No Connnecting Flight Info Onboard

[jimntx]

AA is in the minority. I'm also wondering how you do this given the cockpit door isn't supposed to be opened within 30 min of landing.

Simple. There are ventilations slits in the door. They slip the paper through one of those or under the door. Sorry to disappoint you if you were hoping to catch us in a security breach.

BTW, to the person who thinks it is boring to listen to, the passengers seem to appreciate the up-to-date info as the connecting gate printed on their boarding passes almost always changes before they get to DFW or ORD. In fact, we get flack from the passengers on those occasions where the ACARS link is down or the printer on the ACARS unit is not working.

 

[mrman]

Simple. There are ventilations slits in the door. They slip the paper through one of those or under the door. Sorry to disappoint you if you were hoping to catch us in a security breach.

BTW, to the person who thinks it is boring to listen to, the passengers seem to appreciate the up-to-date info as the connecting gate printed on their boarding passes almost always changes before they get to DFW or ORD. In fact, we get flack from the passengers on those occasions where the ACARS link is down or the printer on the ACARS unit is not working.

It is very timely on AA. They don't read all the connections possible, just the connections for the passengers on board. It is also helpful if you flight is late and you don't hear your connection you know your conection has left without you. As someone who has flown nearly 3MM with AA I find this quite nice

 

[jimntx]

It is very timely on AA. They don't read all the connections possible, just the connections for the passengers on board. It is also helpful if you flight is late and you don't hear your connection you know your conection has left without you. As someone who has flown nearly 3MM with AA I find this quite nice

Actually, you just reminded me of something. We only get and read out the connections for passengers who will be connecting within about 90 minutes. If it is longer they have to ask the agent meeting the flight. Even the agent warns them that the gate may change--particularly at DFW.

 

[EMBFA]

Ours only prints the connections for the customers on the plane, not all of them- good lord.

We no longer have an agent meeting the flight because our company doesn't believe in, possibly hates customer service.

 

[YVINTERN]

Not lately EMBFA...

 

[EMBFA]

Did I miss something? I haven't worked in a few days, have they become customer-driven in the past few days?

 

[YVINTERN]

Nah I was saying since the cutover...nothing's been perfect...nor shall we expect perfection to be attained at this sorry operation Tempe is running.

 

[john john]

Some agents resort to makeing their own by pulling flightflo, first class passengers and the connection list. A passenger needing special assistances WCHR WCHC WCHS MAAS ELE CART BLND etc. each category has to be pull up separate that is why agents have to manually fill out paper work 1970 style. All of this because SHARES is not capable of edits codes

 

[ual777fan]

Actually, you just reminded me of something. We only get and read out the connections for passengers who will be connecting within about 90 minutes. If it is longer they have to ask the agent meeting the flight. Even the agent warns them that the gate may change--particularly at DFW.

You aren't kidding about that! As a side note does DFW-AUS ever run on time or am I just unlucky?