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billSquared
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This is a tremendous statement concerning ASA's lack of mgmt of the ramp. Whenever there is a bad report about our operation, ASA mgmt makes another blank promise about how they're going to change things. "We're going to hire more people, buy more equipment, start a focus group", etc. What the ramp has lacked is intense, directed supervision. AD did wonders with maintenance, but you can establish maintenance practices from the back office and follow up by reviewing data. You can't run an environment as intense as the ATL ramp from the back office. In fact, by dividing AD's responsibilities our maintenance has suffered. The condition of the airplanes is not what it was and we're flying around with more deferals than in the past.
To run a ramp takes common sense, intensity, energy and a relationship with the people you supervise.
This is also a slap to SKYW mgmt. They knew about our ramp and the ineffectiveness of BL and his "leadership team". Yet they failed to send their own people to ATL to fix things. Instead they have rewarded them heavily for their inaction.
Not that we're geniuses either. But we see the operation first hand and are affected by it. And when we provide input it's just disregarded as whining from a disgruntled pilot group. Instead barriers are put up to make it harder to even get to our planes. DAL wants 25 minute turns in ATL, we can't even get from plane to plane in 25 minutes with the blocked doors and mazes in the way. Now ASA and SKYW mgmt are being "dissed" for their lack of attentiveness.
To run a ramp takes common sense, intensity, energy and a relationship with the people you supervise.
This is also a slap to SKYW mgmt. They knew about our ramp and the ineffectiveness of BL and his "leadership team". Yet they failed to send their own people to ATL to fix things. Instead they have rewarded them heavily for their inaction.
Not that we're geniuses either. But we see the operation first hand and are affected by it. And when we provide input it's just disregarded as whining from a disgruntled pilot group. Instead barriers are put up to make it harder to even get to our planes. DAL wants 25 minute turns in ATL, we can't even get from plane to plane in 25 minutes with the blocked doors and mazes in the way. Now ASA and SKYW mgmt are being "dissed" for their lack of attentiveness.
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