Frustrated PA
 

He said what we’ve all been thinking for the most recent 2-5 years.

Sometimes you just run out of things to say. We’re all really frustrated and it’s been more and more difficult to keep our frustrations in check. I know this captain and he’s a great guy and normally very mild-mannered and fairly reserved. Definitely not even in the top half if one were to create a list of most to least likely to lose his cool.

Personally, I’m not shy about sharing pure facts, but do my best not to editorialize. “We are sitting here waiting for a gate because Frontier only has one gate and it is currently occupied by another Frontier aircraft. That plane is scheduled to leave in 35 minutes.”

It’ll be interesting to see how the Company reacts as I’d expect the video to gain in popularity over the next few days.

What an idiot. I’d fire him if i ran the show. You just don’t say that stuff no matter how frustrated you are.

Wow, thanks for sharing - now scram. We could give a f@(& what you think.

At the very least he'll get some time off and counseling. They may even refer him to a psychologist. Seen it before at other airlines.

You dont say that on the PA. Be professional. Besides, everyone already knows Frontier sucks.

Thanks for chiming in You Tool.

The PA appeared calm and factual. He was totally honest, embarrassed, and explaining the nature & cause of the delay; or did you miss that part? :confused:

Good thing you Don’t run the show.
Go troll somewhere else, and btw, GFY.
Really, GFY.
:eek:

Exactly.

This is the kind of stuff that many have been referring to. Stay the course. Fly the line like you always have. No one outside of our industry cares about our contract negotiations and certainly don't care anymore now.

If I heard this over the PA and I was Joe Blow off the street, I'd probably wonder if the CA was whining like this over a parking space, what would he do if an engine blew in flight - panic? Blame the company for not paying the maintainers? Something else?

Be a PROFESSIONAL at ALL TIMES!!!!!

No one is going to argue and say it's not true. Just because it's true doesn't make it right. I'm curious what it says in the FOM about announcements and what it should and shouldn't include.

The link is going to a facebook login. Is there any other way to watch?

I’m sure you can find it on YouTube

It's not on YouTube. Can someone paraphrase what he said?

I haven’t seen it, but can only imagine! That’s why I’ve unbundled my services just like our wonderful LFDR model. (Low Fairs Done Right) I won’t make a PA for any reason, but if Barry wants me to make PAs, then he needs to pay for that service. Like $100 more per hr to get just to industry average! Fupm Barry.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we know you have a choice in air travel and we’re sorry that you chose poorly.

That’s the way to go. No PA’s ever. No one gives a **** anyway.

I totally disagree. I’m a professional airline pilot and will continue to do my job with the upmost professionalism regardless of whom I work for. One of our duties as captain is to maintain the passengers informed.

And iron your epaulettes.

The link doesn't work anymore.


I can imagine what it said.


I can also tell you JetBlue fired a Captain for a similar stunt.

What did the JB captain do?

I’ve heard of the JB Captain who ran the APU on transcons.....

Only one? :D

There are two captains at JB that have done the carpet dance. One a few years ago, he was given the "chance" to publicly via video apologise and I believe kept his job. More recently we had one fired for PA exploits.

CYA gents, and be professional. Not sure how frontier is, but JB doesn't mess around with their employees and public shaming of the company.

This company is publicly shameful to everyone already.

HA! I know brotha... I hear ya.

WHY would you run the APU during a transcon? Thats just wasting gas to waste gas. On the other hand, depending on the amount of fuel the APU eats, you could possibly use it to burn fuel for a MLW landing.

I think you answered your own question.

Was that the BDL divert CA?