Everything I have said is 100% true. Feel free to PM me your info and I will email you from my personal account with all details. Including dates and flight numbers.

 

Wouldn't be surprised if it's SENIOR Memphis 9E Captains who live in base who are being extremely indifferent to your situation.

Great job, senior Pinnacle guys!

 

wow. grow up.

 

I feel your pain....

A lot of times it might be 9E Dispatch tankering fuel, i.e. having the fueler fill up the tanks to save $$ on fuel at the outstation. Apparently, our dispatch awards gift cards to restaurants for the dispatcher who tankers the most fuel in a given month (from a good friend who works as a dispatcher).

When this happens, or if there is an alternate at the outstation, MEM ops classifies it as a "balance critical" or "weight critical" flight and good luck trying to get and fill out a jumpseat form from the agent. I know that as a 9E FO based in MEM trying to commute home a lot of times this frustrates me more than anything. Anytime MEM ops sees or hears those two words, the gate agents play CA and will deny the jumpseat, and normally with me, will always lead me into a heated discussion with the agent about whether or not I can list for or even fill out a form for the jumpseat or if I can talk to the CA about it.

Like someone else said, this is an huge issue @9E, but also like someone else said, most 9E CA's are good guys will help me out.

 

For the gazillionth time folks....

Please post airline names and NOT their codes, unless it is obvious... for us ignorant pilots who don't keep track 24/7 of airline codes. I figured it out thanks to the replies above. I mean, how does Pinnacle come up with 9E, anyways? How about PCL, wow that must be too obvious?

Thanks!

 

Hey your username starts with AA...of course we all know what AA means, but most of the people in this thread know what 9E means as well...

 

I'm not a commuter anymore but to weight in on this issue... I would NEVER EVER EVER count on a pinnacle jumpseat unless you just LIKE being left behind. I don't know if it's the pilots (I really hope it isn't) but when I was commuting, if they were close to full... you were screwed. I used to fly the 200 for a different company and barring a really long leg or alternate fuel we ALWAYS got the jumpseaters on, actually sometimes even fuel numbers were reworked to make it possible. It's definately a balance issue, anyone who's worked a balance problem on a 200 pretty much knows the nose heavy issue.... at my previous company we had 50 lb sandbags or comat... I hear at comair they went one further and put a 200 lb plate in the back of all their 200's either way... if it says operated by 9E... I hope you have a backup (No offense to 9E pilots... just the truth of the matter)

 

I beg to differ... and how hard is it to type in the airline name, really?

 

typing in the name takes about as long as researching the abbreviation. Researching the airline code takes less time than making a post complaining about abbreviations. I mean really do we not have better things to complain about?

 

way to stay classy there RB..........divide and conquer? Good luck being a rep with that attitude.