Pinnacle to the paint shop?

kellwolf said:
That sounds like it makes too much sense. That would be like flying the MX crew in on a terminating flight to JAN to fix a broken airplane down there, then fly them back on the originator in the morning. Nah, let's not do that. We'll have them drive down in the middle of the night. Naturally, company took the second option.
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We wouldn't want Pinnacle to go making sense now would we? :D

That would be crazy talk! :crazy:
 
Here is the first of many...

kellwolf, you didn't happen to go pick it up did you?

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Looks good.... But am curious on 3 parts.

1. How is the quality... will the paint stay on the plane for long?

2. Is the company asking for a discount for our planes that are already 75% striped of the bowling shoe paintjob? hehe

3. Is there an order on which birds go when...?

Of course I have asked these questions to someone who SHOULD know at least the overall plan behind the process and you could have sworn I was speaking another language.
 
higney85 said:
Looks good.... But am curious on 3 parts.

1. How is the quality... will the paint stay on the plane for long?

2. Is the company asking for a discount for our planes that are already 75% striped of the bowling shoe paintjob? hehe

3. Is there an order on which birds go when...?

Of course I have asked these questions to someone who SHOULD know at least the overall plan behind the process and you could have sworn I was speaking another language.
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1. Have you seen the Northwest Airbus in Delta colors that is already peeling paint? That should answer your question about quality...

2. If we fly them faster and peel more paint enroute to GLH, do we get bigger discounts?

3. See my post above... Pinnacle do things in some type of order?? A certain portion of the world must be frozen for that to happen!
 
We were running a PaintShop Shuttle between DAY and GLH for a while. I got stuck with a bunch of them. The way it worked for us was some poor sucker would bring the first one down after it came out of service for the night in DAY and then take a 3 hour cab ride to MEM (we can't DH on another airline and NW was the only service out of there) and then double deadhead MEM-CLT-DAY. The next guy would take an airplane down when the first one was done and bring back the first one. Normally it would end up being a ferry flight because the plane was out of it's 3 day check and what not. We had a mechanic on contract down there to fill out the ferry permit for us.

Some things of note:

The ramp in front of the hanger has random stuff sticking up all over it and very few (if any) taxi lines. I was only there at night and it was always an adventure.

The paint shop doesn't always pull all of the tape off. TRIPLE CHECK on your walk around that everything (ie static and pitot ports) are clear.

The paint jobs are slightly bad. A lot of the winglets were pealing within a week.

Also, if your plane has been sitting out in the sun for a week DON'T LET YOUR FO OPEN UP THE LAV to us it before heading home. You WILL be sorry. Just go on the ramp or in the nice airplane you just brought in.
 
BobDDuck said:
Some things of note:

The ramp in front of the hanger has random stuff sticking up all over it and very few (if any) taxi lines. I was only there at night and it was always an adventure.

The paint shop doesn't always pull all of the tape off. TRIPLE CHECK on your walk around that everything (ie static and pitot ports) are clear.

The paint jobs are slightly bad. A lot of the winglets were pealing within a week.
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Sounds just like Greenville!
 
We've been using a company down in BNA. Very nice paint jobs and they've been holding up pretty well. Oh man I remember when I was at MAG, we sent the Freedom Dash-8's to Roswell NM. I guess they were using a bunch of illegals to paint a/c. We jumseated on one flying down from YYZ and as we taxied up there were a bunch of green buses and trucks. The INS decided to raid the place as we were landing! Doh!:panic: They did a crappy job on the ones they had alread competed. They started peeling as soon as they got to JFK. :rolleyes:
 
Saw it in MEM the other day (and no, I didn't fly it back, more on that later). Looks good for now, but it's already got a nice, long brown streak behind the APU exhaust. At least the fixed the APU, though....


As for not flying it back....I've been too busy getting bent over. JMed last week, had a day off, then they tried calling to JM me AGAIN in the same week during the same string of days off. As of right now, I'm ALREADY over guarantee. And not by a little. I'm sitting at 83 hours of credit. They tried to give me a two day today, and I said "No, I'll just stick with the highspeed tonight." When they said I couldn't refuse it I reminded them "Yeah, but you also can't schedule me more than 30/7. What you're trying to give me would put me at 34/7." So, I've still got my ICT high speed tonight, then four more RSV days left in the month. I predict 90 hours of credit this month. But, hey. We're overstaffed on CAs, right?
 
kellwolf said:
Saw it in MEM the other day (and no, I didn't fly it back, more on that later). Looks good for now, but it's already got a nice, long brown streak behind the APU exhaust. At least the fixed the APU, though....
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Wonder how long it will be before the paint starts to peel...


kellwolf said:
....I've been too busy getting bent over.
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You've been bent over so much lately, it is a wonder you can even stand up. :D
 
ctab5060X said:
You've been bent over so much lately, it is a wonder you can even stand up. :D
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Some mornings, it takes an extra effort. :)

All things being equal, it's not the hours, it's how they're being assigned. I don't mind flying 90 hours a month, in fact, keep it coming. There are plenty of guys out there at other airlines not flying at all, so I'm happy for the hours. It's the emotional roller coaster of how scheduling gives it to me in the form of 3-4 scheduling changes a day mixed with a heaping of "We know you were scheduled to be off at 11 am, but we've got four more legs for you now."
 
RSV from 1800-1855 and off tomorrow. They won't call me, right? Wrong. 1802, the phone rings for a MX flight. They said to call back. If they don't use the RRLs (and they've got two of 'em), they'll take me off and use one of them.
 
kellwolf said:
RSV from 1800-1855 and off tomorrow. They won't call me, right? Wrong. 1802, the phone rings for a MX flight. They said to call back. If they don't use the RRLs (and they've got two of 'em), they'll take me off and use one of them.
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:banghead::banghead:


I know a RRL FO got used tonight...
 
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