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The AA agents need to quit complaining. No one REALLY cares just as long as it's the cheapest ticket. I don't ever hear them talk about providing a better passenger experience. All I ever hear is aligning costs.

 

Wow that went off on a negative turn fast. I love how it so quickly turned into an attack on each other's operation. The truth is none of us has control on where and what we operate. I am sure a Envoy wishes we were not in DFW as much as Mesa peeps wish we were back in PHX. Let's be honest we are slaves to our mainline puppet masters. Most of us are at our perspective regionals because we thought it was the best place for us at the time. I think we can all agree we just want decent QOL and some progression to make it to the other side. Now with that being said we still seem to be way over staffed for DFW. I don't think our operational issues are for lack of crew. This means we are expecting huge turnover, or we are stockpiling bodies for additional business. You just don't pay people to sit, Especially Mesa. This directly affects the bottom line when the only source of income is from fees for departure.

 

I saw a Mesa bird at the gate with no jet bridge for 15 minutes. Then a gate agent finally walks up, nice and slow, with a McD's Milk Shake.

Not a care in the world.

 

Ha if only anything cost a dollar in the terminal.

 

20 more fos then ca on roster. Take that plus some 20 lines of ioe. Expect 50+ reserves in dfw for july

 

Green reserve grid... That's a special treat, enjoy it!

 

I jump seated thru DFW and can attest to the awfulness that runs the operation there. It's not a Mesa thing. AA needs to whip those people into shape or fire their asses. I missed my connecting commute flight thanks to those bozos.

 

It's the culture that AA has created for their brand. And it's not just DFW. Look at the remote terminal at LAX...what a mess! Passengers are ****ed because they have tight connections and then they have to wait in line to take a bus to get to the main terminal. Who in their right mind would treat paying passengers like that? And then everything gets delayed and passengers start to lose their cool. I had a lady curse out one of the flight attendants from the jet bridge, and then proceeded to walk out onto the ramp to yell at the ground crews because there was only one ramper pulling bags.

The passengers, who vote with their $$$, are the only ones with the power to change any of this. But it doesn't matter because come this fall when it's time to go see grandma, AA will be $20 cheaper than United and those previous bad experiences won't even be a distant memory in their minds.

 

If we are so over staffed at least on the pilot side in DFW, are other CRJ bases short on people? Or is this possibly a sign of things to come such as more CRJ flying.