s only a matter time till the inevitable....but it’s sure fun to watch it happen....kinda

Honestly that’s about what it is over here (Nk). This past weekend we had a huge meltdown over a few storms. To the point that we cx flights for 3/4 days to try and catch up (“regain operational control”) and find crews. The suggestion was to email crew scheduling because the hold times were so long. I really don’t know how we beat you.



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Old 04-24-2019, 07:51 AM
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Originally Posted by flyingpuma1 View Post
Honestly that’s about what it is over here (Nk). This past weekend we had a huge meltdown over a few storms. To the point that we cx flights for 3/4 days to try and catch up (“regain operational control”) and find crews. The suggestion was to email crew scheduling because the hold times were so long. I really don’t know how we beat you.



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Part of it is meeting expectations...

When you fly Spirit, you expect LOW fares, and nothing else. No food, no IFE, no Wifi, etc

When you fly AA you expect for an incremental fare increase to get some IFE, food, wifi etc

Just like the old days when SWA would always have the best "service" yet never had much to serve except safe flight from A to B.

If a legacy is going to charge much more and serve food, have IFE, etc they better do their best to get it right, otherwise everyone is just ticked off about the "lousy service" when the food was bad, the IFE didn't work, the wifi was broken, etc....
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Part of it is meeting expectations...



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Excellent point.



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Very good perspective.
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Old 04-24-2019, 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted by flyingpuma1 View Post
Honestly that’s about what it is over here (Nk). This past weekend we had a huge meltdown over a few storms. To the point that we cx flights for 3/4 days to try and catch up (“regain operational control”) and find crews. The suggestion was to email crew scheduling because the hold times were so long. I really don’t know how we beat you.



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I love it. Company needs you to help them run the operation (same here). It now falls
upon us to help them salvage the operation by leaning forward to “help” (or bending over basically). I love these “promoted through the ranks” middle manager who have zero business being in middle management but will claim discrimination or bias if they are fired. So now they want you emailing them cause they are too busy to answer phones........except they aren’t too busy to respond to emails? A$$hats
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