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Jeez....If they had a mass drug test of our rampers we would all be waiting on the ramp till the tires lost air pressure.
 
razorbacks said:
Working for comair I have to agree with the previous posts. Coming in and out of JFK and ATL several times in the last few days I've had to make the same PA's. We don't even bring liquor cab.'s in / out of ATL. My guess is that the company knows how much we will lose in "comps" if we have them onboard. great customer service
Also, i witnessed first hand today what you guys have been saying about doing the rampies work. I saw 2 separate ASA CA's carrying ice and drinks out to their airplanes because the ramp crews were taking so long. Don't get on my spelling...i know i can't spell.

30 minute wait to park last nite(ops insisted the plane on our gate was ready to push, even though he still had the cabin door open and people boarding). Then on the outbound 30 minute wait for baggage after we had been boarded up and closed the door. We were the lucky ones.

That place is miserable.
 
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This place amazes me a bit....instead of hiring a few more rampers at about $9/hr they would rather pay the flight crews a combined $100 or so to sit on the ramp waiting for parking!!! One extra hour of that....which happens ALL THE TIME, would pay for 10 extra rampers. I'm no math expert, but that doesn't make any sense!
 
wmuflyguy said:
30 minute wait to park last nite(ops insisted the plane on our gate was ready to push, even though he still had the cabin door open and people boarding). Then on the outbound 30 minute wait for baggage after we had been boarded up and closed the door. We were the lucky ones.

That place is miserable.
How do you guys get so lucky? I never get to wait like that! I bid high block all summer hoping for long delays and ground stops. Nothing. Nada. Zip! How the he!! do you do it?

Maybe it a conspiracy....
 
ohplease! said:
How do you guys get so lucky? I never get to wait like that! I bid high block all summer hoping for long delays and ground stops. Nothing. Nada. Zip! How the he!! do you do it?

Maybe it a conspiracy....

Once again, Ohplease, you've been touched by the hand of God. My guess it that everyone else is just making this stuff up. It's a darn good thing you're on here to get the truth out there. Here's one I had a couple of weeks ago: CAE-ATL, flight time=40 minutes, time to get parked=40 minutes.

-Blucher
 
Blucher said:
Once again, Ohplease, you've been touched by the hand of God. My guess it that everyone else is just making this stuff up. It's a darn good thing you're on here to get the truth out there. Here's one I had a couple of weeks ago: CAE-ATL, flight time=40 minutes, time to get parked=40 minutes.

-Blucher
tell me your secret. I want more block time for July. Right now I'm only up to 104 hr. credits.
 
ohplease! said:
tell me your secret. I want more block time for July. Right now I'm only up to 104 hr. credits.

Yeah, if you include your 20 hours credit for being Scott Hall's richard-recepticle.

Moron, the cubicle next to you is calling. Its Scott and Bryan, they have something that gozinya.

Enjoy
 
ohplease! said:
tell me your secret. I want more block time for July. Right now I'm only up to 104 hr. credits.

My secret is that I work for a managment that would rather spend their efforts covering up problems rather than exposing them and fixing them. It could really be a great company if it's "leaders" were willing to actually step up to the plate once in a while.
All these new frequencies in ATL are laughable. Nat's the only one who ever answers and when he does he sounds just like our PA's "don't shoot the messenger, sir, I'm only relaying a message from your 'gate keeper'." I also find it amusing that these mysterious "gate keepers" sit in some room somewhere (apparently with their radio volume too low) unable to actually see the gates/planes and try to tell us that the plane you're waiting on has been cleared already while at the same time you're looking right at it, not 50 feet away, and you can see they've just started to board. When you ask if you can just have the open spot right next to the one you are scheduled for that's still boarding, the answer is inevitably "aaahhhh...no, sir, aahhh...I've...aaahhh got an aircraft on the ground for that...aaahhh...spot. He...ahh...just...landed." Oh yeah? We'll I'm one of your airplanes that's on the ground and I've already been here waiting for it! Why not put me in it and then put the one that just landed into the spot I was scheduled for? It's the same danged gate!!

-Blucher:mad:
 
ohplease! said:
How do you guys get so lucky? I never get to wait like that! I bid high block all summer hoping for long delays and ground stops. Nothing. Nada. Zip! How the he!! do you do it?

Maybe it a conspiracy....

Maybe it is jsut luck....but seems many other people are having the same problem, so it isn't just me. make sure you fly through there at like 5pm during the pushes, that hould get you some extra time.
 

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