Aw Tables Resolution-agrees To Doh

[tahitigirl]

It will be interesting to see how US/East FA's will adjust to US/West's door procedures. Since good old Sherri is the head of all inflight bet that policy will stay. I just want to see the senior FA's at US/East talk to themselves while they disarm the A/C door.

Also what about the FAA cabin safety inspector. Will we keep US/West's or US/East's? If we keep US/West's won't the FA's at US/East be in for a big surprise...

Let the fun begin..

What do you mean "talk to themselves"?

 

[firstamendment]

It will be interesting to see how US/East FA's will adjust to US/West's door procedures. Since good old Sherri is the head of all inflight bet that policy will stay. I just want to see the senior FA's at US/East talk to themselves while they disarm the A/C door.

Also what about the FAA cabin safety inspector. Will we keep US/West's or US/East's? If we keep US/West's won't the FA's at US/East be in for a big surprise...

Let the fun begin..

What are you talking about? Sherry is history!!

What IS the US West door policy and why the hell should we care WHAT the procedure is? With all the crap we have been thru, you REALLy think any of us could give a good GD whose procedures we adopt? 😛h34r:

 

[TheNewLowFare]

I personally don't agree with that. Why should a flight attendant the did not voluntarily transfer or get displaced to a base that they cleary don't want to be in (because they would already be here) be able to STEAL the trips off of those who got sent and/or transfered???? We are to big to allow something like that.

Steal??? Oh puhleeze! LOL ...We can't even get rid of our trips in PHX because they are hard to get rid of ! Why not allow others to pick them up? I personally like the WN system. It allows alot of flexibility.

 

[Whatnow?]

It will be interesting to see how US/East FA's will adjust to US/West's door procedures. Since good old Sherri is the head of all inflight bet that policy will stay. I just want to see the senior FA's at US/East talk to themselves while they disarm the A/C door.

Also what about the FAA cabin safety inspector. Will we keep US/West's or US/East's? If we keep US/West's won't the FA's at US/East be in for a big surprise...

Let the fun begin..

What in the world could be soo different about arming/disarming a friggen door? 🙄 Big suprises don't phase the F/A's anymore.....there have been WAY too many of them over the past several years! B)

 

[AWAskyprincess]

We stay in the forward section of the AC ( first class area) to moniter the forward sec of the AC...I dont think this rule is going to go ....As for the door yes we do talk to ourselves Its not so bad ...I dont think that will change our slide blows have gone way down..If you blow a slide you might not have a job...the Old US AIRWAYS is GONE...I dont think they will keep any of there service standards around...( the airline was failing) why keep the ways of a sinking ship...at AWA we change our carts on long days..we cross seatbelts and clean out the seat back pockets..we fold blankets...and put away pillows..we restock our lavs on flights..we do not get crew meals...( pilot leftovers now and then ) REMEMBER Doug is in charge now..welcome to a low cost airline...really its not so bad once you get used to it ...

 

[tahitigirl]

We stay in the forward section of the AC ( first class area) to moniter the forward sec of the AC...I dont think this rule is going to go ....As for the door yes we do talk to ourselves Its not so bad ...I dont think that will change our slide blows have gone way down..If you blow a slide you might not have a job...the Old US AIRWAYS is GONE...I dont think they will keep any of there service standards around...( the airline was failing) why keep the ways of a sinking ship...at AWA we change our carts on long days..we cross seatbelts and clean out the seat back pockets..we fold blankets...and put away pillows..we restock our lavs on flights..we do not get crew meals...( pilot leftovers now and then ) REMEMBER Doug is in charge now..welcome to a low cost airline...really its not so bad once you get used to it ...

Not much different to what we do in the east. At the end of each service we stock our cart. We fold blankets and put away pillows (and yes I stick them between the seats, it saves space in the bins). Pick up trash and if it's sticking out of the seatback pocket grab that too. (BTW please be careful I once found a needle in the seatback!). Crossing seatbelts and putting armrest down is also something we do. No we don't get crew meals, but our guys up front usually ask if they can get us something to eat. We don't talk to ourselves, but we do cross check each other.

Maybe this merger is going to be easier than we all think. 🙂

 

[firstamendment]

We stay in the forward section of the AC ( first class area) to moniter the forward sec of the AC...I dont think this rule is going to go ....As for the door yes we do talk to ourselves Its not so bad ...I dont think that will change our slide blows have gone way down..If you blow a slide you might not have a job...the Old US AIRWAYS is GONE...I dont think they will keep any of there service standards around...( the airline was failing) why keep the ways of a sinking ship...at AWA we change our carts on long days..we cross seatbelts and clean out the seat back pockets..we fold blankets...and put away pillows..we restock our lavs on flights..we do not get crew meals...( pilot leftovers now and then ) REMEMBER Doug is in charge now..welcome to a low cost airline...really its not so bad once you get used to it ...

You're reply is very snotty and downright rude!! Brainstorm...we do all the same things you guys have been doing.

For whatever reason you have decided to state inflammatory remarks such as "the airline was failing" or "the old US AIRWAYS is gone."

I see your status here is that of a newbie. Apparently you are a bitter AWA f/a who doesn't seem to have embraced the new US Airways...which you are NOW a part of or you would not had put AWA in your screen name. Sorry, your true colors have been exposed and you have lost ALL credibility. Perhaps you should read my post, Paging Miss Polyanna. Nice to know US West has it's share of nasty employees. :down:

 

[DCAflyer]

You're reply is very snotty and downright rude!! Brainstorm...we do all the same things you guys have been doing.

For whatever reason you have decided to state inflammatory remarks such as "the airline was failing" or "the old US AIRWAYS is gone."

I see your status here is that of a newbie. Apparently you are a bitter AWA f/a who doesn't seem to have embraced the new US Airways...which you are NOW a part of or you would not had put AWA in your screen name. Sorry, your true colors have been exposed and you have lost ALL credibility. Perhaps you should read my post, Paging Miss Polyanna. Nice to know US West has it's share of nasty employees. :down:

Honey, that one exposed her true colors a long time ago. She obviously is one of the bitter ones who doesn't have much of a life and probably was one of the ones who led the drive to have Bill recalled because he told the AWA flght attendants like it is with respect to the merger. Somebody needs to cross a seatbelt right over her mouth!

 

[multitasker]

What are you talking about? Sherry is history!!


That would be incorrect firstamendment. Sherry S in the managing director of inflight services. Which means all the base managers report to her. She sets the policy and procedures.

As to the door. What we at US/West are required to do is when you arrive at the gate the 1st(we don't have lead FA's) positions themselves in the aisle with their back to the passengers. The 2nd FA moves to 1R and points to the arming/diarming lever and states out loud PREPARING TO DISARM. The 1st FA responds by statiing out loud, VERIFYED. Then the 2nd FA's disarms 1R. and states DISARMING. Then the 2nd FA moves to door 1L, looks thru the viewport to verify that the jetway is in motion. We cannot disarm 1L until the jetway is in motion. Then you repeat the above proccess. In the AFT the 3rd FA is to repeat the same process above OUT LOUD to themselves as they disarm 2R the 2L. This procedure is done on all A/C including the 73 and 75. So when you work 3rd on the Airbus/Boeing or the 1,2,4th FA's on the 75 you talk to yourself while you disarm the doors.

Since we started this procedure we have had 2 slide deployments. 1 FA receive a 1 month suspention and 1 FA who admited that they did not do the procedure was terminated.

 

[TheNewLowFare]

You're reply is very snotty and downright rude!! Brainstorm...we do all the same things you guys have been doing.

For whatever reason you have decided to state inflammatory remarks such as "the airline was failing" or "the old US AIRWAYS is gone."

I see your status here is that of a newbie. Apparently you are a bitter AWA f/a who doesn't seem to have embraced the new US Airways...which you are NOW a part of or you would not had put AWA in your screen name. Sorry, your true colors have been exposed and you have lost ALL credibility. Perhaps you should read my post, Paging Miss Polyanna. Nice to know US West has it's share of nasty employees. :down:

All airlines have their share of nice flight attendants and nasty ones. I'm sure we've all worked with one, but majority of flight attendants at US West are nice and down to earth. I have encountered quite a few professional US East F/As that have shared vans with us in Los Angeles, Vegas and Boston (I know that relocated location is dumpy, but we should still be grateful. lol) and yes, they were very nice to us.

I have to think positive on this merger and we have to be proactive. We all need each other and separately our carriers would not be viable. Southwest would be kicking our ass if we don't merge with each other, so we have to think positive on this one. Phoenix used to be our teritory and now Southwest has more flights there than us now and it is time to take back our turf ! 🙂

 

[firstamendment]

What are you talking about? Sherry is history!!
That would be incorrect firstamendment. Sherry S in the managing director of inflight services. Which means all the base managers report to her. She sets the policy and procedures.

As to the door. What we at US/West are required to do is when you arrive at the gate the 1st(we don't have lead FA's) positions themselves in the aisle with their back to the passengers. The 2nd FA moves to 1R and points to the arming/diarming lever and states out loud PREPARING TO DISARM. The 1st FA responds by statiing out loud, VERIFYED. Then the 2nd FA's disarms 1R. and states DISARMING. Then the 2nd FA moves to door 1L, looks thru the viewport to verify that the jetway is in motion. We cannot disarm 1L until the jetway is in motion. Then you repeat the above proccess. In the AFT the 3rd FA is to repeat the same process above OUT LOUD to themselves as they disarm 2R the 2L. This procedure is done on all A/C including the 73 and 75. So when you work 3rd on the Airbus/Boeing or the 1,2,4th FA's on the 75 you talk to yourself while you disarm the doors.

Since we started this procedure we have had 2 slide deployments. 1 FA receive a 1 month suspention and 1 FA who admited that they did not do the procedure was terminated.

Thats cool. Our inflight directors name is Sherry as well, hence the confusion. We hate our Sherry. I am for anything that will prevent slide deployment.

All airlines have their share of nice flight attendants and nasty ones. I'm sure we've all worked with one, but majority of flight attendants at US West are nice and down to earth. I have encountered quite a few professional US East F/As that have shared vans with us in Los Angeles, Vegas and Boston (I know that relocated location is dumpy, but we should still be grateful. lol) and yes, they were very nice to us.

I have to think positive on this merger and we have to be proactive. We all need each other and separately our carriers would not be viable. Southwest would be kicking our ass if we don't merge with each other, so we have to think positive on this one. Phoenix used to be our teritory and now Southwest has more flights there than us now and it is time to take back our turf ! 🙂

I'm all for that. Let's kick some Canyon Blue Butt!

 

[mdarules]

REMEMBER Doug is in charge now..welcome to a low cost airline...really its not so bad once you get used to it ...


HMMM, can you say BITTERLICIOUS - honey we aren't trailer trash and if that is how you wish to represent your fellow colleagues god bless you!! Don't forget that your airline now does transatlantic to Paris, Munich, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Dublin, Shannon, Glasgow, London, Venice, Rome as well as extensive carribean and canada and latin america! The getting rid of ENVOY name is diluted and ignorant at best - I would love to know who thought to call it "business class" that must have been a long thought out decision. There are a few things that marketing does - the most important draw a customer and paint a picture - that doesnt do it, and you are now part of the star alliance as well - you don't go through the cabin throwing peanuts on a transatlantic flight like a southwest tacky khaki - come on that is going to be the difference even though we are low cost we are going to be professional - we have all come from professional class airlines and we will not stoop to the level of acting like trailer trash or at least i won't I can reassure you of that!!! and if that is DOUGS intentions I feel sorry for the poor guy b/c number one you can have a professional image and still keep your costs low -

 

[firstamendment]

REMEMBER Doug is in charge now..welcome to a low cost airline...really its not so bad once you get used to it ...
HMMM, can you say BITTERLICIOUS - honey we aren't trailer trash and if that is how you wish to represent your fellow colleagues god bless you!! Don't forget that your airline now does transatlantic to Paris, Munich, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Dublin, Shannon, Glasgow, London, Venice, Rome as well as extensive carribean and canada and latin america! The getting rid of ENVOY name is diluted and ignorant at best - I would love to know who thought to call it "business class" that must have been a long thought out decision. There are a few things that marketing does - the most important draw a customer and paint a picture - that doesnt do it, and you are now part of the star alliance as well - you don't go through the cabin throwing peanuts on a transatlantic flight like a southwest tacky khaki - come on that is going to be the difference even though we are low cost we are going to be professional - we have all come from professional class airlines and we will not stoop to the level of acting like trailer trash or at least i won't I can reassure you of that!!! and if that is DOUGS intentions I feel sorry for the poor guy b/c number one you can have a professional image and still keep your costs low -

YOU GO GIRL!!!

 

[etops1]

sherry groff is gone. she has been replaced by ron cole. ron is the new director of inflight.

 

[USAguy97]

Great forum....thanks for the info.

LETS CREATE the new reserve system here. I'm 27yr (psa) and the reserve system has sucked for all our reserves forever. You guys have the knowledge and experience to make ours one that could be enjoyed by all. The flexibility to choose what base you could fly out of would fabulous. It would end the threat of people mass moving to transfer to PHX. West f/a's are young and vital (I'm 52) with that lust for travel they'd love to pick up int'l trips to vacation. I vote we create a fabulous reserve system and use our voting power to embrace our new sisters/brothers and protect there joy of flying. It would also help our east reserves with a much needed attitude lift. God knows we need it. Solidarity rules. Lets rock this place.
PS...the pilots are hoping for a "you too" with DOH

Well it would be great to get a new reserve system that what U East has. Unfort, with Carol A representing USEast at the table the reserves will once again get screwed by her. She doesn't care about the reserves as she has shown us many times. If it was up to Carol reserves wouldn't be able to pick up ETB trips. She felt that with a Reserve picking this time up that it would take trips away from her senior friends. As a reserve we can hope for a new reserve system along with a new reserve chair!