Flight Attendant KCM thread.

[fletch717]

You work for a regional don't you.

You must be married to an aisle donkey.

 

[charlie2]

You must be married to an aisle donkey.

Nope military lady but my FA's are usually great and I would never call them that...who the heck do you work for?

 

[OK3]

Charlie,
Not sure where the hostility comes from. At crew bases we don't go through security as a "crew". Also about half the time on a trip we don't go through security as a "crew" because our FAs lines don't match up with ours. So having said that I think increasing KCM "customers" by 200% without the same increase in access points will cause problems. Maybe I am not smart enough to keep up with your dizzying intellect though.

 

[charlie2]

Charlie,
Not sure where the hostility comes from. At crew bases we don't go through security as a "crew". Also about half the time on a trip we don't go through security as a "crew" because our FAs lines don't match up with ours. So having said that I think increasing KCM "customers" by 200% without the same increase in access points will cause problems. Maybe I am not smart enough to keep up with your dizzying intellect though.

Ha ha no one has ever used the word "intellect" about me ever!! At Airways we stay as a crew the whole trip but I know other companies split up so I guess I understand your point of view. I have always been hostile to anyone who thinks a working crew member needs to have their finger nail clippers taken from them for safety reasons. This really happened to me and a little while later I was controlling a high speed fuel laden missle called a 737. If the govna ever figas out how to hire peple who know how to program a computa than the KCM really will make us safer. It's funny how this CASS and KCM is taking years you know it really shouldn't.

 

[Lear70]

Not to mention a vast majority are 3 pounds of crazy in a 2 pound bucket.

LOL - I have F/A friends but really, that's the funniest thing I've heard all day...

The problem with having F/A's in the KCM isn't the 4-7-10 year F/A employees at major airlines making $60k plus a year who respect their job enough not to f*ck it up for everyone, but the regional F/A who makes $18k a year who decides to smuggle something through, gets busted, and ruins it for the rest of us.

Sorry, but there IS a DIRECT correlation to age and income level and ability to handle responsibility. Deal with it.

 

[SSDD]

Yeah, cause the FA who pulled the chute and jumped out of the airplane with the beer was working for a regional...and the FA who started screaming that the airplane was not safe to fly was working for a regional...and the ones that were smuggling coke from Puerto Rico were working for a regional...NOT!!!

 

[Lear70]

There are always exceptions to the rule, but in my experience, someone who has more to lose will (usually) steer clear of jeopardizing their employment.

Incidentally, the two issues you are talking about contribute absolutely NOTHING to the discussion as it pertains to KCM. They didn't smuggle something through security that would get the program shut down, they simply wigged out on the job, as did a PILOT recently.

The last issue you raise is valid, however I can name a couple Eagle pilots who were caught smuggling drugs up from SJU to MIA as well as your F/A's.

Point being, there are always stupid people in every group. I will, however, continue to maintain that people with more to lose (high-income careers for their education level) will err on the side of good judgment more often that those with less to lose (more or less than they'd make selling phones at Verizon).

YMMV

 

[Grandpa +65]

If they want to include FAs. Won’t be too long that sky cap, wheelchair pusher, gate agent, rampers wants to be part of the KCM program too

 

[list2002]

How much union dues have the FA's ponied up for KCM to date?

 

[crash312]

If they want to include FAs. Won’t be too long that sky cap, wheelchair pusher, gate agent, rampers wants to be part of the KCM program too

Most of them already are...its called SIDA badges

 

[flythere]

It's funny how this CASS and KCM is taking years you know it really shouldn't.

That's anything that our Federal Gov't gets its hands on!! Wait until they start managing and running health care, You'll have to wait 5 years for routine procedures!!

Just look at Amtrack, the US Postal Service and TSA, three outfits run by the Federal Gov't!

 

[SplitBar]

Probably the plan by TSA. Open the program up to everyone with a pulse and just wait for the stuff they catch coming thru the door.

Then shut the whole thing down holding up all the crap they 'caught people with'.

Good for the F/A's. They deserve it as much as we do and that's less waiting in line for passengers.

 

[Dirk]

Good for the F/A's. They deserve it as much as we do and that's less waiting in line for passengers.

FAs dont deserve anything. And who cares about passengers having to wait in line.

 

[B727FA]

No, we don't need to let chair pushers, et al through on KCM/CASS--they're not crew on an a/c. Sheese...you lose your credibility when you make comments like that. I think "Dirk" is just pissy b/c he's lost some of his "status" and can't believe someone thinks FA's are actually professionals, too. Dirk--take your 4 posts and sit back, listen and learn something.

 

[charlie2]

No, we don't need to let chair pushers, et al through on KCM/CASS--they're not crew on an a/c. Sheese...you lose your credibility when you make comments like that. I think "Dirk" is just pissy b/c he's lost some of his "status" and can't believe someone thinks FA's are actually professionals, too. Dirk--take your 4 posts and sit back, listen and learn something.

ha ha ha