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[mcjohn]

PSA is a decent gig. I kinda enjoy it.

 

[ex j-41]

So, what you're saying is that you're unhappy there are 20 IOE lines every month because you enjoy being on reserve? Dude, stop being an idiot! It may keep you on reserve now, but it's because there are lots of guys coming in UNDER you. If anything you should be glad that they are there. It wont last forever, and when it does, you're going to be privelaged enough to hold one of our lousy lines. By the way, in CLT I saw guys who are pretty close to being line holders that have been here for about 6 months. You have been here a lot longer, so you must be a lineholder by now. Upgrades are happening as we speak, are you ever going to be happy?

Folks, if you come to PSA just remember to regard it as a stepping stone. Sure a flowthrough would be very nice if US Airways is your kinda place...but when you open that logbook at an interview for the majors they aren't going to care where you got that flight time as long as it fills in the right columns. The regionals all suck, and quite frankly the majors are nothing like they used to be...duh!!!

Do yourselves a big favor...don't get into exJ41's mindset. You'll give yourself a heart attack and lose your medical. All of the whining in the world will never make the regionals anything more than slave labor sweat shops.

As far as crew meals.......it's a free sandwich. If you hate it that bad, go inside and buy something to eat. The crew meals certainly aren't prime rib, but it beats nothing and you know d@mn well there's always time to go get something else if you need to eat, so save your whining. That kinda sh!t is just gonna get those taken away, too.

They can't take them away cause they are in the contract. And i give the sandwiches to the ramp crew. They can eat the poisen. BTW the crew meals aren't free. We subsidize them with our cheap labor. SO if you are paying for lunch wouldn't you like it if it was actually good?

One other thing...Regionals suck because people believe that they are all stepping stones. Make it a decent place to work then you wouldn't have to take a job at the majors.
The regionals make money and so should we. I just don't buy into the whole old school thinking of things will never change. Grow a pair!

 

[LearLove]

actually fwiw I see many of your (psa and pdt) crewmeals in clt wind up on our aircraft via catering to our FA's. Our fa's eat that stuff up big time.

 

[WSurf]

Grrrrr.... I give my crewmeal to the ramp folks now! I don't think I could force down another one of the sandwiches again!
Funny thing is the ramp folks are starting to turn them down from me now! Should tell you something about the CLT crewmeals.

 

[mcjohn]

Sucks none of the CLT food courts will accept my food stamp card.

 

[NuGuy]

actually fwiw I see many of your (psa and pdt) crewmeals in clt wind up on our aircraft via catering to our FA's. Our fa's eat that stuff up big time.

Way, way back in the day, USAir would cater the 2:00+ PDT Dash flights (CLT-CAK, CLT-GNV, etc) with snacks. These were little boxes with little bitty sandwiches, a bit of fruit, and maye a Milano cookie.

It was standard practice to see 40 snacks in the catering box, so everyone got one. Of particular interest were the "tuna fish" boxes, since, believe it or not, the tuna was actually very edible, fruit was fresh, and the cookies of the Peppridge Farm variety.

Anyway, when flying with this one FA, she would always come up and say "sorry, no extras". We always figured that someone had asked for extras, had a lap child or something along those lines.

I was on the last day of a 4 day, and she was zipping up her suitcase, and turns out she was bogarting the whole box of snacks. She had like half a dozen of the tuna ones in her rollerboard, and the freaky thing is we had gotten them on the 1st day of the trip, so they had been flying around unrefrigerated for 4 daysuke: .

Yuk...

Nu

 

[OPECJet]

Sounds like P.H.

 

[olympus593]

I got to fly with P.J