A Day in the Life of Scheduling

[NoMoreKoolAid]

On the January 1 crew scheduling decides to under staff a lot of the international operation and send Bruxelles along with others out with a minimum crew. This was because they failed to plan as usual. I hear one of our flight attendants fell in a street and broke a leg on the overnight. This trip looks like a 4 day and the accident happened on day 2 of the 4 day. This should not have effected flight operations but as usual they gambled and lost. European operations should not go out short period. So it was looking like they get another flight attendant to Bruxelles or cxl the flight. Plenty of time to offline deadhead another flight attendant to Bruxelles but no, operations can't think out of the box or that fast on the feet and downsize incoming and outbound flights to a 757E making it barely legal to fly. This leaves passengers at the gate both directions with vouchers, hotels and busted connections. All this to avoid paying for 1 crew member's ticket on another airline that should not have even been necessary in the first place. Amazing Anyway I hope the flight attendant is OK and had a speedy recovery.

 

[US1YFARE]

OK, one more time...


They suck.

They are inept.

They put this airline in the craphole.

They don't care about employees.

They don't care about customers.

They don't have a clue.

 

[Travelpro72]

Oh but try and get out of a trip for 30/7 honey....they can calculate that Sh!T down to the nano second. Something as avoidable as this story just goes to show the stupidity. I don't care HOW much money is raked in this management is going to be the damn death of Usairways. Their ONLY talent is to screw and cut corners. They can't make ANY kind of educated decision. I'm surprised they didn't try and send a 737 over gander. Morons....PURE morons.

 

[Travelpro72]

Oh but try and get out of a trip for 30/7 honey....they can calculate that Sh!T down to the nano second. Something as avoidable as this story just goes to show the stupidity. I don't care HOW much money is raked in this management is going to be the damn death of Usairways. Their ONLY talent is to screw and cut corners. They can't make ANY kind of educated decision. I'm surprised they didn't try and send a 737 over gander. Morons....PURE morons.
I don't know why this is here twice. Oh well twice as nice for one low price.

 

[Twicebaked]

It wasn't a matter of cost. It was a matter of bodies.

They have to pay each flight attendant an extra $10 an hour for understaffing. Multiply that by 6 or 7 flight attendants that is $60 to $70 an hour as opposed to only $40ish or less for that ONE flight attendant.

I am not sticking up for them in any way shape or form...........but

It is not scheduling....it is our system and contractual language ( i.e sapping out of a holiday trip and the bid sheet only having to touch one end of the trip) that screwed it all up........as usual.

 

[US1YFARE]

Multiply that by 6 or 7 flight attendants that is $60 to $70 an hour as opposed to only $40ish or less for that ONE flight attendant.

This is EXACTLY the problem with Tempe...this is how they think. Aren't you talking like $1,000 or less. You are going to screw pax over for $1,000? It is so shortsighted.

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Where in the heck is Bruxells? Is that a city? Is this a joke? Hmmmm?

 

[beachboy]

Bean counters run this place so this is just funny to me. Add up the cost of all this "what forth and where they be at"? $$$$$$$ is what the calculator says. Like the old shuttle you protected the operation at all costs. If you have to cancel a half full MHT flight to pull someone to fly a Europe well so be it. Which is more potential for disaster and cost expense? No brainier. Then the unthinkable happens and they inconvenience the customers and choose the route with most expense. Well, none of us should be shocked. All par for the course.
LOL...Bruxells is the official French spelling of BRU. It is spelled in the U.S. Brussles. But I think all the same. I think the first spelling is more correct then the English version according to Google.

 

[flybynite]

On the January 1 crew scheduling decides to under staff a lot of the international operation and send Bruxelles along with others out with a minimum crew. This was because they failed to plan as usual. I hear one of our flight attendants fell in a street and broke a leg on the overnight. This trip looks like a 4 day and the accident happened on day 2 of the 4 day. This should not have effected flight operations but as usual they gambled and lost. European operations should not go out short period. So it was looking like they get another flight attendant to Bruxelles or cxl the flight. Plenty of time to offline deadhead another flight attendant to Bruxelles but no, operations can't think out of the box or that fast on the feet and downsize incoming and outbound flights to a 757E making it barely legal to fly. This leaves passengers at the gate both directions with vouchers, hotels and busted connections. All this to avoid paying for 1 crew member's ticket on another airline that should not have even been necessary in the first place. Amazing Anyway I hope the flight attendant is OK and had a speedy recovery.

Well, sweetie this whole tragedy could have been avoided if our airline had been staffing our aircraft at full levels like the "other airlines" instead of the minimum FAA requirments. All the other majors keep thier International Operations fully staffed.

We are so lame. I hope the f/a is ok too.

 

[Twicebaked]

This is EXACTLY the problem with Tempe...this is how they think. Aren't you talking like $1,000 or less. You are going to screw pax over for $1,000? It is so shortsighted.

You are missing the point.

They didn't have the bodies (flight attendants) to fill the spot!!!!!

They send the T/A flights out with FAA min crew rather than cancelling a domestic flight...NOW here is the problem.

There was NO wiggle room. At FAA min....if something happens to one of the flight attendants......you are screwed.

Unfortunately, they played Russian Rolet and shot themselves in the head.

Sometimes the flight attendant contract can be our own worst enemy... (again, sapping touching etc.) This causes much stress to us as well running a f'd up operation like this Christmas.

 

[NAPAUS]

Where in the heck is Bruxells? Is that a city? Is this a joke? Hmmmm?

Its Brussels, Belgium. It's the Belgian spelling for Brussels ~ ya know Europe!

 

[US1YFARE]

I love Brussel's Sprouts.

 

[beachboy]

Me too! Ones roasted on 400 for 35 min with salt and EVOO! Not the ones running this company. -_-

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Its Brussels, Belgium. It's the Belgian spelling for Brussels ~ ya know Europe!

Oh, I get it! I live in the Southwest so I always say the name of my country as Los Estados Unidos. Just to be PC so I don't upset Mexico. I see. Americans can't even use their own language now! When in Europe it may be Bruxelles. But I'm not in Europe. I'm in America. I say Brussels. When are we going to start speaking in Chinese? (I still can't bring myself to say US Airways. Or is USAirways? Or is it US Air? I really don't know. No one has ever said what the correct name of this company is. I really, really don't know. So I just don't say it to avoid embarrassment. Do we fly to Roma?

 

[beachboy]

Oh who cares? Rome Roma Brussles Bruxelles Tomato Tomahto. Please, debate the subject. And really to be culturally aware the Europe spelling is more correct. But whatever.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels