Regionals vs. Majors

tlove482 said:
Everyone complains about the regionals. Take away the difference in pay and then compare them. What would the major differences be?
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Contract.

Pay rates are like epic breast implants.

Breast implants on someone like Katy Perry are one thing, implants on someone like Steve Buscemi is something else entirely different.

It's the whole contractual package you've got to consider.
 
Derg said:
Contract.

Pay rates are like epic breast implants.

Breast implants on someone like Katy Perry are one thing, implants on someone like Steve Buscemi is something else entirely different.

It's the whole contractual package you've got to consider.
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I had to read that three times before I understood your point.
 
Considerably different operationally.

Today we couldn't get catering to visit us in MSP. We tried everything, calling on ops, having the gate agent call his people, etc. but we ended up being about 35 mins late because of it. In the end we're an outsourced company calling another outsourced company asking them to send another outsourced company over to us...

Even when we fill out forms and what not that go to our management, there's very rarely any change on this stuff. I'm pretty sure much of it gets lost in the shuffle between companies.
 
Derg said:
Catering in MSP has killed my monthly D-0 numbers because I'm simply not going to launch a three hour flight without proper catering and there's something funky in the water there when it comes to catering and cleaning showing up on time.
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Today it was "Oh, you guys weren't on our list."

Was a short flight to MDW, but we didn't even have water. That's pretty much a bare minimum to go anywhere, especially with first class passengers on board.

That's also why I very much prefer the performance metric that we're compensated by Delta vs. the United one. Delta's on time bonuses for our company are based off A-14. If you think you can get stuff done within 14 mins, or maybe you can make up a little time somewhere it gives you the opportunity to do the right thing. With United absolutely everything was D-0, even if you showed up 20 mins early. And you'd see the difference in everyone's motivation too. Ramp crew sees you're not going to make D-0, he walks off to work on the airplane next door.
 
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Derg said:
Contract.

Pay rates are like epic breast implants.

Breast implants on someone like Katy Perry are one thing, implants on someone like Steve Buscemi is something else entirely different.

It's the whole contractual package you've got to consider.
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Wait, Doug, are you saying Katy Perry has fake boobs? That's not right. That can't be right, can it?
 
PeanuckleCRJ said:
Tee hee. @Derg said breasts.
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B767 said:
True dat! APA doesn't see it that way though...
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I was told by a USAir guy that if a trip is blocked at 2 hrs, and if they fly 1 hr, 50 minutes, they only get paid for 1 hr, 50 min, is that true?
 
Derg said:
I was told by a USAir guy that if a trip is blocked at 2 hrs, and if they fly 1 hr, 50 minutes, they only get paid for 1 hr, 50 min, is that true?
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And, to go a little more in depth, based on what I was told. You have a trip where day 1 has 2 flights. Both blocked at 4 hours. You over block the first flight at 4:10. You under block the second flight at 3:40. Most contracts would pay you 8:10 (the overblock plus the original block). And if most airlines didn't do that, then they would at least pay 8:00 (the original scheduled block). AA/US would pay 7:50 though. The over block doesn't "count" if you under block the other flights. I wouldn't know best though. @skyw82 @L-16B @wheelsup?
 
As of right now we still get paid what the leg was worth and if we go over we get over fly pay per leg. This is going to change I think since aa does it the other way.
 
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