Has anyone looked at the DFW tracers the last week? We had 3522 yesterday alone. At about $60 a tracer. A tracer can consist of 1 or more bags. That looks like about $210,000 down the tube. Why? There wasn''t any weather. AA''s new baggage system is so overloaded it can''t handle the loads. The rolling wave by design puts more bags into the bagroom systems. AA spent millions on a system that everyone who does the work said it won''t work. Initially they asked the workers, when they didn''t like our answers they stopped asking.
The next problem they hired the same group thet put the baggage system in DEN. Even talking with the contractors, who told us with all the changes AA wanted it won''t last. BINGO, where is the lightbulb here. There went several millions of dollars for a very questionable system. The net effect on manpower 2 less CC and 1 less FSC. Now add in all the tracers and lost customers and the added Overtime.
Seems like a case of someone in HDQ, another analyst coming up with a makework project that propagates their job. This will insure that job until they revert back to the old system or AA boes CH 7.
The next problem they hired the same group thet put the baggage system in DEN. Even talking with the contractors, who told us with all the changes AA wanted it won''t last. BINGO, where is the lightbulb here. There went several millions of dollars for a very questionable system. The net effect on manpower 2 less CC and 1 less FSC. Now add in all the tracers and lost customers and the added Overtime.
Seems like a case of someone in HDQ, another analyst coming up with a makework project that propagates their job. This will insure that job until they revert back to the old system or AA boes CH 7.