Question for ASA Pilots

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I started using it again after the "Don't taze me, bro!" incident. Don't ask me why, it just stuck in my head.

That's good. Did you get the bumper sticker from Bill O?

 

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Okay then. What do they call it then in the Inter-mountain west. Huh?

I'm not sure. Do they sit on the porch and play the banjo?

 

[WalterSobchak]

That's good. Did you get the bumper sticker from Bill O?

Neg...Bill O can rot.

I'm not sure. Do they sit on the porch and play the banjo?

No, no, no...that's Georgia...

 

[fltdspx]

I think everyone has somewhat of a handle on how things at ASA works but I think it's pretty bad though when a sector manager gets power hungry and doesn't care about the pax and still makes the crew swap to another aircraft. I mean if the aircraft is fixed and they are ready to go then let it go. I don't remember anything about the plot having to be correct in order for the flight to leave. As long as MTC says it's airworthy and me and the CAPT. agree then I think I will let the flight leave on time and just deal with what ever wrath comes my way. Sometimes a Dispatcher needs to stand up and be heard and do the right thing. My fellow co-worker is tired as well as I am of the power hungry sector manages who have egos and just don't care about the pax.

 

[ASA DX]

I think everyone has somewhat of a handle on how things at ASA works but I think it's pretty bad though when a sector manager gets power hungry and doesn't care about the pax and still makes the crew swap to another aircraft. I mean if the aircraft is fixed and they are ready to go then let it go. I don't remember anything about the plot having to be correct in order for the flight to leave. As long as MTC says it's airworthy and me and the CAPT. agree then I think I will let the flight leave on time and just deal with what ever wrath comes my way. Sometimes a Dispatcher needs to stand up and be heard and do the right thing. My fellow co-worker is tired as well as I am of the power hungry sector manages who have egos and just don't care about the pax.

That's exactly what i was saying..my post did not come off in any sort of rant. The post started for "ASA Pilots" not skywest dispatchers. Just b/c things are flowing nice on your end of the spectrum, doesnt mean its that way everywhere. If you defend your sector managers on their decisions to swap, then that is kool...sounds like you might have some
pretty decent managers over there. See if any of them want to come on over and work with us..haha. All I was doing conveying to our crews, the type of ppl we have in our managment department making the swaps..I just quoted the last message on the board in that indivdual topic...nothing was directed at anyone in your company.

 

[WalterSobchak]

Just b/c things are flowing nice on your end of the spectrum, doesnt mean its that way everywhere.

Have you seen ORD (and just about every available alternate for ORD) today?

 

[ASA DX]

Have you seen ORD (and just about every available alternate for ORD) today?

nope..

 

[ASA DX]

Have you seen ORD (and just about every available alternate for ORD) today?

How many planes on your desk is in and out of the ORD airport? Surely not your entire fleet. I agree that you guys got some crap to deal with. You named the four or five hubs that you guys work with, and some of those airports can go in the crap. But honestly I would rather have that then every single flight running in and out of 1 airport. I might have a HSV-CVG or something on my desk, but other then that everything is either to/from ATL. And when ATL is in the can, or we have grd delay, or EDTC times, or miles in trail then it calls for a long day. I used to love the days when we had two hubs of DFW and ATL...at least you knew then that you were going to get a break every now and then if 1 of those two airports were in the clear. Plus if DFW was getting hammered the crews couldn't call in on the flight control freq and prolong your day..haha Which also made your job little easier. If ORD is in the can today..imagine that your are on the ORD airport property, your entire fllet of a/c dept or arrive there. With all that being said, all your a/c are just one click away on the radio of being able to call in for answers...thats what we got when ATL is in the can..

 

[fltdspx]

Yea I wander sometimes back when we had DFW and ATL how the DFW crews could handle things without talking to Dispatch on 131.15... LOL.. I mean I hate the damn freq. it needs to go by by and use ACARS and delta radio.. oops I think I have the thread started already somewhere else...lol....Also I would agree with ASADX that for most of the time not every single hub is going to have crap wx. so at least you get a break dispatching that hub.. of course it may happen from time to time but not all the time.. having one hub that gets hammered suxs...

 

[homerjdispatch]

How many planes on your desk is in and out of the ORD airport? Surely not your entire fleet. I agree that you guys got some crap to deal with. You named the four or five hubs that you guys work with, and some of those airports can go in the crap. But honestly I would rather have that then every single flight running in and out of 1 airport. I might have a HSV-CVG or something on my desk, but other then that everything is either to/from ATL. And when ATL is in the can, or we have grd delay, or EDTC times, or miles in trail then it calls for a long day. I used to love the days when we had two hubs of DFW and ATL...at least you knew then that you were going to get a break every now and then if 1 of those two airports were in the clear. Plus if DFW was getting hammered the crews couldn't call in on the flight control freq and prolong your day..haha Which also made your job little easier. If ORD is in the can today..imagine that your are on the ORD airport property, your entire fllet of a/c dept or arrive there. With all that being said, all your a/c are just one click away on the radio of being able to call in for answers...thats what we got when ATL is in the can..

Blah, blah, blah, MINES BIGGER THAN YOURS, blah blah blah.....

This whole argument is getting stupid. I hope all the pilots reading this thread are getting a good laugh..i dont see any other value in it!

 

[WalterSobchak]

Blah, blah, blah, MINES BIGGER THAN YOURS, blah blah blah.....

This whole argument is getting stupid. I hope all the pilots reading this thread are getting a good laugh..i dont see any other value in it!

Holy crap...we are slowly starting to sound like "them". Only a little less dramatic and whiney.

 

[fltdspx]

Holy crap...we are slowly starting to sound like "them". Only a little less dramatic and whiney.

Oh hell we need to turn it towards them..LOL

 

[shamrock]

This whole argument is getting stupid. I hope all the pilots reading this thread are getting a good laugh..i dont see any other value in it!

I sure find it amusing. Now I know how dispatchers feel reading this forum.

 

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Yea I wander sometimes back when we had DFW and ATL how the DFW crews could handle things without talking to Dispatch on 131.15... LOL..

Two reasons..
1. ASA didn't have all the cry babies that they do now. They knew how to improvise on their own two feet.

2. A great group of pilots with good Chief Pilots.