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Originally Posted by capncrunch (Post 1638021)

We should fight to match our peers like FedEx and UPS.

Which is one of the goals.

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Originally Posted by TheManager (Post 1638070)

That's a 200. They could power outta that. :D

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1...axi-grass1.jpg

Well, they tried

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Originally Posted by GogglesPisano (Post 1638089)

From what I hear, we are returning to a "break in the checklist," so that we can delay -- to the absolute last possible microsecond .....

... wait for it ....

...wait for it ....

...just a little bit longer ...

the turning on of the dreaded BEACON :eek:

Do the south planes still block out with the beacon? I thought with acars 601 they were going to the brake...

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Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 1638093)

Now that we use brake release to start the clock I didn't think anyone much cared. To me "anticipation of aircraft movement" means turning the beacon on as I call so the ramp tower can more easily identify who's calling (since we have a lot of XXa, XXb, gates where two airplanes are crammed into a spot where one should go).

I'm always puzzled by the fact that some CA's ask me to call for push, then run the checklist. Others, the opposite. Shouldn't this be standard -- one way or the other?

And as long as I'm on my soapbox, why not just link out time with movement on all aircraft? Then the beacon will be a moo :p point. That is the essential point concerning "gate latency." Amirite?

As an added bonus, we won't have to worry about the Europeans sprinting away from the aircraft in a mad dash like Godzilla has just awakened (says so in the green pages!!)

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Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 1638098)

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1...axi-grass1.jpg

Well, they tried

Of course I was kidding, but seriously!?!

Nice blade damage. What part of our planet was this stupid human trick performed?

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Originally Posted by GogglesPisano (Post 1638101)

I think they are all off of the brakes now, I believe that's what they are going to...one way, do the checklist than call for the push.

Dumb question here... is an E145 a 50 seater?

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Originally Posted by tsquare (Post 1638148)

Dumb question here... is an E145 a 50 seater?

Not dumb and yes it is.

The E135 is a 37 seater, E140 is a 44 seater (hello scope clause work around) and the E135BJ... :D :D is the corporate version.

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Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 1637968)

The Supervisor's attitude is intolerable, even if they are right.

We took an hour plus delay, which resulted in an hour delay all day, causing a head of State from Santo Domingo to mis connect over 4 hoagies earlier this year (and the issue may have been the short carts, things in the back carts get lost).

If I would have had any idea, I'd have bought the "crew meals" and expensed them, but rather than bringing the food they audited the carts, then brought the food. The "audit" took 45 minutes past departure and the food another 30. That's no way to run an airline.

We need a operational red coat who can fuel an airplane, send in a bag count, and throw sandwiches to hungry flight attendants. ... and I kinda don't blame them. While you and I might pack nutrition bars for the inevitable re-route + tight turn, they figure they are doing a 12 hour day with a turn and food. Gotta eat something.

Well, I get that but I think it's two different things.

In my situation this FA was complaining about was she wanted the galley set up the way she wanted it. Two legs with her and you knew the world revolved around her and occasionally had an eclipse and went missing.

She wants these up there and those over there and these in there and so on. But all that has been laid out and standardized beforehand, don't like it, change it after they're done. Hence the supervisor in this case saying do as we've been instructed to do not how this one individual wanted it done.

If it's done right nothing should be lost and if something is missing you should know it immediately because it goes in the same place each time.

If that's not what they're doing then it's what they need to be doing.

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