US1YFARE
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- Mar 31, 2004
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I thought this was on the ground...In the air too?
It's good for the blood flow...you wouldn't want us to develop any nasty clots or anything now would you?
I just worked with a former "EAST" F/A - Many topics
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It's good for the blood flow...you wouldn't want us to develop any nasty clots or anything now would you?
USCREW
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Not in first class, NO. I'd have to start throwing minis at those clots as fast as possible!
IMisstheAladdinTrays
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Well I wish a furloughed EASTIE ,that is now working out West, would fill us in on all the silly things the WESTIES are required to de.
N965VJ
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Someone forgot how to do things after one month?
Genuflection at 1L.
donttouchthebeauty
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- Jan 11, 2006
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Yeah, but from what i have heard it is a freak show out there... Who knows why they make you do that crap of talking to yourselves and other people but i for one will tell you that shiattt wont fly past phx or vegas - you must really be incomp. to have to put on a browdway play to push a lever, and the 767 - i mean come on --- Also this exit row crap about not going past the exit row will never go eaither - i would love to have a someone tell me not to go past the exit row - JOKE - -- This is all so stupid i really feel sick, maybe i need more sun.
USCREW
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Trust me as a westie we think some of our procedures are pretty stupid too. The problem out here is simple - it is called Inflight Mismanagement and Inflight Training. These two groups do anything to justify why they still have jobs. Half the time these new procedures are written by people with very little or no line experince. Then add to that mix, ghost riders who are management and selected f/f who also ghost ride and next thing you know if you have not followed all the rules you get called in and a letter is placed in your file. Not doing the overwing briefing, going past overwing, and not having 2 f/a in the front during pilot swap out will get you in major trouble. We always take the FAR's and make them 100 times more difficult than they have to be. Then we add even more stuff, like overwing, and it becomes a nightmare. I cannot wait for us to adopt some of the east's procedures. From what I have been hearing you don't re-invent the wheel every year. We do and having been doing it now for 23!!
USCREW
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Pardon me for saying this, but from the latest newsletter, it seems that the new west supervisors do not have a lot of inflight experience, and most do not have a college degree. I believe that both are requirements at east.
You mean to say, WAS a requirement? Isn't all hiring and such going through Tempe now? I know of a person in HR that goes to CLT/PHL all the time for hiring duties (interview, recruiting and such).
USCREW
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I hope that the standard will be set higher.
If you set the standard higher, guess what, you have to pay more and that is NOT the way the NEW USAirways does things.
USCREW
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Wait until the passengers see it. I witnessed it this week and thought it was so pathetic I almost laughed, but then just really felt sorry for the little girl who was doing it. And the Easties think they have junior people, wait until they see who is working on the west side of the operation.
Why would you care about a procedure that has reduced our slide deployments to ZERO from the FAs.
Its pathetic that you would laugh at a FA doing a SAFETY procedure.
Well, it was new to the West FAs too. A procedure that was built by NASA. And it reduced our slide deployments to zero.
It may look stupid, but it can save your job, so for the FAs that don't feel like they need to follow the procedure, better to look stupid than loose your job.
The procedure is full proof enough that, if done properly and completely you can't blow a slide or leave a door armed.
