Sliceback

Wasn't it Arlington or Grand Prairie??? Checked google.maps and it's stuck between Euless, Irving, Grand Prairie and Arlington. Supposedly AA demanded, and got, a better name/zip code concession. DFW Airport sounds better than Euless or Grand Prairie. Kind of hard going from Manhattan to "where? Euless?!?!"

Departing DFW to the south and 2 miles south there's an east/west highway. 1/4 mile to the west is another n/s highway. Flight Academy, FA Learning Center, Central (?) Res building, Ft. Worth center, and old AA HDQ sit on the SW corner of that interchange.

New (1990's?) AMR hdq is just south of the e/w highway at the end of the DFW access road. It's the old Greater Southwest Airport and the main road used to be a runway. About 1/4-1/2 mile SE of the Flight Academy.

AirbusFO

So the Airways guys have to pronounce it "Merkin" from now on...I kid...

As far as tha Adopt and Go policy--I agree with it wholeheartedly! (don;t like parts of it--but agree with it) For the US Boeing Guys and the Merkin Bus guys the changes are odd and seem silly at times...I realize that from The pilot down to the ramp and every single functional office in the company has the same concerns and complaints--There are hundred of thousands of details in every office that have to take place to complete this merger--If they were to stop at each one to determine and develop the "best practice" for each detail It will take 20 years to get this merger complete..I would rather them take the bigger group--put what they have in place and move to the next thing. My personal responisiblity in this is to retain the Old publications and capture the US Airways FOM best practices (V1-5 anyone? as an example) and in a year or 2--when the majority of the merger is complete and the responsible parties can actually start looking at things other than the merger... THEN submit what I think are the best practices that were lost in the rush to merge and advocate to get them put back in...I am ready to join up with my Merkin bros and start kicking the ****** out of the competition!!

AF

DrivinTheDash

This topic is one that can prove that those of us at US aren't all just afraid to change from the US way... I don't know about the older guys - and i'm sure the FAs will convulse the first time they have a pairing that isn't all in eastern time - but I know an awful lot of pilots who find the whole thing ridiculous. I, for one, look forward to local time pairings!

Personally, it makes a lot of sense to me for one person to fill out the hotel sheet. I don't care whether it's the A, as on US international, the FO - me - as is typical on domestic trips, or the captain, as happens every now and again... I just think it makes sense to not make everyone take a turn at the counter, and makes the whole process go a little bit quicker.

As for printing pairings, I almost always do it, but I think it's become pretty silly. I personally don't really need one, as I have all of the flight info on my phone. The only thing I use it for, if I have one, is to write down our "Fit for duty" numbers that have to be sent in each leg now. While I don't mind printing them for the FAs or other pilots, I typically find that I only give out about half of the copies I make on average. Sometimes, everyone needs one; other times, only one or two. I also find that, especially on international trips, it's not uncommon for the FO and IRO to each print out all 9 copies, and sometimes the captain does the same. Even if all of the FAs needed one, you're left with 10 spares to toss!

Dolphinflyer

Obviously a low priority thingy, but down the road we should push for the company to automatically transmit the data to the hotel near the estimated arrival time, or some method with CCI to hotlink a transmission to the Hotel with the names arrival departing the jet. Seems like the hotel would like the waiting time reduced also.

Who reads those chicken scratch things anyways? They usually look like 5 Doctors each wrote down a perscription.

Twin Wasp

There was a military field where the old airport was during WW2. In the late 1940's, long before AA showed up, Ft. Worth annexed land along a railroad track to get to the site. The old GSW airport was supposed to be a regional airport but I've heard Dallas backed out when the terminal was put on the west side.

The "City of DFW Airport" is a creation to get around jurisdiction issues caused by the airport being in four different cities (Coppell, Euless, Grapevine and Irving) and two counties. The Postal Service also considers it a separate city for mail going to the post office at the south end of the airport. Ya'lls mailing address is a PO box at that post office but 75261 is shared with everyone getting mail at that post office.

There'll be a test at the end of the week.

aapilotguy

Won't somebody please think about the tree huggers!

aapilotguy

Ok here's one that's on my why do we do it this way list. CAs do all briefings (takeoff and now approach briefing with RC5).

crzipilot

Don't forget the requirement to state who the PF is?!?!? Uhmmmm....who has the airplane?

450knotOffice

That's on the Backside of the US checklist. PF...really?

Ok, fine. So, I'M the Pilot Flying (Duh), blah, blah, blah, 7.5 degrees nose up max, blah, blah, blah...

Samuelson

But in each case, the captain has authority to delegate that task to the FO per FM1.