ASA aircraft swap premium

[asa rat]

Heard a conversation on company freq. from a crew that was wanting to keep their a/c because of running late and tight turns in ATL (swapping all three times while in ATL). MOD said "call on the landline"
Apparently he didn't want the conversation on the radio and you can guess why.

It would be interesting to negotiate an "aircraft swap premium" and watch the company's response, my guess is most of the swaps would disappear just like repo pay changed "repositioning needs".

You need me to swap planes, concourses, fret over lunch, fine... PAY ME

 

[~~~^~~~]

We have been swapping every round trip, from C to D, E and back. At then end of the day we end up on the same airplane we started with. I think this may simply be a trick so they can justify putting down the late flights as "crew delays." If you notice, the only place in the system where we have any "crew delays" is Atlanta. Statistics that make you go - hmmmm.

I wonder why all the effort is being made to cover up the obvious problem that our ramp staff is overwhelmed and underpaid?

If the ramp (tower), put down the real times ad the real delay codes maybe they would have the information they need to fix the problem. Instead trying to hide it just makes it worse.

 

[HoserASA]

The company doesn't realize (or do they even care) that swapping planes, and changing concourses from D to C, will result in flight delays. Is it the crews fault? In their eyes perhaps, but it takes a good 15 minutes at least to change concourses. Then there's all those food vendors along the way, the crew lounge, indoor plumbing, etc etc that add to the time.

Hoser

 

[~~~^~~~]

Yes - but then in their little report the delay goes under "crew delay" so the middle level supervisor is still doing a great job getting less than 40% of the flights out of Atlanta "on time."

It is all about blame shifting and not about results. As you can see in his report, Bryan LaBreque doesn't seem particularly upset about our performance as long as it is the result of the un-announced job action being taken by the ASA pilots.

What I want to know is if SkyWest feels the same way. ASA is losing a lot of bonus money which makes up most of our profit. Unlike Delta, SkyWest is in this business to make money and reward its shareholders. When SkyWest's profits nose dive because of ASA's lousy performance - will SkyWest be satisfied with the excuse that "it is all the pilots'" fault?

Someone needs to inform those guys that when we are late - it is the flight crew that loses sleep, loses time at home and often loses pay. Pilots don't like being late - in fact, I absolutely hate making apologies for every single leg while our poor, miserable, passengers are all stressed out about missing connections.

 

[shamrock]

The company doesn't realize (or do they even care) that swapping planes, and changing concourses from D to C, will result in flight delays.

I don't think they do.