poor islandsflug
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poor islandsflug
Poor old islandsflug, their first year with a based crew at BRS and look what they have had to endure:
Delay upon delay due to tech problem's and when they are not tech they get lumped with hefty ATC delays, to top it all off this morning the HH CFU/BRS bags ended up on the HH CFU/NCL and vice-versa meaning the NCL bound aircraft had to stop at BRS and then wait half an hour for the NCL bags to be re-loaded when it arrived!!!
I'm sure every airport has one airline each season who has the worst of everything; My question is who will be next!?
Delay upon delay due to tech problem's and when they are not tech they get lumped with hefty ATC delays, to top it all off this morning the HH CFU/BRS bags ended up on the HH CFU/NCL and vice-versa meaning the NCL bound aircraft had to stop at BRS and then wait half an hour for the NCL bags to be re-loaded when it arrived!!!
I'm sure every airport has one airline each season who has the worst of everything; My question is who will be next!?
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Admittedly Islandflug have brought some of their problems on their own heads. Crew reporting 30 minutes or less prior to pushback (or even after departure time!) is never going to lead to an on time departure. Similarly, filing flight plans 30 minutes prior to departure is inevitably going to lead to slot restrictions, especially when there are only so many arrivals permitted at certain HH destinations. Also, the obsession with their toilets (TF-ELJ in particular) helps to delay flights, as the crew and engineer insist they are repeatedly dropped time and time again due to the minging condition of the system on board, and not because they haven't been serviced.
Miraculously, things have improved in the last few weeks as they now have a base manager. Crews now turn up on time for the flight. Departure times on the flight plan have been 'cooked' so that a 3 hour slot delay will now allow an on time departure (very smart - I like it), though they're knackered if that doesn't happen because the crew won't even be at the airport at that time of the morning.
Miraculously, things have improved in the last few weeks as they now have a base manager. Crews now turn up on time for the flight. Departure times on the flight plan have been 'cooked' so that a 3 hour slot delay will now allow an on time departure (very smart - I like it), though they're knackered if that doesn't happen because the crew won't even be at the airport at that time of the morning.
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Witchdoctor is right to a certain extent. Crew report times at BRS still aren't 100% even though the summer season is more than half way through. As far as tech delays are concerned, they're bound to seem to be more exacerbated for an airline with comparatively few aircraft...
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Islandsflug are a shoestring outfit with a lot of good people working hard for them.however good will only lasts so long, what everyone wants at the end of the day is decent pay for not too long of a weeks work, Two things you wont get working for HH. I know, I used to work for them. The only thing poor in Islandsflug are the Crews/engineers in all the Outstations keeping the show on the road
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hey everyone...
i work for islandsflug in DUB base, and i am afraid to say anything, incase my station manager is one of you!!! lol
but, yeah, its a little annoying when they hire "experienced" flight and cabin crew; and they cant even issue a roster 7 days in advance, and as for the pay.... i'm having beans for dinner tonight!
i work for islandsflug in DUB base, and i am afraid to say anything, incase my station manager is one of you!!! lol
but, yeah, its a little annoying when they hire "experienced" flight and cabin crew; and they cant even issue a roster 7 days in advance, and as for the pay.... i'm having beans for dinner tonight!
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indeed. He'd be better off trying the ops controller for equipment. Load controllers are effectively unconnected with Islandflug seeing as the captain has to do his own loadsheet. Wonder if any of them know what the numbers are for the compartments in the hold yet?
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"The captain has to do his own load sheet" SHOCK HORROR!!!
It wasn't so many years ago that this was the NORM on shorthaul charter and schedule.
We would prepare the outbound load and trim sheet in Ops and the inbound whilst in the cruise, as far as we could go. As soon as the load advice arrived we filled in the numbers, calculated the trim and off we went.
My wife, a senior traffic officer for a major pax and freight carrier, can still do a manual load and trim sheet for a B747-200F.
Even though we have a lot of automation on the flight deck we still retain our manual skills.
It wasn't so many years ago that this was the NORM on shorthaul charter and schedule.
We would prepare the outbound load and trim sheet in Ops and the inbound whilst in the cruise, as far as we could go. As soon as the load advice arrived we filled in the numbers, calculated the trim and off we went.
My wife, a senior traffic officer for a major pax and freight carrier, can still do a manual load and trim sheet for a B747-200F.
Even though we have a lot of automation on the flight deck we still retain our manual skills.
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Does anyone have details on the Islandsflug diversion yesterday, enroute ACE from DUB, smoke in the cockpit mentioned. Rumour has it the aircraft continued after a short stop but had to dirvert a second time......?
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Witchdoctor - we've been doing Codeco loadsheets for HH all summer - our a/c is w/b approved! Even so, you would have thought that the engineer would know that the ramp staff deal with GPU's - why call the load controller? DOH!
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Redfield,
Sorry bud, but at NCL HH do their own loadsheets following a small matter of a flight deck induced load cock up a few weeks back. Aircraft not to be loaded until flight deck and senior ramp have spoken, and flight deck do a manual loadsheet once we provide the P&W.
Interested to know at which north east station you do something different?
Sorry bud, but at NCL HH do their own loadsheets following a small matter of a flight deck induced load cock up a few weeks back. Aircraft not to be loaded until flight deck and senior ramp have spoken, and flight deck do a manual loadsheet once we provide the P&W.
Interested to know at which north east station you do something different?
