Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
08-14-2010 | 04:43 PM
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Have gone through the former NWA bases several times on the last few trips. Today we had to wait because "it's a long way from the break room". Just what does the in-range do anyway?
My personal theory is the IAM is trying to make a stink. I've seen two different push crews walk off the job right when we get clearance to push. So far, not impressed at all with the professionalism by the ramp operation at DTW or MSP.
My personal theory is the IAM is trying to make a stink. I've seen two different push crews walk off the job right when we get clearance to push. So far, not impressed at all with the professionalism by the ramp operation at DTW or MSP.
08-14-2010 | 05:00 PM
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Have gone through the former NWA bases several times on the last few trips. Today we had to wait because "it's a long way from the break room". Just what does the in-range do anyway?
My personal theory is the IAM is trying to make a stink. I've seen two different push crews walk off the job right when we get clearance to push. So far, not impressed at all with the professionalism by the ramp operation at DTW or MSP.
My personal theory is the IAM is trying to make a stink. I've seen two different push crews walk off the job right when we get clearance to push. So far, not impressed at all with the professionalism by the ramp operation at DTW or MSP.
08-14-2010 | 05:07 PM
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From: Dismayed
Will do. Suspect the CA will as well.
08-14-2010 | 05:07 PM
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I'd buy the IAM BS theory...total conjecture here, but it seems like maybe the PMDAL jets are getting worse treatment than the PMNWA jets in DTW. On the 75 I haven't had any trouble with the ground crews in DTW lately. (Maybe they can't tell the difference between the 75 fleets?) Of course my sample size is pretty small... seems like all my trips only begin and end in DTW. I spend more time in ATL than DTW these days
08-14-2010 | 05:38 PM
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08-14-2010 | 05:54 PM
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I'll betcha that if given an option, guys would buy their own... I know I would...
08-14-2010 | 05:55 PM
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What's with the 320's not doing single engine taxi? I followed one of ours for 53 minutes this morning in the ATL elephant walk while he burned a couple thousand pounds of fuel.
08-14-2010 | 05:58 PM
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I'd buy the IAM BS theory...total conjecture here, but it seems like maybe the PMDAL jets are getting worse treatment than the PMNWA jets in DTW. On the 75 I haven't had any trouble with the ground crews in DTW lately. (Maybe they can't tell the difference between the 75 fleets?) Of course my sample size is pretty small... seems like all my trips only begin and end in DTW. I spend more time in ATL than DTW these days
08-14-2010 | 06:02 PM
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From: Poodle Whisperer
I'm seeing more than I used to SE taxi, though.
08-14-2010 | 06:20 PM
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I just finished a 4 day and got the CA to SE taxi almost every leg. An exception was a 5 min taxi in JFK(of all places) off Gate 1 to 31L @ KK. We needed 5 minutes since it was first flight of the day and we actually had to wait 2:30 before we started to taxi. Guys are getting better.
One thing that needs to be changed is our Vol 1 prohibits X-Bleed starts with the parking brake OFF. It must be set in order to do a X-Bleed start, so if we want to SE Taxi we have to keep the APU running. That needs to be changed.
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