SoCalGuy

Disclaimer: This post is NOT meant to start a fire storm, nor pin one Legacy Group vs another. It is merely brought to light to exemplify how screwed up Mgt is in what they call a "Merger". Pure evidence of day to day operations floundering along pi$$ing off not only the employee groups, but more importantly the paying $$PAX$$.

The rumor on the street is that LAX MX/Ops has been having a complete meltdown this month. Can anyone confirm/share eye witnessed stories, or events??

So far this month, I have 'heard' that a B757-300 (one of the NONE ETOPS -300 birds) was dispatched, and flew pax-revenue from LAX to the "Islands" before the error was caught.

I also just got an email fwd'ed from a Pilot (L-CAL) who witnessed Ops/MX actually 'loose' an a/c out in LAX.....No where to be found for several hours. In that same email, apparently L-UA MX, in error, turned wrenches on a L-CAL plane....even ordered 'wrong parts' for that aircraft. Again....NOT pointing fingers at the "worker-bee" level, just bringing to light the continued lack of Leadership/Management/Customer Service that continues to derail the entire process.

Part of the email mentioned earlier:

GET this ... Flt 3 was cancelled at 945PM last night. Customers were ****ed off -- can you blame them? They'd been here since 0800! Also, 2 inbound HNLLAX were cancelled last night. Cancelling flights left and right out of here, equip swaps about an hour before departure! AND the infamous a/c # 863 (WAS FLT 3 yesterday) .. has gone "missing in action". I think MX finally found it and is now making it's way to the terminal. HOW do you lose a plane????

But.. I did hear after the a/c was no good after UA MX had it all day long.. CO MX took back "possession" of it to finish the work.

OMG .. we truly are doomed! Back to the nightmare!

Chat later.

Also embedded in the same email.....

Omg. Check out flifo on 3 today. Ua Mx worked on plane in error????!!! Ordered wrong part and never adv ops of anything. Thank goodness socc kept us in the loop. All we were told "the plane is going, we do not know when ". We are doomed

oldmako

I LOVE IT!

UAL was lousy under Glenn. Under Jeff its abysmal.

But, it will help our cause.

Ottolillienthal

MX guys must be trying to help the pilots.

mvndc10

I think it is fair to say that the NEW UAL is one, if not the Worst managed operations out there......

Hopfully the Pilots get released soon and shove the whole operation where Jeff don't shine....

Dave Fitzgerald

Got a good one from LUAL SFO today. No O2 bottles available. A MX station. Oh, and remember, no more O2 in the LAVs. Might need those bottles. Refused plane.

Monkeyfly

From the latest sched committee update:


He stated that they have had a number of openings for crew schedulers and will be hiring 6. It appears some schedulers simply do not want to commute to downtown Chicago. He stated that on the s-CO side, most of the schedulers have less than 1 year of experience

Freight Dawg

That's for security reasons. There is evidence that terrorists have planned to make a fire in the lav and use the O2 generator to fuel the fire. If you haven't seen a fire fueled with pure O2, it's rather impressive

HSLD

Read about it in Jeff's new book:

From First to Worst, how I squandered Gordon's legacy.

threeighteen

"evidence"

Boneman

We can't even get a replacement seat cushion in MIA during the day. Seems MIA is only a maintenance station at night.