Hiya WR 3-6, no nothing grandiose, just a big user of DCA services talking to DCA managers at a working level about concerns they (AA) may have had re operating into the field. Normal business practice really.
If someone at AA had said “hey I don’t like this side-step procedure at DCA, I think it’s dangerous and we have safety reports to back it up, let’s tell the pilots not to do the side-step until further notice”……how would that have been received by their colleagues and DCA? Would DCA execs have pushed back on AA and threatened delays? If AA had implemented a policy like that ( easy for me to say with hindsight) what effect would that have had on the operating crews?
Would it have been like the Lufthansa who received no end of grief over the airways while trying to adhere to company policy?
If a CP had put their foot down and implemented policy like that would they be thought of as troublesome within their own Airline?
On that note….. did any Airline have policy refusing the side-step in certain conditions? ie at night?
I’m enjoying the conversation and appreciating the thought that people are putting into their contributions so thank you.
Framer