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ShyFlyGuy

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This is bullshhh!!! Ever since our airline started using this company called LodgeX, the pilots have suffered! One time it took 2 hours to get a room, 50 minutes the next, and right now I'm going on 3 hours. Seriously, it can't be that difficult. I'm sitting in the airport, fuming... I can't even START MOVING in the right direction for a hotel, because I don't know where they're going to put me! What a JOKE!

Anyone else have hard times with this company?

Shy

P.S. I really hate LodgeX, anyone get that feeling?
 
You had your opportunity to vote for a union and have someone to complain to over the summer.

The Colgan Pilot group has NO RIGHT to complain over anything. Go to Walmart, get some KY and get ready to take it.

Nothing personally against you Shy, no idea how you voted, but your pilot group as a hole deserves NOTHING.
 
Do you have Lodge X's number? I haven't needed to use it, but I have it, someone else might now if it helps to call them directly.
 
jtrain609 said:
You had your opportunity to vote for a union and have someone to complain to over the summer.

The Colgan Pilot group has NO RIGHT to complain over anything. Go to Walmart, get some KY and get ready to take it.

Nothing personally against you Shy, no idea how you voted, but your pilot group as a hole deserves NOTHING.
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Shut Up, this post isn't about the union, its about Lodge X.
 
TNHillbilly said:
Shut Up, this post isn't about the union, its about Lodge X.
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Actually it is about what a union can do for a pilot group.

We have Lodge X at ExpressJet. We had major issues with it before our union hotel committee met with the powers that be to address these issues.
 
jtrain609 said:
You had your opportunity to vote for a union and have someone to complain to over the summer.

The Colgan Pilot group has NO RIGHT to complain over anything. Go to Walmart, get some KY and get ready to take it.

Nothing personally against you Shy, no idea how you voted, but your pilot group as a hole deserves NOTHING.
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Ummm... we started using LodgeX when we were bought by Pinnacle. THEY have ALPA and THEY are the ones who were using it before us.

I do appreciate you not assuming how I voted, though. Using the logic that ALPA carriers use LodgeX, I am going to assume that getting ALPA onboard isn't going to change this situation.

Shy
 
Anyone have a number for them directly? Not the toll-free/local number listed on the website... those aren't working after-hours... how about a number DIRECTLY to the poor bastards working the pathetic company?

What are my options if this doesn't get resolved quickly? Thanks for any advice...

Shy
 
jtrain609 said:
Actually it is about what a union can do for a pilot group.

We have Lodge X at ExpressJet. We had major issues with it before our union hotel committee met with the powers that be to address these issues.
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Ok, we know that having a union would make our lives golden, but we still have a few more months before we vote again, so in the meantime, I guess we have to make do, and sometimes that means making sure we have a hotel.

Anyway I hate lodge X too.
 
I would contact someone on your Hotel Committee. That is the best way I have found to get hotel issues resolved pretty quickly.
 
Here it XJT, we use LodgeX. The company basically just $ucked for us in the beginning! Problem after problem with various hotels, etc. almost everyday and took forever for them to resolve it. After many complaints from various crewmembers, the union stepped in, along with the management and basically brought an end to the madness. It seems to be much more smoother now.
 
Go to a hotel of your choice and expense it. It may take a month to get the money, but you'll get some sleep now. That's the way I would handle that situation. Then again, my company would pay me back.
 
ShyFlyGuy said:
Ummm... we started using LodgeX when we were bought by Pinnacle. THEY have ALPA and THEY are the ones who were using it before us.
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LodgeX works fine at Pinnacle for the most part. The reason it works is because that if it doesn't it costs the company a fortune in cab fares, expensed hotel rooms, and delayed flights. Our contract is what gives us the right to shove the company's problems up their a$$.
 
I hope you adjust your release/report times appropriately. Maybe then, after some late first-flights-of-the-day, they'd get the message.
 
Adjust your show time to reflect the hit that your rest period takes. You might not have a contract but if enough crews start doing that you'll be rid of the issue VERY soon.
 
mamba20 said:
Adjust your show time to reflect the hit that your rest period takes. You might not have a contract but if enough crews start doing that you'll be rid of the issue VERY soon.
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I'm sure the warning letters, suspensions, terminations that can't be challenged will get the 9L pilots back in line.
 
Apparently I've been living under a rock, cause I've NEVER heard o this. What is the program, you show up and they put you in whatever hotel has rooms that night? You don't even know where you're going? wtf?
 
jtrain609 said:
You had your opportunity to vote for a union and have someone to complain to over the summer.

The Colgan Pilot group has NO RIGHT to complain over anything. Go to Walmart, get some KY and get ready to take it.

Nothing personally against you Shy, no idea how you voted, but your pilot group as a hole deserves NOTHING.
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First, as a whole there are a lot of us that voted in favor of the union. Secondly Lodge X is all over the industry in both union and non-union shops so it probably wouldn't matter. The way you used hole applies more to an anatomical feature that describes what your comment makes you look like.
 
Cardinal said:
Apparently I've been living under a rock, cause I've NEVER heard o this. What is the program, you show up and they put you in whatever hotel has rooms that night? You don't even know where you're going? wtf?
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We have very few overnights, and I think the kinks have been worked out for those cities that have scheduled overnights. The problem comes when it isn't a regularly scheduled overnight (TDY/weather or mech. cx).

Scheduling is so far behind in requesting a hotel room (they don't request it until you are ready to leave the airport), then LodgeX takes their time trying to find a room. LodgeX doesn't look at where the hotel actually is (they have booked rooms in a different city 30-40 minutes away) or whether there is any transportation available to/from the hotel.

By the way, if you are TDY, don't trust your schedule if there is a hotel listed, this is not always the correct hotel and doesn't even guarantee that a reservation has been made.
 
cjcpilot said:
We have very few overnights, and I think the kinks have been worked out for those cities that have scheduled overnights. The problem comes when it isn't a regularly scheduled overnight (TDY/weather or mech. cx).
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True. That's what happened all over the East coast last night, and I was one of the poor bass-turds left sitting at the airport.

Scheduling is so far behind in requesting a hotel room (they don't request it until you are ready to leave the airport), then LodgeX takes their time trying to find a room. LodgeX doesn't look at where the hotel actually is (they have booked rooms in a different city 30-40 minutes away) or whether there is any transportation available to/from the hotel.
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Right again, 20 minute van ride...

By the way, if you are TDY, don't trust your schedule if there is a hotel listed, this is not always the correct hotel and doesn't even guarantee that a reservation has been made.
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Are you following me around? That's what happened on my last pairing. I sat in the hotel lobby for only 45 minutes while we all waited for a fax from LodgeX. The hotel manager was so sweet, she kept checking on me and offering to call company so I could just get into a room. I knew that would set someone off over there, so I just hung tight and ate as much fruit from the basket in the lobby as I could in 45 minutes. They had to refill it twice. HA! Plenty of fiber in that next movement, if you catch my drift.

I don't know how they expect to keep a union off the property by handling things this way. It's going to happen! Unless there is a significant change in attitude at management (riiiiiight), a significant raise on the pay scale for the Q (or at least the promise thereof when we get a contract for more than the initial 15... riiiiiight), and a big change with crew scheduling (riiiiiight); then we're going to see someone (ALPA, Teamsters, IPA<--HAHAHA! RIIIIIIIGHT) on campus before the year is out.

Shy
 
LODGE X NUMBER IS........(drumroll)

(952) 767-8000

Just tell them who you are and who you work for and what you need.....Then prepare to be yelled at by Jackie. HAHAHAHAHA!
 

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