robbedagain said:
he is the man in charge of flight operations and if you recall the nightmare in phl as an everyday thing or the Christmas nightmare, Al Crellin and the rest of top mgmt got blamed by the FEDS for lack of employees but no apology ever came out from the top brass idiots. Lack of staff in Phl leads to an everyday nightmare issues and around christmas, millions of bags piled up and US Air used 767s 757s and 737s to ferry bags only to clt to have clt help figure out where the bags were suppose to be
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Don't forget that PIT also had to help out during that debacle, receiving many tractor-trailers full of bags to sort ON THE RAMP and IN THE MAKEUP AREAS, eventually sending them to their final destinations. The same thing happened during the notorious
baggage system breakdown at PHL previous to the Christmas Nightmare.
I remember Express at PIT having many full carts of bags to stations serviced by Saab 340's and Beechcraft 1900's and only being able to send expedite bags after loading flight-specific bags. It took the better part of a week for all of the expedites to disappear, but they all (eventually) were sent.
Now, considering how many destinations have been cut from PIT, if US has another PHL bag problem, there will be no way they can send as many bags to PIT, because the company simply doesn't fly where passengers want to go out of that station. All the better for the employees there, too, because they won't have to do work that should have been done by someone else.
It's sad, really. I think many customers miss using PIT to transfer between flights. That station used to offer so many destinations, and is still very passenger-friendly. I'm glad the ACAA is seeing record-breaking O/D numbers and new tenants, but I think US missed out big time on being a part of a Rennaisance in Pittsburgh.