Airtran Open Mco & Bwi Bases

[scarlet]

Does anyone know how many hotel rooms we pay for in MCO, and BWI nightly?

I believe we could save millions in a years time, if we could cut out alot of the hotel stays. It may even keep some jobs.??

 

[Kharma Police]

Does anyone know how many hotel rooms we pay for in MCO, and BWI nightly?

I believe we could save millions in a years time, if we could cut out alot of the hotel stays. It may even keep some jobs.??

Let me guess, you live in Orlando?

 

[j41driver]

I want my click back...thought there was some actual news in here based on your thread title.

 

[scarlet]

No -but SWA saves alot of money by having people live where they fly the most !!! Common Sense I guess, No not in MCO--in NC

 

[Wesb737fo]

I want my click back...thought there was some actual news in here based on your thread title.

Got me too......not that I want to move away from Atlanta, but I would have been surprised if they opened a new base.

 

[BID]

Got me as well. I was surprised.

Thread starter ... I rec'd a question mark on your title!

 

[fletch717]

Does anyone know how many hotel rooms we pay for in MCO, and BWI nightly?

I believe we could save millions in a years time, if we could cut out alot of the hotel stays. It may even keep some jobs.??

Only, if you build day trips. Build a 3 or 4 day trip from Orlando or Baltimore and you still have hotel costs.

 

[DonVerita]

Jettison the $2 million per year Hotel Broker and handle all hotel procurement in-house. Use that money to get us out of anything with the word "Inn" in the name and into business-level hotels which is where we should be. Period.

 

[Colonel Savage]

Never could understand why "hub and spoke" airlines didn't build more day trips. Perfect structure for "out and back" type one days followed by going home, though it can get repetetive.

 

[LearLove]

when they offered me a class back in early 2001 they were saying that there should be a bwi base by the spring.

 

[CoolSidePillow]

I do not want to live in ATL.
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I do not want to live in ATL.
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I do not want to live in ATL.
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy...

 

[Secret Squirrel]

The union is probably negotiating it right now. The new LOA will offer BWI and MCO as virtual bases which may or may not be opened by the company at their discretion. If opened they may or may not remain open and have every right to close it at their whim. They will not pay for any relocation or expenses of employees. In return we will give up all per diem, all crew members have to pay for our own hotel rooms on overnights, and new hires will have to pay for training. In addition we agree to provide our own parking.

Somehow this is what the LOA would look like based on past LOAs and the union would spin it as a win.

 

[Lear70]

I want my click back...thought there was some actual news in here based on your thread title.

What do you expect, it's Scarlet, the management suck-up who is barely finished with consolidation and is already placing himself for an eventual check airman or PAB slot.

 

[Ty Webb]

when they offered me a class back in early 2001 they were saying that there should be a bwi base by the spring.

Check your facts. We didn't have squat going on in BWI until late in 2001, when MetroJet shut down . . . .

Ty

http://www.usatoday.com/money/biztravel/2001-09-24-metrojet.htm

 

[LearLove]

Check your facts. We didn't have squat going on in BWI until late in 2001, when MetroJet shut down . . . .

Ty

http://www.usatoday.com/money/biztravel/2001-09-24-metrojet.htm

no, I can clearly remember sitting in the interview portion of the interview and Jill making a remark that PHL to ATL will be an easy commute for me. Then I said that I plan on moving to ATL if hired being young and single bla bla bla .... and the other guy (training Capt - older with a deep deep texas drawl) mumbled something about "another yankee moving south" to which Jill mentioned a possible BWI base soon.

 

[scarlet]

That hurt Lear=thanks for your contribution !! You post on everything on FlightInfo ?? Go get a hobby, buy a boat, buy a bike..

We are thinking of ways to save the company money, not rip the company off. I look at other airlines and their operations, and wonder why SWA has a base in all these cities? Yes they have hotel stays, but they have alot of day lines too !!! Oh and yes so does CAL, they start with sch. day lines, not 4 days and work backwards. CAL you can cancel your hotel room and CAL pays you 20.00 for every hotel room you cancel. (I beleve it is 3 days in advance)

 

[LearLove]

wait - nobody told me I could bring a boat with me on overnights. And I thought lugging this laptop was a pain in the butt sometimes.

as far as bikes go, I have:

1. Gary Fisher MTB
2. Merckx Leader w/ ultegra
3. Merckx MX Leader w/ campy centaur
4. Merckx Corsa Extra (slurpee team colors, not built up)
5. Vin Dessel cross bike (single speed)
6. Bianchi Pista track bike (interm) while I await Mr. Pete Dreesens to finish my custom track bike (oversize lugged and catered for track sprinting, should be ready by sept).

 

[Lear70]

Scarlet, if you want to save the company money, why don't you start by volunteering for the Leave of Absence? I'm sure the CA's that have had to fly with you would appreciate it...

I don't post on very many threads on FI at all, actually, mainly just the ones where AirTran is discussed and someone says something ignorant or outright stupid. Or when someone from our company says something ignorant or outright stupid,,, on another airline's thread, perhaps...

With your rate of posts in the last year, you're going to pass me pretty quickly in total posts... as far as a hobby, kind of hard to have one when an immoral company forces you into a job flying 21-22 days a month and you're sitting somewhere in a hotel room after flying 13-16 hour days.

The lack of morality in this company just comes through again and again and again, and they just got through doing it again, yet you make one of your thinly-veiled protectional statements of them AGAIN? Even when YOU were one of the 177 about to be terminated as a threat to get what they wanted in a contract?

You have to be the biggest management suck-up of all time. Seriously.

Incidentally, a VIRTUAL base in MCO or BWI wouldn't greatly surprise me, but an actual base there with actual real base requirements would shock the crap out of me. Personally, I think the company is scared to DEATH of MemRat and is going to get as many LOA's through as they can before MemRat can be brought to vote and nips all that crap in the bud. MCO and BWI just *MIGHT* be a virtual base LOA sooner than later.

Some may like it in the beginning but, just remember, as a wise man who has been at this company much longer than me once said, "With virtual bases come virtual rules. Prepared to be screwed, it's what the company does."

 

[relief tube]

why do we think that Vjet management would do anything that the pilot's want, even if it made business sense?

 

[scarlet]

659 compared to 4,272.