Alaska Ooops...
04-19-2015, 07:08 AM
#11
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Finally someone gets it
In the Seattle Times this week.
Snoozing bagage handler: You get what you pay for
Wakeup call: Alaska Airlines outsourced baggage handling to save money, cutting hundreds of in-house jobs, a move that may have come back to bit them in the snooze heard around the world...
Remember the reaction from ALPA when Bill "replaced" about 500 IAM members to save a few bucks and the Menzies guys started tagging the cargo holds with gang graffiti? Yawn... "ALPA pilots could never be replaced by non-union workers... we have a gentlemen's agreement they would never..."
Wake up MEC!
Snoozing bagage handler: You get what you pay for
Wakeup call: Alaska Airlines outsourced baggage handling to save money, cutting hundreds of in-house jobs, a move that may have come back to bit them in the snooze heard around the world...
Remember the reaction from ALPA when Bill "replaced" about 500 IAM members to save a few bucks and the Menzies guys started tagging the cargo holds with gang graffiti? Yawn... "ALPA pilots could never be replaced by non-union workers... we have a gentlemen's agreement they would never..."
Wake up MEC!
04-19-2015, 12:27 PM
#13
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Joined APC: Mar 2005
Position: Ca B737
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Originally Posted by FLY6584
How often do 73's takeoff above max landing weight? Is it likely they had to dump gas in this situation?
04-19-2015, 01:23 PM
#14
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Originally Posted by mike734
737s can't dump fuel. But we do take off over max landing weight quite often. Many flights are planned to land at max landing weight. Cutting corners or unforcast tailwinds can require us to drop the gear early and/or drag around the pattern with gear and flaps just to burn fuel and get below max landing weight. Another in a long list of excellent design "features."
04-19-2015, 02:03 PM
#15
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The reason there isn't much of a traditional APC furball over how Delta caused this, and over how Alaska can go to Juno anythime it wants to, is that sadly, we're all victims of outsourcing to some extent. If it's not the people that load the bags, it's the people that pretend to clean the lavs...
04-19-2015, 03:13 PM
#16
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Originally Posted by Sink r8
The reason there isn't much of a traditional APC furball over how Delta caused this, and over how Alaska can go to Juno anythime it wants to, is that sadly, we're all victims of outsourcing to some extent. If it's not the people that load the bags, it's the people that pretend to clean the lavs...
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