ASA to displace again...

[COOPERVANE]

Barnum and Bailey airlines?

 

[Data]

I just read the jetstream transcript by CT. There was two things that struck me as interesting:
"we have six CRJ200s that leave the schedule Jan. 1, 2012. We’ll have a displacement bid out for those crews the week of Oct. 10. I also "believe" we will have some vacancy bids for Dulles"
Believe? How does he not know for sure? Isn't he the dir of FLT OPS. Displacements/vacancies have big impacts on people lives. Shouldn't he care enough about his employees to know for sure.

You must be fairly new to the industry. Delta has, on several occasions, asked many of its regionals to cover flying at the last minute. Would you rather they displace now so that you can 'plan' your busy schedule, or take it up to the bitter end as they try to secure flying for the 6 aircraft scheduled to the leave the system?

 

[Thebadcat1313]

ASA could finally have some spares in ATL if those 200's were to stick around....

 

[Smoke Toliet]

You must be fairly new to the industry. Delta has, on several occasions, asked many of its regionals to cover flying at the last minute. Would you rather they displace now so that you can 'plan' your busy schedule, or take it up to the bitter end as they try to secure flying for the 6 aircraft scheduled to the leave the system?

sigh......head shaking

 

[Oakum_Boy]

Well, you know, everything catches them by surprise. Dispatchers rarely look at anything but the forecast.

 

[spudskier]

Dispatchers rarely look at anything but the forecast.

...from the day before. Clear and a million? let's give you an alternate 500 miles away and bump 20 passengers.

 

[NoApu]

...from the day before. Clear and a million? let's give you an alternate 500 miles away and bump 20 passengers.

Look. Here's the deal. I promise not to judge all pilots based on your worst if you don't judge dispatchers based on our worst. And, as an added bounus, I'll stop telling the story about the Captain that asked me if there were spanish speaking agents in Monterrey MEXICO!

 

[spudskier]

Look. Here's the deal. I promise not to judge all pilots based on your worst if you don't judge dispatchers based on our worst. And, as an added bounus, I'll stop telling the story about the Captain that asked me if there were spanish speaking agents in Monterrey MEXICO!

Fair enough. That made me laugh. It's just almost every other leg we're getting filed at F370 in a CR2 for legs less than 30 minutes, alternates halfway across the country when the weather is gorgeous, etc... I know there are pilots doing things just as dumb in their respective positions and it's attention to detail on everyone's part.