Pilot shortage: AA cancelled 100's of flights

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07-11-2021, 02:55 AM

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El Peso

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Originally Posted by dera

Makes a difference if the one agent wasn't a legacy US/AA hAAte agent.

Just like you say. UAL sucked before, so did Delta. New management changed that quick.

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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Originally Posted by nAAtive

Middle management at AA is predominantly still legacy AA. They are the backbone of the suckiness. Clipboards and vests? Yup

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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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.

My point is it’s legacy AA middle management that is the issue. Nothings changed since 1999.

07-12-2021, 06:51 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.

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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El Peso

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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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Originally Posted by El Peso

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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FlyGuy2021

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Originally Posted by El Peso

Power outage at the fuel farm in DFW meant that no airplanes could refuel for a few hours. Also, with the new system for scheduling rampers in DFW, many are calling in sick (in large groups) which means it can take 2+ hours to get the bags off of an airplane once it lands. Rampers are having to work twice as hard for the same pay. Not going to happen.

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?

08-05-2021, 01:30 PM

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Dobbs18

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Originally Posted by AAL24

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?