As a former Inflight Supervisor, I find this entire thread ridiculous. I have never heard of anyone ever being reprimanded for anything like this nor did the company ever give a directive to do so. And if you think an inexperienced new supervisor can just arbitrarily send out any letter they want to, you are wrong. These types of rumors just fuel the fire of an already low morale environment. I too would want to see the so called letter. Instead of bashing and complaining, why doesn't someone take the lead and find out if in fact it is true and if so, could our policy not be changed. I myself have been upgrading military personnel since I'm back flying with no fear of reprimanding.
Company Reprimanding FAs for upgrading Military
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As a former Inflight Supervisor, I find this entire thread ridiculous. I have never heard of anyone ever being reprimanded for anything like this nor did the company ever give a directive to do so. And if you think an inexperienced new supervisor can just arbitrarily send out any letter they want to, you are wrong. These types of rumors just fuel the fire of an already low morale environment. I too would want to see the so called letter. Instead of bashing and complaining, why doesn't someone take the lead and find out if in fact it is true and if so, could our policy not be changed. I myself have been upgrading military personnel since I'm back flying with no fear of reprimanding.
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Furloughd4now
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Had a Marine Sgt in full dress uniform in the back of the plane. Started chatting it up as he asked me about his very tight connection.
You see this young man was going to the funeral of his best buddy who was killed in action in Afghanistan. We (FAs) went up to First and asked for a volunteer to sit in the back to give this Marine a better shot at getting his connection (last for the night). The gentleman sitting in 2d gave his seat up, saying "its the least I can do".
If I get reprimanded for it then so be it and I'll do it again. Be thankful it wasn't your son/daughter killed in action at the ripe old age of 25!
Semper Fi
Proud Marine MoM!
ps. unless I see it in writing, I will not believe it!
You see this young man was going to the funeral of his best buddy who was killed in action in Afghanistan. We (FAs) went up to First and asked for a volunteer to sit in the back to give this Marine a better shot at getting his connection (last for the night). The gentleman sitting in 2d gave his seat up, saying "its the least I can do".
If I get reprimanded for it then so be it and I'll do it again. Be thankful it wasn't your son/daughter killed in action at the ripe old age of 25!
Semper Fi
Proud Marine MoM!
ps. unless I see it in writing, I will not believe it!
InternationalShannon
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this is a stupid thread, and it's just pissing everyone off. Now I vote that the moderators give me a hundred dollars cuz it's the right thing to do. Oh, and shut this down. There's no way it's true.
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Dwight Shrute? Is that you? How are things at the slaughterhouse?
I personally do not believe a word of this. It gets less believable every time someone tries to explain it.
This story is BS. F/As and agents have been doing this for years and have been both encouraged and complimented for doing so by supervisors and the training department. Unless this policy is exclusive to the West operation (which is supposed to have the same policies, both written and 'unwritten' as the bigger part of the airline), then this story is another case of smear the company for the sake of it.
US Airways is a crappy airline that certainly does a lot to destroy it's own image and goodwill, this however is not one of them. Now the company is in the awkward position of having to clarify a policy either way, instead of quietly allowing these acts of kindness as it had been doing. Obviously they can't make it a blanket policy since it technically is theft, but now they'll likely be forced to make a statement about it, which will ruin it for everyone.
Whoever started this rumor (which it is until we see proof) has done a great disservice to the servicemen and women we've been proudly carrying for years.
US Airways is a crappy airline that certainly does a lot to destroy it's own image and goodwill, this however is not one of them. Now the company is in the awkward position of having to clarify a policy either way, instead of quietly allowing these acts of kindness as it had been doing. Obviously they can't make it a blanket policy since it technically is theft, but now they'll likely be forced to make a statement about it, which will ruin it for everyone.
Whoever started this rumor (which it is until we see proof) has done a great disservice to the servicemen and women we've been proudly carrying for years.
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