New Orleans Long Stay
 

Hope our crews at the long stay are okay

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/01/us/new-orleans-shooting-french-quarter/index.html

Just narrowly missed the hotel collapse a few weeks ago

I hope our crews aren’t staying out till 3am...

plenty do....

Sorry, but what has local time to do with it? Most of my trips I can't stay out till 3am, because I don't get to the hotel till 6am. Last trip I landed at 3am, there was a 24hr bar next door, so I had breakfast with a few drinks till 5am. Slept till 3pm, went for a 7mile run, had lunner, and went back to work at 10pm. Hopefully you don't think there's anything wrong with that.

No to worry. Grumpy and Kingpin do hotel buyback.

. it's a shame because there is some great culture there too.

Meh I usually call the company and switch us to the short stay anyways.

Haha. So you’re “that guy”. Pleasure to meet you.

“US”.?.? So you decide your FO would rather stay in an airport hotel than in his contractual downtown location?

He’s the one that complains that the downtown hotel only has expensive food options and writes the hotel committee to put us in a Hampton by the airport for the free powdered egg breakfast and the Applebee’s down the street.

I know you’re just flaming everyone and it seems to be working. However, I don’t want to give some of our newer pilots the idea that this an option. It’s a contract violation. 16:45 or longer overnight on your pairing and you go to the long stay. It’s not optional or waivable

This! And to add to that it's 16:45 scheduled, so even if you get delayed inside of that you still go to the long stay. It really should be 15 hours but some of the more vocal old hacks have an infatuation with waiting around on the hotel shuttle and staying at the Fairfield Inn by the airport.

I wish we could have kept the old hotel language with the option to make a request for the short stay for those who just can't handle being at the Sheraton downtown.

I wonder if it’s the same guy who’s terrified of walking outside the BWI long stay because, you know, one time way back a Delta guy got mugged once... 🤦

Dress for success
 

A pilot on layover was approached by a mugger who said: “Hey Pal, you want to work this side of the street? I’ll take the other side.” :D

The night time is the right time.

I actually kind of liked the long stay in MSY, apparently we are moving out...I’ll never understand it. Must be the same guys that complain about the long stay in BOS.

I was okay with the location of our current long stay too. The new location is next to City Hall with nothing around. The first time I stayed at the new location 30 years ago it was a dump. Maybe things have changed since then. it’ll be mobbed on home game day and we’ll probably have to move to an alternate approved location on those days.

There are definitely more choices at our current location that we are leaving than the new one.