A-B-C-D

[tadjr]

I am curious if anyone can clarify what exactly the purpose of the "alphabetize" memo to fleet is about. Our manager didnt even post it because he said he would be laughed out of the station. Appearantly a memo came from Tempe to have the bag room alphabetize the bags on the carts before they come to the plane. (I couldnt get clarification if it was alphabetize by city code or customer name because the manager was laughing so hard they couldnt answer me). Anyway it came with a nice little diagram of 3 carts lined up 1) A-J 2) K-Q and 3) R-Z (or something similar). Can someone answer just what this is supposed to accomplish? Do we not have better things to do than to put out memos to alphabetize the bags on the carts? No wonder we're in the shape we're in if this is the best policy and procedure that Tempe can come up with.

*Of course if someone can give me a really good reason and explanation as to what this would accomplish and how it would help US, then I'd be willing to apologize. (Not holding my breath though.) h34r:

 

[nycbusdriver]

Oh, great.

That's just going to make it that much harder to hire rampers in PHL. Now they're going to have to be drug-free, criminal record-free, AND know the alphabet!

 

[singh4us]

I am curious if anyone can clarify what exactly the purpose of the "alphabetize" memo to fleet is about. Our manager didnt even post it because he said he would be laughed out of the station. Appearantly a memo came from Tempe to have the bag room alphabetize the bags on the carts before they come to the plane. (I couldnt get clarification if it was alphabetize by city code or customer name because the manager was laughing so hard they couldnt answer me). Anyway it came with a nice little diagram of 3 carts lined up 1) A-J 2) K-Q and 3) R-Z (or something similar). Can someone answer just what this is supposed to accomplish? Do we not have better things to do than to put out memos to alphabetize the bags on the carts? No wonder we're in the shape we're in if this is the best policy and procedure that Tempe can come up with.

*Of course if someone can give me a really good reason and explanation as to what this would accomplish and how it would help US, then I'd be willing to apologize. (Not holding my breath though.) h34r:

Please don't forget that once all the bags have been alphabetized, they need to then be sorted by colors and then by patterns!!! LOL

 

[nostradamus]

Tribute to baggage handlers

 

[wings396]

Oh, great.

That's just going to make it that much harder to hire rampers in PHL. Now they're going to have to be drug-free, criminal record-free, AND know the alphabet!

Based on what they have done in the past, we figured that they had a basic idea of the alphabet. When sorting bags to a particular station, they used to go by the first letter of the city code...And that is where they stopped. Anything that started with the letter "A" came to ABE, and so on. We got bags destined for ALB,AVP,ABQ, and so on. They did at least give it a basic try anyway.. :blink:

 

[Prince of PAWOBs]

Alphabetizing the bags on a cart is the easiest way to reroute baggage after a flight has cancelled when using SHARES. SHARES seems to automatically "dump" the bag/pax list after a cancellation, so the lucky bagroom chump gets to work the PNR's one at a time.

Yeah. Great system. SABRE, otoh, let you see the cancelled passenger segements for bags after they were rebooked. No A,B,C's required. Just check the new routing and grab a bag.

Let's paint more pianos!

 

[tadjr]

SHARES seems to automatically "dump" the bag/pax list after a cancellation, so the lucky bagroom chump gets to work the PNR's one at a time.

Thats what the reroute message is for, right?
They've just started dumping all the bags on the claimbelt for the customers to claim and recheck at the counter. Last week (3 weather canx in a row) we had 7 carts of unclaimed bags at the end of the night. Hey, at least its helping with the car payments.