A Day in the Life of Scheduling

[US1YFARE]

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

Mark Vetri's are the best

 

[N965VJ]

<SNIP> When are we going to start speaking in Chinese?

Do you mean cultural training for the China service?

Your lunch break in this year’s recurrent training will be a trip to the Fat Panda Buffet courtesy of Tempe.

 

[EMBFA]

I find it mildly annoying when people don't use the English translation of a city when speaking English. If I'm speaking French I don't say United States, I say les États-Unis.

 

[WCT]

"Bruxelles" is the French spelling of Brussels. Flemish spelling is Brussel. Which for the Westies is is located in Belgium, a small multilingual country just south of the Netherlands or Holland. All of these places are located in Europe which you may have heard of Mr Loblaw. No Cactii so doubtful you would know

Belgium is culturally divided into two distinct groups. Wallonia which speaks French and Flanders which speaks Dutch or Flemish which is a dialect of Dutch.

The duality coupled with the predominance of English means that most Belgians speak at least 3 usually 4 or 5 languages fluently. Also Bruxelles/Brussel/Brussels is the capital of the European Union.

I got back from Antwerp/Antwerpen on 12/31, day before the incident mentioned. I would also gently remind you Bob Loblaw that unless you're of American Indian, Asian or black your ancestors most likely came from Europe, so just how "American" are you?

BTW, the OP's point was well stated and further demonstrates the High cost of cheap.

Thanks for the clarification Piney. It is nice to see not everything revolves around the Sandcastle or what I call the "Dirt City"!

 

[nycbusdriver]

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.

Okay, if you're going to "LOL" over spelling, learn to spell first.

It's BRUXELLES in French, and BRUSSELS in English.

 

[WCT]

LOL, Don't forget "Snottsdale"!

It NEVER ceases to amaze me the number of people in this country who haven't been outside its borders. Then of course those are also the ones who can't understand why some countries/people hate "The American way of Life". If you get out into the world you find that language and certain customs aside, people are people. Most want what we want:

Their kids to do better than they do
A decent place to call home
A few bucks to go on holiday
A safe place to live free of crime
Good Transportation

In short, "They" as just like us in far more ways than not. They appreciate it if you learn to say Please, thank you, good morning and simple phrases in their native language.

Oddly enough this is on topic in a way because it points out that what is happening globally can and in this case is happening at US Airways. What you have in a way is a management team who in many instances have ignored the "Foreigners" from the East, preferring in this case "The America West" way. Therefore it should come as no surprise that those "Foreigners" feel second class culturally and US Management has in effect become the equivelent of the "Ugly American" caricature to them.

I totally agree. And don't forget PHOENIX actually stands for PHOENEY city of nothing but dirt and turd. I live here, so all you Phoenix bashers let me have it , I don't care! What a piece of crap place. Much too hot to care, and now to cool to want to care?!! HA! HA, hee, hee!

 

[beachboy]

Okay, if you're going to "LOL" over spelling, learn to spell first.

It's BRUXELLES in French, and BRUSSELS in English.

My French sucks and never have been spelling bee champ. How will I ever sleep at night? :blink: I'm always looking to better myself so maybe I will get Rosetta Stone for my birthday

 

[sharktooth]

Oddly enough this is on topic in a way because it points out that what is happening globally can and in this case is happening at US Airways. What you have in a way is a management team who in many instances have ignored the "Foreigners" from the East, preferring in this case "The America West" way. Therefore it should come as no surprise that those "Foreigners" feel second class culturally and US Management has in effect become the equivelent of the "Ugly American" caricature to them.

Nice job of connecting the dots.

 

[AstroLounge]

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?

I knew it wouldn't take long for someone from The West to sign on. AMAZING! There is a W-H-O-L-E Wide world OUT THERE outside of the desert. And better yet, THEY DON"T EAT GD Calzones either! And as far as being confused on THE Name of the actual airline.......it's USAirways and been so since 1997. Hasn't been USAir, never was U.S.Air or U.S.Airways or any of the other F'd up versions I have seen in the media over the years. The corporate name of America West has been placed into the archives- UNFORTUNATELY the Mantra of Cheap didn't follow it. And BTW..........YOU may want to look at a map in the future, most global maps spell the classy, sophisticated and cultural city of Bruxelles as such. (But then again, I highly doubt we will be seeing you over there FOR OBVIOUS REASONS. Touche') Stick to Yuma........it's something you can identify with.

 

[Bob Loblaw]

.it's USAirways and been so since 1997. Hasn't been USAir, never was U.S.Air or U.S.Airways or any of the other F'd up versions I have seen in the media over the years.

All of the stuff I have from the company says US Airways.

Don't agree with you on the Brussels thing. And, yes, I have been there and all over Europe as well. Never been to Yuma though! I'll give you that when you are over there and using their language you can spell it Bruxelles but when here and using English I prefer Brussels unless you really are one of those Snottsdale snobs!

 

[beachboy]

AAAAAAAAAAAND CURTAIN on this rendition of "How is it Spelled". If your that concerned you have been eating to much Alphabet Soup. PS, look what mine spelled. It must be a message. How about discussing the original point of the post.
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[FlightChic]

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.

I was looking at the pairing this morning and it showed them going over on a 767 with 5 f/as and returning to PHL with 4 f/as on a 757 Etops. That is crazy! 4 flight attendants for a transatlantic flight! Where did the 757 come from? Did it carry a plane full of pax when it went to BRU? Did they borrow it from another city where we fly? They would still need an extra f/a for the 767. I don't understand what they did. I don't get why they just didn't dh another f/a over there. It doesn't make any sense. They had enough time and it is the logical thing to do. It sounds like the easiest solution for everyone. Even if scheduling was short on people, I'm sure they could have found someone to dh over there and work the flt back. I hope the injured f/a is ok. I hope the other f/as return unscathed. I also wish scheds would get a freakin' clue.

 

[NoMoreKoolAid]

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.

Exactly! Thanks, US1YFARE.
So now the Company left all those pax and lost the revenue,The flt was oversold to begin with...Hummm Great Job Tempe!
SMALL THINKING AT IT'S BEST!

 

[beachboy]

I see what they did and it seems like they were trying to go around their butt to get to their elbow. It was a four day trip with a 767 over. Then the 767 left BRU on Jan 2 (and God lets just use the city code I can't watch another spelling debate). So there was no aircraft in BRU. The night of Jan 3 they decide to solve the problem, downsize the 767 to a 757 making it legal to work back with the min crew in BRU. Thus, solving the problem but leaving passengers behind and seems much more expensive than just deadheading a crew member over to work back.

 

[NoMoreKoolAid]

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.

you know its a funny thing, all of us can come up with the most logical choices...but these Tempe puppets just keep on drinking the koolaid