A/C On flight causes Illness

[Travel Is My Life]

By any reasonable metric, performance or financial this airline is running better then it has for at least the last 10 years. So obliviously your metrics are unreasonable?

What is your point other than to bash the airline?

Unfortunately, I think bashing the airline is the only point of that particular member.

 

[VAflyGal]

Was this the same aircraft that was involved in the fumes incident back in December? We heard that both pilots had there medicals pulled due to illness along with the flight attendents still out sick with with some sort of toxic poisoning?

No, it wasn't the same plane.
Flight 1106 23 July B757 AC# 253

The fumey plane is 251, which, since the sick issue, has gone through more replacing and testing than what happens on a D check.

 

[US Oringinal]

Hopefully this will put an end to boarding aircraft with no working APU or outside air. It's not only uncomfortable for passengers and crew...IT'S DANGEROUS!!

With as hot as it has been, crews(especially pilots) should absolutely REFUSE to board and aircraft that has no functioning A/C. There is an A-330-300 that has had an inop APU all summer and has been boarded many times without proper A/C...temperatures defintely exceeded 90 degrees in the cabin on 2 occasions I was on this aircraft in Philly. If Pilots would start refusing to board passengers under these conditions, these aicraft would get fixed a lot more quickly....

 

[AstroLounge]

Hopefully this will put an end to boarding aircraft with no working APU or outside air. It's not only uncomfortable for passengers and crew...IT'S DANGEROUS!!

With as hot as it has been, crews(especially pilots) should absolutely REFUSE to board and aircraft that has no functioning A/C. There is an A-330-300 that has had an inop APU all summer and has been boarded many times without proper A/C...temperatures defintely exceeded 90 degrees in the cabin on 2 occasions I was on this aircraft in Philly. If Pilots would start refusing to board passengers under these conditions, these aicraft would get fixed a lot more quickly....

Agreed. There is absolutely NO EXCUSE for operating aircraft with INOP APU's for more than one flight until a repair is made......especially in Extreme Hot/Humid conditions. The A330-300 has been flying around for weeks and needs to be pulled out of service. All they need to do is have a major health crisis with heat related injuries and I see major legal issues for what is an utterly disregard for pax and crew. Fix the damn things already! What's the problem with fixing the APU or using ground power to cool the a/c on the ground anyhow? Is it the cost or the time out of service that is the factor?

 

[flybynite]

If I'm not mistaken....one of the things AWA swore would never happen was this. They are supposed to know about heat.....Because they are from PHX. What BS!!!

Hmm?

Well now...

I've been flying aircraft for months now that have inop air packs. 737-400's. It's been miserable.

Needless to say...I've been sweating like a hog. And so have my pax.

Enough!!!!

Fix the damn things!!!!

 

[Furloughd4now]

Its not just the inop APUs. How many air-conditioned jetbridges in CLT have you seen? I have not seen one and I've had 5 days off this month. You know what that means? The rest I've been on an airplane flying in and out of CLT.

When they hook up ground air 90% of the time it has kinks in it so the air won't flow. In 10 minutes your plane is hotter than .....

So between the hot jetbridges and no ground air, that tin can heats up in a nano-second. This last week the heat index for several days were over the 100 degree mark.

I have found pro-active Pilots and A FAs that are able to get the situation resolved. Otherwise everyone else turns a blind eye to it. It is absurd and needs to stop!

 

[NYGiantsFan90]

Every jetway in CLT has ground air.

 

[Furloughd4now]

Every jetway in CLT has ground air.

Doesn't mean they have them turned on. Take a stroll through the B n C Concourses and do a random walkthrough of some jetbridges. I bet half of them are hot. Should be in the 90s today in CLT.

 

[UPNAWAY]

"Otherwise everyone else turns a blind eye to it."

That is the real issue. People need to stop complaining and take ownership, show initiative! If you’re Sup or managers is a wus go around them. Read the Chairman’s Award nominations on Wings, they are for a bunch of self starters that did their own research and fixed things instead of waiting for someone else to do it for them.

 

[Harry Callahan]

If I'm not mistaken....one of the things AWA swore would never happen was this. They are supposed to know about heat.....Because they are from PHX. What BS!!!

Hmm?

Well now...

I've been flying aircraft for months now that have inop air packs. 737-400's. It's been miserable.

Needless to say...I've been sweating like a hog. And so have my pax.

Enough!!!!

Fix the damn things!!!!

Why do you take the damn thing ?

 

[NYGiantsFan90]

Doesn't mean they have them turned on. Take a stroll through the B n C Concourses and do a random walkthrough of some jetbridges. I bet half of them are hot. Should be in the 90s today in CLT.

I think you are confusing what ground air on a jetway is, ground air is an a/c unit on the jetway that provides heat or a/c to the plane via a hose hooked up to an airplane.

The jetways themselves are not air conditioned or heated.

An inop airpack has an MEL which is time limited to be repaired or the plane is grounded, the time frame on such an MEL is not months.

 

[john john]

"Otherwise everyone else turns a blind eye to it."

they are for a bunch of self starters that did their own research and fixed things instead of waiting for someone else to do it for them.

Not the HP way management loves stepford agents

 

[RealisticObserver]

Agreed. There is absolutely NO EXCUSE for operating aircraft with INOP APU's for more than one flight until a repair is made......especially in Extreme Hot/Humid conditions. The A330-300 has been flying around for weeks and needs to be pulled out of service. All they need to do is have a major health crisis with heat related injuries and I see major legal issues for what is an utterly disregard for pax and crew. Fix the damn things already! What's the problem with fixing the APU or using ground power to cool the a/c on the ground anyhow? Is it the cost or the time out of service that is the factor?

PLANE # 271 - PLANE # 271!!!

 

[BajaBabe]

Look at Crew News they are acting as if it was not too problematic this was a 6 hour plus ordeal. This flight was a nightmare and the Company can not expect this situation to be swept under there carpet.

 

[SS255]

Look at Crew News they are acting as if it was not too problematic this was a 6 hour plus ordeal. This flight was a nightmare and the Company can not expect this situation to be swept under there carpet.

The Company will not state anything which would make them appear liable. It would not surprise me if every communication put out by US is picked apart by the lawyers before it gets unleashed.

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