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56 AM FA Mikey wrote: I have seen Jane Allen's reply. She points out, she like all senior execs and union officers, fly positive space. There is no way she would be bumping a paying passenger at the gate. Also noted that her entire family is 3 not 4. She checked about the Orchid drop. AA never did, sales, marketing etc. She even went so far as to see if the ad agency may have for a commercial or something else. The answer was No. Just wasn't true. The cappuccino test was just that a test and a bust. For parking AA doesn't pay a daily rate for the close up parking. Its charged at the same rate as the employee lot. They are allocated a set number up front in the contract. I can't believe this girl remembered the S 80 automated PA test. But she is really digging to go back to the late 80's to find something. Jane Allen pointed out is was a test and bust as well. Crews and customers didn't and didn't work well. The other points about the terminals JFK and MIA, They say they are more expensive to try to stop, than just continuing. No escape clause's in the contracts. That goes for the two arena's as well. Lost time and grooming? Hello, seen some of our people. The worst part about it, it is because, due to a few trouble makers. ----------------[/blockquote]
Positive space for any employee, should be only for business travel. The top folks make enough to buy themselves tickets when they travel for pleasure, for the stingy there is id90, and having them buy tickets, makes them rub shoulders with the hoipoloi, aka customers.
Ditto for prefered reserved parking, to paraphrase "Up the Organization by R Townsend: if you have to cross the parking lot you meet interesting people, and if you don't have designated aprking no one can tell if you are there or goofing off." They might also understand the first impression customers, vendors and employees get every day they come into business business.
Would D. Carty have made a fuss about the new security regulations if he were allowed to just by-pass them? Maybe that is the problem with the TSA etc, are the folks in Washington, I mean Senators and Congressmen, etc. subject to the rules they have imposed on the public? Anyone at the D.C. airports know?
So called bad business decisions are in the eye of the beholder. Cafe makers, the pre-canned announcement system on MD80, and so forth, if you don't try it you'll never know if it works. I wish they had kept the inflight phones as origionally set up, handsets in front and back of the cabin, after all we went from no phone booth in the sky to many and now back to none; cell phones are illegal in-flight, 9/11 usage not withstanding.
Aircraft purchases, I don't want to touch that subject, you can never please all of the people all of the time, but the folks in Dallas are not even pleasing some of the people ever.
If the terminal plant in STL is as worn out as it looks, then 14 millinon is not even a start, and fixing jetbridges makes for commonality system wide.
Billions for terminals, I can recall when the luxury touch was the ramp agent with the umbrella stand, so you'd get to the terminal dry. With today's digital display technology do all the airlines really need dedicated gates and terminals?
What the industry needs is a friendlier atmosphere again, check non-passengers through security and then let them roam the gate area as in pre 9/11, a ticket and boarding pass are a small prize for terrorists anyway. Not being able to see relatives and friends off sucks, same for arrivals. JFK's international arrivals terminal with the visitor's gallery upstairs is a good compromise between security and letting people watch for arrivals.
56 AM FA Mikey wrote: I have seen Jane Allen's reply. She points out, she like all senior execs and union officers, fly positive space. There is no way she would be bumping a paying passenger at the gate. Also noted that her entire family is 3 not 4. She checked about the Orchid drop. AA never did, sales, marketing etc. She even went so far as to see if the ad agency may have for a commercial or something else. The answer was No. Just wasn't true. The cappuccino test was just that a test and a bust. For parking AA doesn't pay a daily rate for the close up parking. Its charged at the same rate as the employee lot. They are allocated a set number up front in the contract. I can't believe this girl remembered the S 80 automated PA test. But she is really digging to go back to the late 80's to find something. Jane Allen pointed out is was a test and bust as well. Crews and customers didn't and didn't work well. The other points about the terminals JFK and MIA, They say they are more expensive to try to stop, than just continuing. No escape clause's in the contracts. That goes for the two arena's as well. Lost time and grooming? Hello, seen some of our people. The worst part about it, it is because, due to a few trouble makers. ----------------[/blockquote]Positive space for any employee, should be only for business travel. The top folks make enough to buy themselves tickets when they travel for pleasure, for the stingy there is id90, and having them buy tickets, makes them rub shoulders with the hoipoloi, aka customers.
Ditto for prefered reserved parking, to paraphrase "Up the Organization by R Townsend: if you have to cross the parking lot you meet interesting people, and if you don't have designated aprking no one can tell if you are there or goofing off." They might also understand the first impression customers, vendors and employees get every day they come into business business.
Would D. Carty have made a fuss about the new security regulations if he were allowed to just by-pass them? Maybe that is the problem with the TSA etc, are the folks in Washington, I mean Senators and Congressmen, etc. subject to the rules they have imposed on the public? Anyone at the D.C. airports know?
So called bad business decisions are in the eye of the beholder. Cafe makers, the pre-canned announcement system on MD80, and so forth, if you don't try it you'll never know if it works. I wish they had kept the inflight phones as origionally set up, handsets in front and back of the cabin, after all we went from no phone booth in the sky to many and now back to none; cell phones are illegal in-flight, 9/11 usage not withstanding.
Aircraft purchases, I don't want to touch that subject, you can never please all of the people all of the time, but the folks in Dallas are not even pleasing some of the people ever.
If the terminal plant in STL is as worn out as it looks, then 14 millinon is not even a start, and fixing jetbridges makes for commonality system wide.
Billions for terminals, I can recall when the luxury touch was the ramp agent with the umbrella stand, so you'd get to the terminal dry. With today's digital display technology do all the airlines really need dedicated gates and terminals?
What the industry needs is a friendlier atmosphere again, check non-passengers through security and then let them roam the gate area as in pre 9/11, a ticket and boarding pass are a small prize for terrorists anyway. Not being able to see relatives and friends off sucks, same for arrivals. JFK's international arrivals terminal with the visitor's gallery upstairs is a good compromise between security and letting people watch for arrivals.
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