acl65pilot

Well, I can tell you that, for some reason I can never check in at the Kiosk but can check in on line. I like being able to check in from home and then go directly to the gate.

I venture to bet that those no show non-revs misconnected from somewhere.

TheTriColor

Something else that needs to be changed IMO is the boarding of Non Revs.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe non revs are given "Zone 4" boarding. With everyone bringing so many carry ons and the overheads filling up so quickly (Paying passengers ABSOLUTELY should have first dibs on overhead space), It bugs me when 'offline' non revs board ahead of me because they rushed to cut in front of people, and get their bags on, and then I, while traveling on my own airline, have to gate check my overnight bag, and wait for it at baggage claim for 45 minutes.
This happened to me twice in the last two weeks commuting to work. I was not in uniform so I could not just put a deadhead crew tag on and take it downstairs. One day, a Compass FA with three big bags, and a Skywest pilot, with two big bags, boarded ahead of me, got their stuff in the overheads, and then me and about 4 PAYING passengers had to gate check our bags. The week prior, same thing happened but it was a Pinnacle FO, and two FA's from ASA and Comair I think.

Dont really know how to fix this but maybe give Delta non revs zone 4, and then offline non revs zone 6 or something.
I realize in the grand scheme of things this isnt a terrible issue, but when you are commuting to work, or commuting home, sucks to have to check your bags and wait at baggage claim for awhile, while non revs from other airlines get their bags on no problem, because they were willing to run to the front of the line and cut off paying passengers.

johnso29

You're not understanding. The 50 seaters being removed from the Comair fleet are not
being shuffled. They're being parked. Sent to the desert.

Frontier is parking them because they don't make money. That's why regionals are losing money. The airplanes haven't been profitable for years. Only the FFD contacts have been keeping most regionals heads above water.

Wikipedia is not a reliable source of info.

johnso29

And Skywest well fly them for whom?

XtremeF150

I guess some agents don't know how to look but you can see if they are in fact misconnects or if they simply checked in early. I also believe that if they get to a nonrev that doesn't answer simply call the name 2x and then move on.

As a crew member though I really try to stay on top of the seating situation and if the seats are tight with nonrevs, check and make sure we put them all on. If the agent wants to put the delay on me for the extra 2 or 3 minutes to put the nonrevs on then fine.

If it was his/her family they would likely appreciate my determination. I nonrev quite a bit and therefore try to take care of them as I would my own family.

forgot to bid

No this coming out of MCO. So I doubt there were connections. This is off a buddy pass that I was watching over. They assigned 25 nonrevs, then took 8 back and assigned a few more after the fact so I guess they let some on but it still went with 1 open seat. all of this D-10 and inside. That's a lot of unnecessary work for gate agents with no time to spare.

It happened to me not long ago out of PHF. The flight was full and there was a family of 4 on the nonrev list ahead of us that never showed but showed up on the airport list way early. At first it was doubtful we'd get on and then that family actually got 4 seats together and we ended up being split up 1, 1, 1 and 1. Not good when two of those are under 3. The gate agent worked the crowd to see if they could get 2 and 2 together which we did. But as we're sitting on the plane I notice this empty row and sure enough the door shuts, people get up and move into it (CRJ900) and I'm thinking, this checking in at home is not a good thing.

I'd prefer as x150 said, go back to nonrevs check in on kiosks only.

acl65pilot

It is spring break. Flying is crazy this time of year. Many nonrevs probably did not even make their first flight and were waiting for the next one. If it is was out of a city that does not have hourly service, the gate agents in that city may not have rolled them yet, and as a result they are showing in ATL and able to make the connection, when if fact they never got on their first flight.

The rolling over of the standby list is a manual process and I have watched it after missing a flight. I have seen them no complete the rollover until 30 min before the departure of the next flight.
Just sayin..... The reason my in fact not be the nonrevs fault.

We need to protect this benefit and blaming nonrevs is not the way to do it without the entire story.

Phuz

Yea sorry about that, im a dummy. Shrink here, grow there is not a shuffle.

Never said the airplane itself was profitable. All I said is that it is not yet "dead".

Ha. Okay. I agree. APC is off too. There aren't 850+ 50 seat rj's flying around for US legacy operators. More like 100, and they just follow me everywhere i go. New fangled crowdsourcing wiki technology, can't trust that gee-wiz stuff! And its not fox news, so it must be wrong! That dang Anonymous guy must be making up fleet numbers and editing 15 different airline wikipedia pages again.

That APC updater guy needs to update his numbers too, hey you're a moderator drop him a line! Tell the guy there aren't 850 50 seaters.

More Bacon

Your posts used to be somewhat insightful, and even useful.

For whatever reason, you've degenerated into name-calling and personal attacks without regard for the validity of many widely held opinions you so vehemently object to. Your credibility is shot.

But don't let that stop you from flaunting your arrogance.

TSquare--a legend in his own mind.

Welcome to my ignore list.

Wingnutdal

This may be the most ironic post I have ever seen. Are you a narcissist or something?
Jeesh, talk about the pot calling the kettle black.