my mind has been blown reading what those aa guys are saying about the Jumpseat. They have no clue about the benefits of this beyond great tool and they are crying that they dont want it. I feel like we are offering a kid a big bag of candy and the kid is having a temper tantrum about having to take it.
I was far more impressed with aa from the outside looking in.
Yikes!
Mind. Blown.

 

Dammit, JP, I had to wade through 7 pages of that thread to figure out who you were.

TV (the guy on the 76 forum asking about scanned foldouts)_

 

Heh. It's going both ways. You are responsible for my having to follow a new flowchart for the logbook. I HATE FLOWCHARTS

 

Right on TV!!

Ps 7576 is a good dude. I'm sure he'll out himself here too.

 

Flow charts?! we have flow charts? Hmmm...will have to look into that. AHAH....since the new procedures I feel like I've gone into retirement and just sit around. Kinda nice in some ways.....but also with the new procedures...babysitting procedures have increased on our side.

 

It's quite the culture shock at first but you get used to it eventually and before long you realize that you are amongst a dang fine pilot group that will drop everything to help you out.

The jumpseat issue is a sore issue right now, no different than it was for the AW pilots. I see both sides of the argument. Still on the fence. But hey, you can't expect a group to just accept a radical change like that after they've been doing their own thing for 50+ years. Of course it's going to cause friction.

 

Who I am, by 7576FO

You cannot get me on the dance floor in the United States, but after 2 Capirainia's in Rio de Janeiro I move like Travolta. 5 I take off my shirt.

I'm 2 blocks from the Pompano Beach Municiple Golf course, yet I do not have Quebec licience plates. (So I cannot golf Nov-April)

I was married once. To a woman...

I'm currently dating a very attractive Blonde lady that is a Cleveland Browns fan.

I'm a morning person.

If I were an animal? I'd be an Osprey. Or Giraffe. 3rd choice Turtle.



Ok, I warned ALL of you. AA is the Air Force. You will stand in this line until called. You will not speak. As far as the company and the union, if they didn't think of it: You will not get it.

Do not offer any suggestions. They will be not be processed.



It took a merge with USAir to change our MESSED up Vacation system. AA's vacation used to go May1-April 30. We would bid in January. There would be 8 rounds of bidding. I would NOT get anything I want in round 1 (I get 4 weeks) I would be ASSIGNED 3 weeks that I do not want in round 1. Round 2 is very short 6 days. The final week I would not get any of my choices and get Feb week1.

The last 2 years we moved our vac up to Apr1-Mar31 then last year was Mar1-Feb28 but guess what vacation banks are paid out in January.
So Feb vacation goes UNPAID> Guess what I got? Feb vacation.

This place is so messed up, that any change has to be an improvement.

I am very pleased with many of the changes taking place.

 

More 7576FO,

I'm happy, I like my job, I love the 777 and miss the 757.

It' s just the that everything here is sub-standard to DAL UAL. For decades ALL i heard was "We have the best retirement in the industry"

Not anymore.

We are virtually the only place that uses TDY. Although it's dwindling recently. They used TDY to fix all kinds of problems.


Everything in scheduling is substandard to everywhere else.


I still, still after all these years write and suggest and try to get things brought to light.

Our closeout system is completely stupid. This should have been discarded in 1997.
Yes we still wait for numbers. Wasting, wasting, wasting.


You will see this on C&R alot, all this time mining data to not use or interpret it.

 

Finally managed to pare back my visits to online forums somewhat. Plan is to continue to avoid C&R, but I hear it calling occasionally. Why must y'all tempt me more? Is there really value there (how this works? what's this code? who do I call for x?) or it is all pretty much urinating and moaning? Lord knows we don't need anymore East vs. West type discussion.

 

Email them to our COO.([email protected]) Only person that I have seen implement ideas.