This post is over the top and many of the ideas may seem ridiculous, but it’s an attempt to be part of the solution.
Are there changes to the operation we can make to limit touch points when we, the crew, go to work?
Here’s preliminary ideas I dreamed up:
- TSA does not handle our IDs
- Gate agents open the door to jetways for crew
- F/A briefing conducted over interphone, not face to face
- Relief on some checks like cockpit door check, etc
- Relief on handling, signing or transferring the release, fuel slips, other paper work.
- increased efforts to avoid use of delta computers (pilot lounge) opting for personal devices instead
- limited cabin service to include beverage service or change it to mitigate touch points
- not gonna happen but, more magnetic readers vs keypads for door locks to ramp other secure areas
- controlled food / snacks loaded in a sanitary box / bag that crew members can use on the flight and / or on layovers to limit touch points to get food and drinks
- one pilot handles the logbook and presents it to the other
- wait for the van driver to open and close the door and retrieve your own bags.
Okay, I know most of these are not practical, already being considered, or just dumb.
There are smart people here. The idea is to throw out ideas in the hope we could come up with some new idea that would be easy to implement and make going to work less likely to result in spread.
Thanks.