crazyjeep
Well-Known Member
Spent the first half of my day working the ramp(DTW) as I normally do. 12:30 till about 4ish, even got to see another member. Needed me over in Control so I was inside. I knew it was too good to be true. Get out of the Control at 10:30(if you thought it was a trainee on the comms getting your gate assignments, well you were right). My coworkers in the lav had all left me, so I was stuck until last flight. No biggie, it was only an hour or so longer.
Low and behold, State College comes back(1/4 mi vis) and is cancelled, another goes, but then comes back with maintenance issues, and then that is swapped for a good plane. Saved some luggage with that one, another ramper was taking his anger out on the passengers checked bags(Montreal). By then its 12:30a. Everyone is itching to get out, its snowing, etc. We were supposed to have 17 some odd late night, we had 6. apparently 11 walked off. Hartford is delayed because of maintenance from earlier in the day, we are sitting around waiting for it to get canceled. They pushed it back to 2:30am. At 2:25, they give it the go ahead to go, but guess what, its an air-start! So its snowing, Ive already been at work 14 hours, and now got an air-start to do. We are down to 4 of us on the ramp, fortunately it consists of those type of rampers who actually have some sort of professionalism. We get the air-start going, but they start the wrong engine(thanks, lol). Finally they are pushed out around 3, but we have to wait for it to get out of range. 40 minutes later we get told its out of range(it had to deice). We scramble for the door, but the bus shutdown hours ago. I volunteer to ferry folks to the lot, I dont get to my car till 4:15am, roads slippery, icy, just crap. Head hits the pillow at 5am.
And finally up at 9 today for the family Christmas that's been delayed because Ive worked the past two days. Merry Christmas! Have a safe new year.
Low and behold, State College comes back(1/4 mi vis) and is cancelled, another goes, but then comes back with maintenance issues, and then that is swapped for a good plane. Saved some luggage with that one, another ramper was taking his anger out on the passengers checked bags(Montreal). By then its 12:30a. Everyone is itching to get out, its snowing, etc. We were supposed to have 17 some odd late night, we had 6. apparently 11 walked off. Hartford is delayed because of maintenance from earlier in the day, we are sitting around waiting for it to get canceled. They pushed it back to 2:30am. At 2:25, they give it the go ahead to go, but guess what, its an air-start! So its snowing, Ive already been at work 14 hours, and now got an air-start to do. We are down to 4 of us on the ramp, fortunately it consists of those type of rampers who actually have some sort of professionalism. We get the air-start going, but they start the wrong engine(thanks, lol). Finally they are pushed out around 3, but we have to wait for it to get out of range. 40 minutes later we get told its out of range(it had to deice). We scramble for the door, but the bus shutdown hours ago. I volunteer to ferry folks to the lot, I dont get to my car till 4:15am, roads slippery, icy, just crap. Head hits the pillow at 5am.
And finally up at 9 today for the family Christmas that's been delayed because Ive worked the past two days. Merry Christmas! Have a safe new year.
Good work! :beer:
