Since we're starting to do some of the same customer service roles that they do (delay PAs in the plane, delay PAs at the gatehouse, engaging with customers while not flying the airplane, etc) maybe we can get some of the benefits the FAs get to keep them "chipper and ready to serve the customer" like:

A real rest facility
Holiday Pay
Better vacation
Nice lounges to wait between flights
Free "points" for to replace uniform pieces
Van between Kew Gardens/LGA/JFK

We already have to fight that some of our flying is outsourced, now we have to fight the whipsaw that is our FAs too?

Nice lounges? Mother D just fills it with crap anyway. Walk over to the IFS lounge in E. You have to stoop as you walk in because they hang signs at the 6 foot level about uniform compliance and so on. There's even a uniform compliance check station next to the uniform compliance room across from the uniform compliance signs. Free coffee but the pot is always empty and no bags of coffee to be found anywhere.

03-19-2013 | 10:28 AM

#126512

forgot to bid

veut gagner à la loterie

Joined: Apr 2008

Posts: 23,286

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From: Light Chop

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigbusdriver

And you wonder why you get your fourth choice on meals .

wait, I only put down three...

03-19-2013 | 10:34 AM

#126513

johnso29

Moderator

Joined: Oct 2006

Posts: 13,088

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From: B757/767

Looks like icrew is down. With such a technologically advanced system, it's hard to imagine it could be down.

03-19-2013 | 10:35 AM

#126514

dalad

Line Holder

Joined: Nov 2009

Posts: 1,281

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From: C560XL/XLS/XLS+

Quote:

Originally Posted by forgot to bid

And you wonder why you get your fourth choice on meals .

wait, I only put down three...

Lol, I remember going to ZRH last summer and the purser telling us there was no more beef. Came to find out from the other FA's he had eaten three on the leg over. None of the other FA's wanted anything to do with him on the layover.

03-19-2013 | 10:41 AM

#126515

TANSTAAFL

Gets Weekends Off

Joined: Dec 2009

Posts: 784

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From: Still in one

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnso29

Looks like icrew is down. With such a technologically advanced system, it's hard to imagine it could be down.

Denial of Service meltdown as thousands of pilots simultaneously look for AE results......

03-19-2013 | 10:42 AM

#126516

cni187

Doing Nothing

Joined: Aug 2010

Posts: 1,316

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Quote:

Originally Posted by johnso29

Looks like icrew is down. With such a technologically advanced system, it's hard to imagine it could be down.

Looks like 11,700 or so pilots trying to log in at the same time and to see their future shut the system down!!

Someone must have typed white rabbit object!