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Just call me Rotty
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Rotty's Bar and Grill (@RJAF) Shinshu JP
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Well spring warmth is finally arriving to stay it seems, feels rather nice.
Spent a lot of the day outside, the final heavy wet snow and rain event of the season caused a large portion of one of our Maple trees to break. Wreckage being reduced to boards, firewood and also woodchips for the garden pathways.
Once it's all cleared I suspect the yard will be just about ready for a mowing.
Steady on.
Spent a lot of the day outside, the final heavy wet snow and rain event of the season caused a large portion of one of our Maple trees to break. Wreckage being reduced to boards, firewood and also woodchips for the garden pathways.
Once it's all cleared I suspect the yard will be just about ready for a mowing.
Steady on.
Gnome de PPRuNe
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Too close to Croydon for comfort
Age: 55
Posts: 5,917
Meeting up with a large group of ex-colleagues today - already done my daily 7 miles walk, a big Spoons breakfast coming up and then on with the imbibing in another pub. I suspect incoherence may assert itself later in the day...
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: N54 58 34 W02 01 21
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When aircrew 'dead-head', does their employer get charged? or does the carrier provide places FOC on the basis of spare seats which would otherwise be unoccupied?
Cunning Artificer
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: The spiritual home of DeHavilland
Age: 72
Posts: 3,107
Driving into work this morning the display of May flowers was the best I ever remember seeing. I suppose it must be time to cast a clout.
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: UK
Posts: 4,641
I see the Japanese have blown a crater in an asteroid so that they can get samples of the interior.
What's the betting that the explosion has changed the orbit of the asteroid and next time it goes around the Solar System it punches a hole in the Pacific.
What's the betting that the explosion has changed the orbit of the asteroid and next time it goes around the Solar System it punches a hole in the Pacific.
Nemo Me Impune Lacessit
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Derbyshire, England.
Posts: 4,043
When aircrew 'dead-head', does their employer get charged? or does the carrier provide places FOC on the basis of spare seats which would otherwise be unoccupied?
Surely 'dead head' aircrew using spare seats would be rather unpleasant for other passengers? In a box in the hold is surely a more 'tasteful' option?
and long may you rot in Economy! No doubt if you were on board a ship you would be busting to be first through the door to get a seat at the Captain's table?
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Originally Posted by parabellum
Depends what agreement each airline has with others but dead-heading crew do require a firm booking, not 'stand-by', so at least 'best available' fare and possibly the full fare would usually be payable.
At one stage I worked for a company that also owned an airline.
We were required to 'give way' to non-company passengers if the flight became overbooked - this seemed a reasonable arrangement 'for the good of the company'.
Nemo Me Impune Lacessit
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Derbyshire, England.
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If you preference passengers over positioning crew you stand the chance, through the 'knock on' effect, of messing up several subsequent flights and connecting flights for what could amount to tens, dozens or even hundreds of pax through no crew in the right place at the right time. Where crew positioning requirements are known far enough ahead most operators block off the seats and they are never available to the travelling public. When positioning crew are given priority over passengers it is usually a one off, last resort event done to rectify a deteriorating situation and minimise the disruption to passengers, possibly hundreds of them.
Good luck with the sim, reddo ... I'm sure all will go well. Just call me Rotty
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Rotty's Bar and Grill (@RJAF) Shinshu JP
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Nature: 1, A$$hat: 0. Yay nature.
Spring is being spring, warm temps yield to cold, rain and snow... briefly we hope. Suspecting about a week more of this rollercoaster.
Steady on//
Spring is being spring, warm temps yield to cold, rain and snow... briefly we hope. Suspecting about a week more of this rollercoaster.
Steady on//
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: Yorkshire
Posts: 20
Originally Posted by parabellum
... When positioning crew are given priority over passengers ...
Join Date: Aug 1998
Location: Ex-pat Aussie in the UK
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When aircrew 'dead-head', does their employer get charged? or does the carrier provide places FOC on the basis of spare seats which would otherwise be unoccupied?
