I'm not sure why scheduling has a complete inability to do something as simple as assign trips to reserves and make vja calls. So many open trips right now and so many unused reserves. It is ridiculous.

 

This operation has been an on and off again total cluster-****. How does our VP of Operations still have his job?! Can anyone explain to me what good it does to operate under this new model of business if it falls flat on its face every 2-3 months? It obviously needs some major tweaking, first step is showing Bill Meehan the door!

Unfortunately since we're a private company it would be worthless to have a "vote of no confidence," like SWAPA executed (shortly before getting a TA that took a better part of the decade to negotiate). What can ALPA do to voice our frustration with our operations?

 

I wonder how big the management Christmas bonus package will be.........
Good job ?????????

 

I'm sorry if I came off as dramatic but not everyone travels for the holiday on Christmas Day. Most people don't have the money to buy a last minute ticket on another airline when F9 says we can't get you there for another 5 days.

 

Do you really think Frontier isn't getting applications by the dozens from guys with busted check rides, DUI's, or arrest records? I can't imagine squeaky clean four year degree PIC's applying to you and not anyone else on the planet. I doubt this guy will stick out too bad.

 

I wonder the very same thing. I will be shocked if anything happens to him though. He has to be one of the most incompetent people at this airline.

 

Just like Spirit.

 

It was / is horrendous. They would keep delaying flights, then finally cancelling , I was at a Denver gate when they announced a cancellation, near riot. The customer service line was down to the main area by the food court. The police were called to monitor things as they were getting out of hand. Over 7 airplanes with over 3 hour tarmac delay because no gates / because maybe 10 rampers were left - isn't that $27.5 K per passenger fine ? It was Mega cold though and I froze my cajones on a 5 minute preflight. I Felt bery bad for the Rampers. When they did cancel , the pax waited 3-4 hours and never got their luggage. They ordered all flights to leave without bags to open up the gates. My flight left 10 hours late with no bags. No one told the pax though as we walked past them in baggage claim to the hotel van. -

If I were running the show and saw the temps and weather coming - I would have ordered double time for every ramper that showed up , head down there with my pockets filled with $100 s and hand them out -feed everyone etc. it would work and the cost would be minimal compared to the fines and lost customers.

 

I personally saw at least two airplanes with air stairs hooked up on a icy ramp due to the tarmac delay program timing out.

 

It's very hard to stay positive at this place, and I'm generally a glass half full kind of person. This is the 5th or 6th CEO/management team that has been at the helm since I have worked here. Although they are making money, they are just as inept as the ones that preceded them. They repeatedly spend hundreds of thousands to save a few hundred.

They gave away most of our gates on the A concourse and try to run the same operation with a handful of gates. Any little hiccup in the operation results in our airplanes parked on the tarmac for hours waiting for a gate. Who is responsible for this poor decision making? Who is held accountable. Nobody!

BB comes to the airport and throws a few bags on the ramp after he's responsible for breaking the operation. Then he pats himself on the back and puts his picture in the company rags as the hero that came to save the day. Pathetic!