Managers ARE going to F/A training

[BonTemps]

Just an FYI

The company did put out an alert asking DFW area management to go to F/A training. The bulletin was put out by Lauri Curtis this morning, my girlfriend told me about it, she's a low level manager at HDQ, I think a level 1 or 2. She is going to put in for it because she said she'd always wanted to try it, and wanted to see how hard it is, but they never hire

 

[TWU informer]

Go ask Robert Crandall how that plan worked out for him.

IIRC he threw an executive chair through a HDQ plate glass window and it fell crashing below.

 

[Skymess]

Just an FYI

The company did put out an alert asking DFW area management to go to F/A training. The bulletin was put out by Lauri Curtis this morning, my girlfriend told me about it, she's a low level manager at HDQ, I think a level 1 or 2. She is going to put in for it because she said she'd always wanted to try it, and wanted to see how hard it is, but they never hire

She sounds like a keeper.

 

[eolesen]

Go ask Robert Crandall how that plan worked out for him.

IIRC he threw an executive chair through a HDQ plate glass window and it fell crashing below.

Nice myth. I was working in CP5 at the time as an agent... Had a chair gone thru the window in '93, we would have heard about it. IIRC, it wasn't until the '97 pilots strike that we started hearing the chair/window rumor.

 

[nbmcg01]

Nice myth. I was working in CP5 at the time as an agent... Had a chair gone thru the window in '93, we would have heard about it. IIRC, it wasn't until the '97 pilots strike that we started hearing the chair/window rumor.

ALL FSMs are f/a trained and are required to keep up their quals. Probably just EPTs.

 

[TWU informer]

Nice myth. I was working in CP5 at the time as an agent... Had a chair gone thru the window in '93, we would have heard about it. IIRC, it wasn't until the '97 pilots strike that we started hearing the chair/window rumor.

Yeah you're probabaly right. The F/A strike was one of Crandall's better moments. That is why Arpey follows and repeats the history. Someone will soon light the match of Scorched Earth at AA. Is it you?

 

[BonTemps]

She sounds like a keeper.

She's not in the union or a FA, I can't tell her what she can and can't do. She knows that us in the TWU are getting a raw deal most likely, its gonna mirror the Mechanics etc we all know that..we arent blind I just hope they can not outsource Cabin Service. Anyways, she said she can't form an opinion about the FA's work until she walks in their shoes. People ask her about it all the time, at least she's not calling F/A's "glorified waitresses" like I have seen some do.

 

[floatingon9]

She's not in the union or a FA, I can't tell her what she can and can't do. She knows that us in the TWU are getting a raw deal most likely, its gonna mirror the Mechanics etc we all know that..we arent blind I just hope they can not outsource Cabin Service. Anyways, she said she can't form an opinion about the FA's work until she walks in their shoes. People ask her about it all the time, at least she's not calling F/A's "glorified waitresses" like I have seen some do.

Well, you can now say you're dating a SCAB!

 

[FA Mikey]

You actually have to cross a picket line to become a scab.

 

[Maark767]

Nice myth. I was working in CP5 at the time as an agent... Had a chair gone thru the window in '93, we would have heard about it. IIRC, it wasn't until the '97 pilots strike that we started hearing the chair/window rumor.

No thats not true ... It was in 1993 that the rumor of the chair going throw the window started. Not 1997.... I know that for sure.
Pilots did not shut the airline down, WE SHUT IT DOWN....

 

[nbmcg01]

No thats not true ... It was in 1993 that the rumor of the chair going throw the window started. Not 1997.... I know that for sure.
Pilots did not shut the airline down, WE SHUT IT DOWN....

Game on...

 

[The Goose]

Game on...

Only two groups within the airlines can immediately shut it down - the pilots (for obvious reasons) and the FAs (minimum ratio of passengers/FAs). Either of these two groups going on strike would be a way for Horton (our darling CFO) to justify a bankruptcy filing with a unionized workgroup as the goat.

Don't get me wrong - I'd like to see it shut down but unless palms have already been greased I can't see the NMB turning anyone loose in the present economy.

 

[Duke787]

Only two groups within the airlines can immediately shut it down - the pilots (for obvious reasons) and the FAs (minimum ratio of passengers/FAs). Either of these two groups going on strike would be a way for Horton (our darling CFO) to justify a bankruptcy filing with a unionized workgroup as the goat.

Don't get me wrong - I'd like to see it shut down but unless palms have already been greased I can't see the NMB turning anyone loose in the present economy.

Spirit Airline Pilots got released on May 12th, not as big as AA, but Florida will feel it.

http://industry.bnet.com/travel/10006211/spirit-pilot-strike-threat-worst-potential-than-large-airline-strike-threat/

 

[The Goose]

Spirit Airline Pilots got released on May 12th, not as big as AA, but Florida will feel it.

http://industry.bnet.com/travel/10006211/spirit-pilot-strike-threat-worst-potential-than-large-airline-strike-threat/

When I say turning "anyone" loose, I'm speaking of a significant entity such as American or another "major" - Spirit could go away and most would not notice its absence - a relatively minor player.

 

[Duke787]

No thats not true ... It was in 1993 that the rumor of the chair going throw the window started. Not 1997.... I know that for sure.
Pilots did not shut the airline down, WE SHUT IT DOWN....

I think you can do it again as long as AA doesn't hire replacements off the street like NWA did with mechs.