Comrades
- Thread starter ChasenSFO
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num1bearsfan
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You just might like ramp better. I know I do! I would take the elements of the outdoors 365 days a year over the enclosed and crowded walls of a terminal building.
Pansy. I bet you'll never strap yourself into a deice bucket or shovel snow out of engine intakes with your hands out there.
Ramp is way fun though. You'll probably like it a lot better.
ChasenSFO
hen teaser
Actually, I might get more pay. Since very few people actually know how to do the job, they're thinking about creating ramp leads at SFO and paying them more to give them the authority to force lazy people to work without all the BS supervisors have to deal with. I'm told I'm going straight to ramp lead when I start if it becomes a position.
I'm really looking forward to not dealing with passengers. Especially with my potty mouth. You can spray a pile of crap with Fabreez, but after a while, you'll start to smell the crap. Its been "a while". I just wish you could dish back whats given to you. 99% of people treat me nice, or they're not mad at me, they're mad at the situation, and I love to help these people out politely and do what I can for them with a smile. Its that 1% of people who are out of line and start making personal threats and insults that I want to grab by the collar and smash their heads into the Kiosk until I get tired of it.
n57flyguy
Well-Known Member
Are you familiar with the term cockroaches? You will be very quickly once you are a lead on an airline ramp. Keep in mind "lead." Take leadership relatively seriously because it will help you further on. Learn to influence, make decisions, and handle pressure. Use it as a starting point to see what works and what doesn't to get people to do what needs to be done and what you want done. Remember YOU will be responsible for others actions below you.
Your bitching is almost line guy par!
ASpilot2be
Qbicle seat warmer
Welcome!
ozziecat35
4 out of 5 great lakes prefer Michigan.
Welcome to the club!! There are days in August here in PHX I wonder why I still work here, but somehow I keep coming back for more...it gets into your blood. Then you have nights like last night for me....Get called to cover an upload, load the thing (25 aft/70 fwd) goes mech 5 minutes before push for a dimmer light in the cockpit. Babysit it for 45 minutes...cancels, now we unload it....Then we learn we're following it to a good 737, and we get to re-upload it....it was deh suck.
num1bearsfan
Well-Known Member
That scenario is all too familiar. There's nothing worse than when they LET you load the whole damn flight and tell you after the fact that there's a mechanical..
Also,.. 737s in PHX loading forward heavy.... Hmm,.. Do you work for Southwest?
dark_reaper
Airport Bum!
I hate those freaken aircraft swaps. If the flight is ed up, cancel it and dont the rest of the pax and screw everything up.
Hah, we had one that PSA didn't even bother to tell us about. We were outside waiting for our -700 terminator and a -200 rolls around the corner. The flight in the morning was booked to 70. Things like that make me glad I'm not a gate agent.
dark_reaper
Airport Bum!
Dude, that's messed up. I don't thing I have seen anything here like that. Then again, I dont work upstairs.
ozziecat35
4 out of 5 great lakes prefer Michigan.
ChasenSFO
hen teaser
Oh yeah? That's NOTHING! We had a CRJ-700 cancel going to RNO (booked to 70/66), and we made the flight a Brasilia(30 seats but weight restricted to 27). We took the 27 people with the most miles with our company and put them on the Brasilia. We told the other 43 people to piss off and drive. Funny story.
Flight cancels several gates down. Brasilia pulls into my gate. We tell all 70 people to go get rebooked. UA sends a discreet text message to our lucky 27 pax and tells them to come to my gate ASAP. I'm told to only announce the flight numbers and not where the plane is going. It was pretty hilarious actually, watching people bump into the massive line of angry stranded pax(they all had to drive)as they sprint over after getting a text, then apologize for bumping into the mob, then board my flight and go to Reno. The best part? For whatever reason, even though 65 people(the return was booked to 65) must have been stranded in RNO trying to get back to the hub, it came back EMPTY! The crew just turned around and left before RNO realized "Oh wait...its going back to the hub". They figured it was going to ferry somewhere. Good times.
That's one of the only things I'll miss about being upstairs, but it was a once in a lifetime thing I'm sure.
Screaming_Emu
Well-Known Member
I hated that commuting out of LIT. Go to sleep with 20 seats open. Wake up and it's full because they downgraded it.
num1bearsfan
Well-Known Member
Low Cost Carrier? What do you mean..?
LCC is the stock market code for a certain airline with an American flag on the tail. Think Captain Sully.
ChasenSFO
hen teaser
United Express luckily will almost never do that, only when planes break down, but I've noticed DL does it a lot. 20 open seats on a 70 seater? 50 seater! 6 open seats and empty first class on a 76 seater? 70 seater! Part of the reason I'm sure DL is so full all the time.
What United does do a lot though, which you will probably notice soon Joe being UAX, is A319/320 subs. Sometimes it's nice because your flight was oversold by a few people, but now its a 320 and you'll get on. But most of the time your 320 had 30 open seats, now its a slightly oversold 319.