Airtran

[scarlet]

Anyone noticed MX guys not very happy these days. One MX guy said they have seen a raise in writeups in the last week....

Alot of sick calls the last week..Cancelling flights due to no crews sch stated.

 

[Ty Webb]

Big surprise . . . .

 

[Captjiggles]

When has MX ever been excited? honestly?

 

[scarlet]

they were saying AT only has 14-16 line guys at any one time. With an uptick in mx problems they are running short I guess...don't know...

 

[Ty Webb]

Oh, I'm sure the " Best Management Team in the Industry" will be coming up from MCO to help out over the holiday weekend and earn their bonuses . . . . or not.

 

[maxblast72]

Alot of sick calls the last week..Cancelling flights due to no crews sch stated.

The numbers off FTWeb (around 6pm when I got done each day) show a different story. For the 3rd, we had 2 cancelled flights and had a 90% DOT ontime. For the 4th, we had 0 cancellations and 97% DOT ontime. I was surprised to see the numbers that good but they were.

 

[Secret Squirrel]

I heard many people "complaining" about being called in on their days off. But they were also excited about the premium pay. We are always our own worst enemy.

 

[Ty Webb]

The numbers off FTWeb (around 6pm when I got done each day) show a different story. For the 3rd, we had 2 cancelled flights and had a 90% DOT ontime. For the 4th, we had 0 cancellations and 97% DOT ontime. I was surprised to see the numbers that good but they were.

Whatchoo talkin' bout, Willis?

I worked on the 3rd and the numbers by late evening were around 69% for DOT arrivals and more like 39% OT pushes.

 

[maxblast72]

Whatchoo talkin' bout, Willis?

I worked on the 3rd and the numbers by late evening were around 69% for DOT arrivals and more like 39% OT pushes.

Read my post again. My numbers were from around 6pm. With all the TS in the northeast Friday, I am sure the ontime % went down as the night progressed (as you saw when you checked the numbers later on).

My point was on one of the busiest travel days of the year (system load factor around 90%) and with the amount of open time there was during the middle of last week, to have 2 cancellations and a 90% DOT ontime arrival rate at 6pm on July 3rd makes it seem like the pilots at Airtran are pretty happy overall with Contract 2001.

Maybe, Airtran just got lucky or maybe there is a conspiracy and the numbers on FTWeb are being skewed.

 

[SkiFishFly]

When you sign on to Sharetran, the numbers at the right for month look pretty bad - soemthing like what Ty posted. 39% on-time departure, 59% on-time arrival. Completion factor still up around 99 percent though.

 

[scrub]

I heard many people "complaining" about being called in on their days off. But they were also excited about the premium pay. We are always our own worst enemy.

This BS has got to end you nimrods!!!!!!!!!If you idiots don't quit picking up open time and flying on days off, we will never hire or get a contract!!!!!!!!
smarten up people!

 

[dh82dvr]

Agreed. Everyone has to bypass premium pay now for a major airline contract later. How will the best management team get the message when they don't feel a little pain.

9 in '09

 

[bmpilot]

I agree let people know when they take open time. It's stupid.

 

[gt1900]

Funny. I had the entire weekend off and never got a call, I was legal to fly as well. Makes me think that they were calling a lot less people then the pilots would like to believe! If they were that low on coverage. They would have called me!

 

[twepilot]

me too.

RV

 

[maxblast72]

When you sign on to Sharetran, the numbers at the right for month look pretty bad - soemthing like what Ty posted. 39% on-time departure, 59% on-time arrival. Completion factor still up around 99 percent though.

Those numbers you saw on Sharetran all weekend were only for July 1st. The daily and monthly numbers were identical and didn't change all weekend. Someone in the office must have to input the performance numbers into Sharetran (it isn't an up to date ticker like FTWeb has). The numbers didn't change all weekend until the normal office people got back in yesterday (Monday).

When the numbers were updated yesterday (meaning performance through Sunday, July 5th), the monthly numbers indicated a DOT on-time arrival rate of 76% and a completion factor of 99.5% (average less than 4 cancellations/day based on a 750 flights a day average through the period). Those are pretty good numbers for a holiday weekend considering how full the flights were.

 

[Ty Webb]

Funny. I had the entire weekend off and never got a call, I was legal to fly as well. Makes me think that they were calling a lot less people then the pilots would like to believe! If they were that low on coverage. They would have called me!

Hard to tell . . .they only call management to fly as a last resort.

 

[intooclose]

Dropped the F bomb on Fri night in BOS.....that is one of the CX.

 

[Ty Webb]

Dropped the F bomb on Fri night in BOS.....that is one of the CX.

Good for you. . . . . Wish more guys would do it when necessary . . . . Might put an end to the byzantine reserve system and the mixing of night and day pairings.

 

[Yuppyguppy]

Dropped the F bomb on Fri night in BOS.....that is one of the CX.

did you get a good night sleep at the environmentally friendly comfort inn?

 

[scarlet]

I liked the taxi light burned out, and return to the gate last night=classic !!!!

You want to help the company, just look at the ALK, JetBlue rates and who is helping who out? Capt. losing 15,000-25,000 a year and FOs losing more than that at our current rates.

Maybe one day we will all come together and demand a contract !

 

[Fubijaakr]

Don't worry, the ALK/AAI merger will fix everything for you.

 

[scarlet]

Yeah like having 7 hours taken from you from URPing...I hope people grow some balls and demand a contract soon ! Yes next contract they will still have to define what a reserve day is worth. No URPing, other companies pay more if you fly more than 75/85 hours, here they take money from you. ?

 

[DC10]

Don't worry, the ALK/AAI merger will fix everything for you./QUOTE]

I'd welcome just about any merger right now if it got rid of our current management group and hostile working environment.

 

[scarlet]

You can show any mgt team who runs the airline...I think we are almost there. When pilots see at other airlines they are losing 20-30,000 year here..not only in pay but additional money in retirement. A joke in per diem !! Lets go to Facebook and create a group...we can decide you can be in the circle....

 

[Fubijaakr]

Don't worry, the ALK/AAI merger will fix everything for you.

I'd welcome just about any merger right now if it got rid of our current management group and hostile working environment.

Darn! And I wanted to get rid of OUR managers. Rats!

 

[Secret Squirrel]

Darn! And I wanted to get rid of OUR managers. Rats!

You are probably right. The unholy offspring from the combination of our management DNA could bring on the antichrist. Maybe we should be careful what we ask for.

 

[njcapt]

You can show any mgt team who runs the airline...I think we are almost there. When pilots see at other airlines they are losing 20-30,000 year here..not only in pay but additional money in retirement. A joke in per diem !! Lets go to Facebook and create a group...we can decide you can be in the circle....

So when did you become born-again hard? Six months ago you were the biggest FL management apologist on the intarwebs and now you're inciting others to pick up the pitchforks. How about scrubbing yourself clean of the pu$$y stank and volunteering for some Union work. If you already have I'll be the first to apologize.

 

[j41driver]

Well, in May we had the worst on time performance of major airlines...only ASA and CMR were lower on the list. We can do "better" than this guys....

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/travel/2009-07-09-may-airline-performance_N.htm

 

[gt1900]

Common guys. Nobody wants anybodys managment team. Welcome to the airlines. All managment sucks! Its the way it has been, and the way it will always be. The only thing we can hope for is that any of our managment teams keep our airlines in business so we can all sit around and b1tch about how much we hate managment. Personally, Ill take AAI managment, at least then I know what I'm getting into, even if it still sucks! But I know a few guys at ALA who hate their management, a few at DAL, AMR, CAL, UAL, USAIR, UPS, and a couple others no name a few! As a matter of fact, I cant really think of anyone who likes their managment, with the exception of SWA. Welcome to the airlines...... Now, when do we strike?