Oh Delta...why oh why?

Autothrust Blue said:
On the Brasilia in LAX, we vacated the south side, and taxied into T8 one fine evening without talking to anyone but the ramp tower. Ground got ahold of us just as we were turning in - "Buzzsaw 5155, Los Angeles Ground, taxi to the gate, thanks, good day."

We figured it was better to do that, than stop in the face of a 767-300ER and wait for the (somewhat obvious) instruction. And they were too busy untangling a standoff between Air China, China Eastern, and American down at the other end of the airport.

In fact, the only time that I've heard ORD read someone a phone number was when an Airline Canada Lite/Express/Whatever They Are Now stopped between the inner and the outer...
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I've heard LAX yell at people for less. Quite frankly I wouldn't move out there until they tell you to. It's the game they like to play.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
In fact, the only time that I've heard ORD read someone a phone number was when an Airline Canada Lite/Express/Whatever They Are Now stopped between the inner and the outer...
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Silly Canadians...
I was yelled at the other night.. Forgot to select #2 mic, and told Ground we were " 1234 On the ground taxiing", instead of Ops.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
The fact that there is no ramp tower over there is a considerable source of butthurt, it would seem.
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I never witnessed this so called butt hurt. You guys fly to LGA yet on that thing? I'm sure your comrades will be just as big of fish out of water. New things are new things.
 
Seggy said:
Skywest in LGA or EWR would be hysterical.
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My biggest butthurt going into LGA as a UAX Acey is that ATC would assume we were going to the Delta gates instead of the C gates. So they'd give you some stupid long taxi instructions and then the freq would be clogged so you wouldn't get a chance to point out their error, even though you told them where you were going.
 
Screaming_Emu said:
My biggest butthurt going into LGA as a UAX Acey is that ATC would assume we were going to the Delta gates instead of the C gates. So they'd give you some stupid long taxi instructions and then the freq would be clogged so you wouldn't get a chance to point out their error, even though you told them where you were going.
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I've had the same going into DFW at night. After they land us on the west side, "You're going where??? Oh snap. That ACEY."
 
Richman said:
The two golden rules of taxiing at ORD:

1) Don't Stop
2) Don't hit anything

Everything else seems to be pretty negotiable.

Richman
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Bonus points for knowing which direction you taxi on alpha and bravo. Yeah I'm talking to that different animal who turned left out of their ramp on alpha right as we crossed over the top of the bridge. Fortunately it only took a half hour for ops to get a tug out to turn them around.
 
poser765 said:
Bonus points for knowing which direction you taxi on alpha and bravo. Yeah I'm talking to that different animal who turned left out of their ramp on alpha right as we crossed over the top of the bridge. Fortunately it only took a half hour for ops to get a tug out to turn them around.
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They had us go backwards on A a few times because of the construction.
 
Seggy said:
Skywest in LGA or EWR would be hysterical.
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Apparently, we take this airplane to LGA. I've not had the privilege yet, although if I ever do, I'll put an amount of "what's it to ya" in my voice upon arrival at the ZNY boundary and won't stop that until we're gone again.

In all seriousness, I'm sure we're no different from The Competition™.
 
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