Bada Bing Closing!

[yournextFO]

or just use the weather link on the delta gate agents computer. works for me on a, b, c, d and e.

But unless they've changed it, you still can't access ourasa on those computers. Personally, when scheduling calls to play games, I like to look at Etrip before I call them back. This way I have a few minutes to determine the legality of what they are trying to do.

 

[JimmyKool]

ahhh.....the old asa day's.

 

[Speedtape]

"I can tell you this. Lot 3 rocks now because it's a ghost town. No more missing the bus while you drive around looking for a spot. There's always spots right near the sheds.

Staying was the best decision I've made in a while."


Keep up the good work! You have a lot of catching up to do!

 

[OCP]

So far lot S=sucks. If you fly at the time when the bus runs every 15 min then it might be great, but so far I've been in the lot for 3 pickups and 2 of them have been 40+ min waits. This is after 8pm, once after 11pm. Yes its 20 then, but when it takes over 45 min to get to your car, something is not right.

 

[~~~^~~~]

79%N1,

You check weather?

I thought those computers were for the rampers and air serve folks to buy things on ebay.

701EV

Nah them's for checking peeps on da' personal ads.

The proper technique seems to be to have one's pants tied on about level with the dangly bits, slumped half off the chair, extra points for smelling like a mixture jet A, sour unions and old socks while having a radio tuned to some sort of ramp ops frequency with the volume turned up loud enough to hear over a MD88 turning a JT8D off a start cart 10 feet away.

Bonus points for all the foregoing, plus the hair pick and holding a cell phone to argue with the girlfriend while checking out new prospects on the personal ads.

 

[Flybywire44]

Lot S is great. Saves me a few min off my drive. I don't have a problem parking. I have yet to see the 25 minute ride... Overall Lot S is saving me time, but they need to get the route redone. The ride there is twice as long as it has to be.

 

[CFI2766]

I believe that it is in the contract that we have to be able to print out our pairing. If we cant do that from the gate agents computers, I see some delayed flights from having to trek from wherever you are at all the way to C55 to check the new schedule.

This is an idea that really hasn't been thought all the way through. Much like when updates and revisions stopped being put in each of our folders, this is an action to save time and effort on the part of the IT guys at the expense of shifting more burden on to the pilots.

 

[crjskipper]

nothing in the contract says that you have to be able to print a pairing, the company must make computers available in domicile, it doesnt say anything about on each concourse. i have been flying on a, b and south d more than c but never felt a need to have a lounge on d. we are getting a new, nice lounge and all people on here do is bitch about the dump on d closing.

 

[79%N1]

And now the crew shuttle service has been eliminated. It was useful many times, especially when you parked at E and had to get to C. I don't blame them, though, if it really cost ASA $10,000 per month!

 

[SLUF4]

How could it be costing 10K a month? Just lease 2 vans and hire a few people to staff it. The fuel couldn't be that expensive for that type of operation. Sounds kinda like that $70 acars paper we had.

 

[jegermeister]

If you had cleaned it up, Mesaba management would not have even considered it. Nothing but small, dirty and nasty for Mesaba crews. All of our crew rooms are shamefully sh!tty.

Be sure to put all of your broken chairs in there, and we'll feel right at home.

I haven't worked at ASA for a while, and didn't know that Mesaba had come to ATL.

The divide and conquer mentality of the airlines buying feed, reminds me why I left. Congrats to the folks at Mesaba and their new opportunity. My thoughts and best wishes to all of my friends at ASA.

 

[JettBoii]

What worse is they shut down the crew shuttle due to a cost of 10K a month. I bet they could find someone much cheaper.

 

[Speedtape]

Suggestion: Buy/Rent/Lease a Caravan for about $450 per month,including insurance. Hire furloughees for $10 per hour to drive. 3 x $1600 per month=$4800 + $450 = $5250. Save about $5000 per month, employ our own(who are already screened), and keep a valuable service. AND QUIT SPENDING $750 per roll of thermal paper for the ACARS! I can get it for $4.53.

Or--use Ready Reserves as drivers--they are already being paid to listen to their I-pods and play video games. (Ooooops!) They could still listen to their I-pods and could practice their defensive driving skills in playing Dodgem-Tugs--the real game of the Airline Ramp World!

Please pass it on to our D.O. I don't have his email address.

 

[SLUF4]

I'll start my own company and do it for about 6K a month.

 

[777forever]

Good idea. Regionals should strongly consider offering part time jobs within the company to their new FOs. Makes the company more efficient and helps poorly paid FOs make some extra coin.

 

[sweptback]

Good idea. Regionals should strongly consider offering part time jobs within the company to their new FOs. Makes the company more efficient and helps poorly paid FOs make some extra coin.

That would be an admission that they aren't paying a livable wage to their pilots -- a PR disaster. Never would happen.

 

[JettBoii]

The airport wouldnt approve it.

 

[Jack-O-Lantern]

Everything that they did to help with on time performance is all being taken away ie. crew shuttle , crew meals, which will soon have to be obtained at the C crew room,and computers at the Bada Bing lounge.I for one, when parking at D, will not be walking all the way to the C crew room for a couple hand fulls of trail mix. It's back to taking meal breaks for physiological needs, and long walks for those aircraft swaps. Watch, on time performance will suffer greatly.
Poor choice by management on this one!

 

[buscap]

I honestly believe the crewmeals and shuttle did little to improve on-time performance. While there may be some anectdotal stories otherwise, I doubt very much the shuttle in particular did any good.

I recall more than once; the shuttle wasn't there right away. I told the crew they could wait for it if they wanted to. I hoofed it and beat them to the plane, every time.

As far as the crewmeals. I witnessed them being used as just palin snacks usually. It sees to me crews who want to run on time, will run on time, no matter what. Those folks bring their own food. Some box of vein clogging crap is not going to make a difference.

 

[JettBoii]

Crew meals....lol.