What's happening at DTW?

Is It any better today?

Already have a round trip canceled for this afternoon, so not even going to airport until tonight for the flight to the overnight.
 
I was bored and checked a lot of the outstations first flights back in to DTW this morning. Looked like CR9 will still have flights but anything on CR2 is cancelled. Not sure why or if it's simple anecdotal evidence but that seems to be the case.
 
We did two turns out of dtw over the last two days. They have us direct Gemini and speed our discretion right out of DCA. It was a ghost town!
 
Day 6 of a "4 day" didn't even try to leave the hotel yesterday.

Showed up to fly one leg back to Ohio. Aircraft has 3 inches of snow on it, batts are at bare min to try to start the APU. GPU plugged in and kicks off, tried again, GPU kicks off again APU doesn't even try to spin. Rampers say the jet bridge GPUs are frozen and the two carts nearby are also a no go. I call MX after a tirade of four letter words from them pointed at DTW ops (DGS) who didn't pick up the phone or return theyre calls. MX says they'll "get back to me."

Five minutes later, the board says CX for my flight. Call CrewSked, "huh it cancelled? Why are u in DTW?"

The meltdown is still hasn't stopped. I've never seen anything like it, but Southern jets will still offer us more flying because we're cheap.
 
Update: I just found out we have had flight attendants and HR people working the phones for crewsked at one point...
 
jynxyjoe said:
Synergies? DID YOU SAY SYNERGIES!

Genuflect when you say that bub. That's one of those made up management words. Synergy fixes everything, like perpetual motion machines- and they are both REAL!
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Synergies = redundancy in management speak. And redundancy = layoffs allowing for more work to be done by fewer people allowing for higher profit margins.
 
Yeah, not exactly sure what happened but it was full meltdown at B/C. I took a six hr delay to fly in during the storm Sunday but we got in on a Cat II and then had the rest of my day cancelled. Came back the next am and the intakes were full of ice. Took MX two hours to thaw and turn the engines. Boarded up and it took 2.5 hrs to push due to lack of rampers. I think B/C had 3 push crews total. Planes were stuck because the gates weren't plowed and the lectros couldnt get traction. Tuesday morning going back to DTW we pushed and had to do a gate return because of a ground stop for B/C. THe acars said "don't leave. THere are no gates, 70% of the fuelers and rampers no showed to work." Finally made it back to DTW Tuesday afternoon and the rest of my day got canned. Fun times. Like everyone else said, Mainline out of A was moving slow but fine. B/C was in meltdown mode.
 
dingo222 said:
Yeah, not exactly sure what happened but it was full meltdown at B/C. I took a six hr delay to fly in during the storm Sunday but we got in on a Cat II and then had the rest of my day cancelled. Came back the next am and the intakes were full of ice. Took MX two hours to thaw and turn the engines. Boarded up and it took 2.5 hrs to push due to lack of rampers. I think B/C had 3 push crews total. Planes were stuck because the gates weren't plowed and the lectros couldnt get traction. Tuesday morning going back to DTW we pushed and had to do a gate return because of a ground stop for B/C. THe acars said "don't leave. THere are no gates, 70% of the fuelers and rampers no showed to work." Finally made it back to DTW Tuesday afternoon and the rest of my day got canned. Fun times. Like everyone else said, Mainline out of A was moving slow but fine. B/C was in meltdown mode.
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Because... DGS
 
Yeah, buddy of mine from work got stranded in detroit. Somehow got to DC, then ATL, and slept a night on a bench in the hotlanta airport....or coldlanta? before getting back to work today.
 
Was in the DTW this week. Word was parts of the fuel hydrant system froze up and could only deliver a limited amount of fuel.

Monday night was -15F without the windchill. It was unspeakably cold (insert witty "cold as a crew schedulers heart" quip here) and the roads were skating rinks. I haven't been that cold since my MSP days.

Richman
 
Richman said:
Was in the DTW this week. Word was parts of the fuel hydrant system froze up and could only deliver a limited amount of fuel.

Monday night was -15F without the windchill. It was unspeakably cold (insert witty "cold as a crew schedulers heart" quip here) and the roads were skating rinks. I haven't been that cold since my MSP days.

Richman
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I think it would take more than -15F to get to that point :)
 
ctab5060X said:
I think it would take more than -15F to get to that point :)
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My guess is there's a fair amount of moisture in and around some of the machinery, not necessarily in the fuel itself. At -15F, lots of stuff stops working and just freezes up.

Richman
 
L-16B said:
I hope you at least get to fly for the place you work at.
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But then his uniform would have to be pressed again, plus there is too much new stuff on netflix for him to be forced to fly. He's to "pressed and focused"!

Insert sarcasm tag for those who read it wrong.
 
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