I have no attitude problem. I simply resent it when an ex BACon staffmember gripes about the situation they are in and attempts to pin the blame on how terrible Flybe is.
I hope this wasnt aimed at me.I have never said it was Flybe,I have never said Flybe was terrible. If anything, I think BA are harsh for taking away our Interline agreements before we can use Flybe ones.If you read my initial post about staff travel, i said "someone is taking the pi55",i didnt say who i thought was doing so.
I agree with Oldflyboy - I have been to speak to performance managers only to be told "youre here to make money". Or when positioning home,giving crewing a heads up to let them know the flight is overbooked, but they dont care and so crew almost get offloaded from flights because surprise surprise,the flight is overbooked. Particularly with the 145, in some destinations catering is offloaded or pax numbers are restricted because it is too heavy to take off.
When there is a problem to solve, who do you speak to? Contact numbers for the office at BHX keep changing, so its not in the little blue folder. Crewing cant help (not that you can get through).People are actually having to come into work to speak to someone about a problem they might have, which sometimes causes last minute "sickness" and more unhappy crew because they've been caught off standby and crewing are trying to rush them to get in asap. We NEED a point of contact to be able to speak to PM's at our bases.
I think once things settle down, it wont be that bad. At the moment, the 145 at BHX is so undercrewed purser wise - and the worst is yet to come as more leave for BA Mainline and Virgin. I dont see why they arent promoting some 145 Juniors - there are plenty to go round,and they have very little work at the moment - approx 150 hours timeaway, yet pursers on the 145 are pushing 300 hours. If people arent leaving,they'll soon be going sick with fatigue because theyre so overworked.Hopefuly with 145 Juniors being converted onto the 146 and Dash, the workload will balance out, but soon the 145 fleet is going to be grounded - no captains, no FO's and no pursers. There are already a lot of cancellations and delays - if this increases, it will do Flybe no favours.
Swissport arent brilliant - had an inicident a few weeks back, it was the first flight of the day for the aicraft, it hadnt been cleaned the night before so all the rubbish was still on and it was a tip. the dispatcher came onto the aircraft and asked if we were ready for passengers,told him no and that we needed cleaners. so he sent us the passengers,who we had to turn back into the departure lounge - of course they were not happy.why do they do that?!?!Even when we're on a long day and we've got our 50 minute turnaround so we can eat,as soon as the last passenger is off its "when can we send the passengers,five minutes?" which is frustrating because they know its stil a good 40 minutes at least before departure
lets just hope things improve!