Pilot shortage: AA cancelled 100's of flights
07-11-2021 | 02:55 AM
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Maybe I’ve just been lucky, but I’ve been seeing a lot less of this. Observing customer/gate agent interactions, as well as my own, they’re usually pretty pleasant. Maybe just my experience.
07-12-2021 | 03:11 PM
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Its everywhere. Back in the day, Delta had “APU Sherriffs” who were retired guys who just had to find something else to do, so they’d confront crews on APU usage.
07-12-2021 | 06:41 PM
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07-12-2021 | 06:51 PM
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Reminds me of a non rev I took on a Delta 737, will never forget it. It was so damn hot inside that thing sitting at the gate that people were taking off layers and still wiping the sweat from their heads. After a while I thought the APU must be out since it's so hot, uncomfortably so, that there's no way they'd choose to leave it off. Well about 5 minutes before push here comes the APU. You m..... f......ers could have been running the AC this whole time???
08-03-2021 | 02:10 PM
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Seems like we’re canceling a huge number of flights yesterday and today. Anyone have the skinny on what’s going on? And god I really hope the answer isn’t simply a thunderstorm in DFW. 500+ flights canceled yesterday. Working on close to the same today.
08-04-2021 | 02:50 AM
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There was a TSRA that sat over the field in MIA for close to an hour yesterday. That probably didn’t help.
08-04-2021 | 06:03 AM
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Management is running the pilot and FA schedules pretty tight at AA. Building schedules with duty hours and block hours right up against the limits. With any sort of delay, the crews time out.
This is 100% the "cost savings" attempts by AA management that are failing miserably. It might look good on paper, but it isn't going to work in the real world.
08-04-2021 | 01:37 PM
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Short on rampers, gate agents, crew meals, hotel rooms, FAs, pilots, etc. Throw some weather in the mix and the operation implodes.
Wasn't it just a few weeks ago that Parker laid out the goal of running the best operation ever this summer?
Wasn't it just a few weeks ago that Parker laid out the goal of running the best operation ever this summer?
08-05-2021 | 01:30 PM
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he must have wrote that plan while he was riding in the back on a flight from PHX-DFW last week with no APU...its a true story and was posted by the local DFW reps, unbelievable till I read it.
08-07-2021 | 12:33 AM
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Out of curiosity, at what stage of a shortage. Would AA, all the other large ones have to begin to look further afield into Europe for recruitment. Is that a possibility in the months years ahead with the numbers currently being reported?
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