Right next to it should be a display of the Delta fuel hedging department.
A cut away of a roulette wheel and a $1.5 billion chip sitting on red as the marble lands on black.

 

No ped use in aircraft, I know, but I'm sure a good iPhone video with the brakes on at the gate of late arriving and dancing rampers might get things fixed. If it were me though, I'd be showing it to dalpa only and letting them move ut forward. I don't want anyone to know it was me or get me for ped use when I'm trying to do them a favor since those ped warnings in the bulletins evidently were the one and only warnings, evidently.

PED- performance enhancing drugs or personal electronic equipment? They never did say did they?

 

I'd bet the same cameras that record our beacon use also record the dancing rampers.

 

Nope. Gotta read all 4000 pages. Its part of Indoc. There will be a distance learning CD and an electronic oral later.

 

Heyas,

Mostly DTW runs pretty well. About %10 of the time you'll need to call for a park job.

Outbounds, OTOH, run very smooth. They've been very good about the paperwork issue, and no one has said "boo" about waiting for the numbers.

FWIW, MSP is about the same. Expect to wait on game day when the Vikings, Packers, Timberwolves or whoever else is playing.

MEM was really the only exception. That place runs pretty well. In the past, it ran like clockwork.... you'd be hooked up to AC and electric practically as the parking brake was set, and you'd be sat down infront of your Interstate BBQ before you could say "boo". MEM is still my favorite place...they'll never get that BBQ smell out of the terminal untill they knock it down. You smell it right from the time they open the cabin door...mmmmm....

As for the APU thing, yea, you guys have a point. There is some past policy issues with this, but suffice to say, the rampers still take a running APU as a "don't plug us in" signal. Even calling into ops for a plug in results in a, shall we say, a tepid response.

Plugging in the AC is even worse, and I notice that compliance with this is pretty poor, even at DAL stations. Quite frankly, APU Sheriff or not, I'm not going to let my Pax bake. It takes a LONG time to cool down a DC-9 on the best of days, and if you don't have external A/C and you wait 5 minutes before push to fire up the APU, then you'll cook until you start down at your destination.

Flew a trip with more DAL airplanes than NW last time around. Still amused by the fDAL response to the 753, though. We were coming down the jetway to meet the outbound crew, and they were "man, this is the long one, here is the gou...oh, wait, you guys are fNW...never mind". All done with smiles and good nature, though.

Nu

 

So if you can't dodge fast enough, you get tired? This is worse than I thought!

 

You would guess that with Michigan unemployment at 14%+, they'd be dang happy to have a job and not take it for granted! Hopefully, this gets fixed ASAP!

 

Yeah, no kidding. It is sad, you go to CVG and they're hooking up electric as the aircraft is coming to a stop ... the air comes on seconds later. But we're going to shut down that base and layoff all those hard workers.

I can also second the previous poster's comments on MEM. I was just there on my last rotation and we never received air despite us calling several times. I kept the APU running.

This isn't a fnwa bash. We have LGA and JFK ... both cesspools in my opinion. I too blame management as I feel they've hired all the wrong individuals for these jobs. The same can be said for the ATL ramp controllers. Was anyone there last night? ATL was in meltdown mode on a Sunday ... no weather ... no IROPs. Absolutely amazing. But that's what we get for operating the World's busiest airport.

 

Another issue I've seen is that the MD-88s have their external-air port forward of the wing, and it's easy to roll out the hose and plug it in. On the DC-9 the port is way back below the engines, and several of the former DAL South gates don't have a long enough hose to reach it. The solution is a portable unit, but many places don't have those either.

 

Everyone was watching the Season Finale of "Lost!"