ASA Crew food

[Speedtape]

Barney was a cop, his would have been a regular arrest. Did you even read the first line of my previous post? I think it is BS, but I would point out that the many of the pilot group would have made excuses for entitlement pre-contract if we had the meals then.

You must be married to a F/A! Pilots are perfect and the world revolves around us.HAHA

 

[Speedtape]

Wow, am I glad I'm not flying with this guy! I bet you buy your own water, ice, soda, peanuts, and hand wipes too.

If the company is paying retail for the Oakfield products each mini meal costs $2.85 for the blue ones, and $2.36 for the red ones. I'd be willing to bet we get a wholesale discount off these prices. As long as the company pays these girls welfare wages, I'm not getting too worked up about it, especially at these prices.

It doesn't matter whether they cost $2.85 or $75 like the thermal paper for the ACARS. They are intended for use by the crews that don't get breaks for long periods--not the ones that have two hour breaks, the ones that give them to the Rampers, or the ones that carry them home to their kids for lunch. The interesting thing is that they want even reorder them after they haul them off.

Welfare wages? Don't take the job! There must be plenty of people willing to work for those wages--they keep hiring them!

 

[Oakum_Boy]

Yes, but could we get better looking ones if they didn't pay welfare wages?

 

[bluefly72]

Yes, but could we get better looking ones if they didn't pay welfare wages?

Simple answer.....NO

 

[mtsupilot376]

Here is where it really gets bad. Tonight I watched a COMAIR F/A hand her catering order to the ramper and low and behold she stocked three of OUR D-O Mini Meals on board their CRJ-700 parked on the top of D concourse. After boarding to ask the captain to ride his jumpseat about half an hour later I entered the cockpit and the CA and FO had the mini meals by their light kits and he F/A was chowing down on hers in the back. I asked her about it and she proceeded to tell me how she thought they were the greatest idea and that she wondered why she could only order them in ATL. DUH.... B/C They don't belong to you. The worst part is that she then told me that she had told all her other F/A friends to be sure to order the crew meals and bring them back to CVG. WTF!!!!! I RIF'd that one like it was going out of style!

 

[Abernathy]

The worst part is that she then told me that she had told all her other F/A friends to be sure to order the crew meals and bring them back to CVG. WTF!!!!!

The last part is def. the worst part. They come out of our budget and there's a limited supply.

I don't feel as rotten about another pilot eating when they probably need it. Either way, better Comair than Freedom stealing our food.

Good thing you RIF'd it. That could have gotten out of control fast.

 

[Oakum_Boy]

Why, oh why, are the pilots having to RIF everything that goes on at this airline? Isn't that what managers are for? To manage the airline and the day-to-day operations so we can concentrate on flying?

 

[Caspian27]

Just out of curiosity for us non ASA types, what is RIF?

 

[cheerios2]

"reportable incident form"

 

[Abernathy]

Why, oh why, are the pilots having to RIF everything that goes on at this airline? Isn't that what managers are for? To manage the airline and the day-to-day operations so we can concentrate on flying?

How else are they going to know about what goes on on-line?

Managers aren't there to manage day-to-day operations. They are there to sit at desks and shoot the sh*t with each other.

 

[JettBoii]

I love Selma Hayek.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Give it time. As soon as the company realizes that Flight Attendants are taking these on their overnights, or gate agents are taking them off of planes, the program will go away.

The real shame will be when we have to buy our own food in the terminal, and we realize the Moo Moo Mr. Cow deal is gone.

 

[WalterSobchak]

Give it time. As soon as the company realizes that Flight Attendants are taking these on their overnights, or gate agents are taking them off of planes, the program will go away.

Sounds like the AirTran 1.5L water fiasco of 2005.

 

[172driver]

I think you guys need to step back and realize that those "meals" are not a gift and they are not being provided out of goodwill by the company.

Crewmembers need nutrition to operate airplanes, period. Giving you food keeps the airplanes moving. They wouldn't dispatch you with no fuel for the jet right? Same goes for the crew. Giving you meals allows them to build a more productive schedule and not have it fall apart due to the pilots running out of gas.

Even if some of the snack packs go to the hotel or to the rampies, it's not really that big a deal compared to the cost of misconnects, bumping, and rebooking hundreds of pax a day.

 

[PBRstreetgang]

AhhhAAhhh,
Who cares? My dog loves the jerkey treat red boxes and the yellow a$$flavored tuna kits too! If they wanna run the schedules so tight they gotta feed us expired UAL meals who cares who/what eats them. As for single engine taxi, no apu, that will last only until a hydraulic failure takes the brakes and steering away and a plane enters the terminal uninvited! Keep decreasing the safety margins, why carry so much fuel? How 'bout burn + 100lbs, no sense tankering too much "dead" weight around, how 'bout getting rid of those genius F/Os who want to taxi single engine, no APU. Or even better offer F/As free flight training in exchange for cabin service, they stay in the cockpit till 10000ft, then serve cokes till 10000ft, back to the cockpit. Or even better F/Os will now do cabin service above 10000ft.
Genius
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