regional hotel life

[Icelandair]

KPIH is that the red lion you guys stay at?

 

[Doug Parker]

Ummm, actually.....

At Air Midwest (part of Mesa Air Group). When we arrive in CLT before sunrise and don't leave till afternoon. The company provides us with 1 room for the CA and FO to share. There is no FA. They don't consider us "off duty".

But we do get two beds. The CA gets the TV remote control.

So what do you do when the captain pulls it out and starts whacking it ??


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[Sgt. Hartman]

When you go to the hotels you should get it on with the FA's. I hear that they are all smokin' hot and "F" like porn stars!

 

[cunaguaro]

you wish I'll say 0.0001% looks like that or maybe they were pstars 45years ago

 

[AlohaFlyer]

when overnighting, are you single or double occupancy? state the airline, please

gracias

I know that Gulfstream used to have an apartment with bunkbeds that it made its crew share on Bahamas overnights.

 

[PalmettoPilot]

What I would like to hear is some of the stories that people have while at the hotel.

Ex.
My crew arrived at the hotel after a 7 leg 11+ duty hour day. I got my key and went to my room. When I tried to open the door the key did not work (no suprise there) and there was someone in the room. I went back down to the front desk and they verified they gave my room away. All the other rooms in the hotel were full as were all other local hotels. The only other option was crash in the captains room or get a room that was listed as out of service. OK I will take the room with a few tiles loose in the shower. I go into the room to discover a hole in the bathroom wall big enough for me to step into and tiles overflowing the shower. Then to add to the fun, the front desk calls me at 630 am to give me my original room back after I had not gotten to bed till 230am. I hate KPIH!

That was the time to call crew scheduling, notify them that you are still on duty. The company did not provide the contractually required accomodations. Until those accomodations are provided, you remain on duty. It would fall under "local transportation". The company now needs to find a suitable hotel room for you, and transportation to get there. If that means they go to the next town, or 200 miles, so be it. Either way it wouldn't be local transportation and so your duty time doesn't end at block-in +15. BTW, I would also have notified the Captain of the situation. If you aren't provided an adequate place to rest, how can you be physically fit and mentally competant to fly a transport category aircraft?

 

[erj-145mech]

Ummm, actually.....

At Air Midwest (part of Mesa Air Group). When we arrive in CLT before sunrise and don't leave till afternoon. The company provides us with 1 room for the CA and FO to share. There is no FA. They don't consider us "off duty".

But we do get two beds. The CA gets the TV remote control.

So what do you do when the captain pulls it out and starts whacking it ??


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Be a good FO and get him a tissue? CA's authority and you're still on a pairing, right?

 

[WhiteCloud]

But we do get two beds. The CA gets the TV remote control.

At our company the FO gets the control and the CA tells him/her what buttons to push.

 

[TheRaven]

Ummm, actually.....

At Air Midwest (part of Mesa Air Group). When we arrive in CLT before sunrise and don't leave till afternoon. The company provides us with 1 room for the CA and FO to share. There is no FA. They don't consider us "off duty".

But we do get two beds. The CA gets the TV remote control.

What a freaking dirtbag company.....I knew it was bad there, but not that bad......do you each get your own towel, or do you share that too.

 

[erj-145mech]

What happens when all the hotel has left is a king room? Does the FO spoon the CA? Do they alternate?