Originally Posted by
marlowe
Ok Tristar i do feel sorry for any job losses in ground handling but the EDI ground handling is awful !! somebody on this forum said that BACON accounts for over 50% of the work at EDI but in reality you are only interested if the aircraft comes from LHR or LGW . BACON arrivals wait ages for GPUs pushback crews arrive when they feel like it, maybe if the ground handlers were more efficient there then you would keep the jobs BACON has always been seen as the poor mans BA when it comes to ground services at EDI.
Marlowe, yes the ground handling isnt up to much but dont blame the ground staff on the front line - we are there, trained and ready but our hands are tied by management down south and to an extent Connect management too. We are understaffed, the equipement wouldnt qualify for a museum and the investment as a whole is non-existant. It has been run-down over the past few years, more so since the management change at Waterworld (Waterside) last year.
The delays incurred by tech Connect aircraft and lack of Connect crews didnt help the cause either remember...