Thread: One Great Team Pass

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jumper @ Apr 23 2009, 11:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Two Confirmed space tickets!


I&#39;m using one for my Buenos Aries trip and hording the other one!!!


Ohhhhhhhhhh - Sydney...... [/b]

um--what are you talking about?

Got the e-mail today - the long and short of it is:

"ATLANTA, April 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL - News) today announced it is giving nearly 70,000 employees worldwide a pair of free tickets for travel anywhere Delta flies. The free tickets are in recognition of how hard employees have worked during the past six months to consolidate Delta and Northwest into the world&#39;s largest airline."

That&#39;s awesome...If you work for mainline.

I, working for Comair, soon to be Regional Handling Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta, will not get any positive space tickets. The reasoning for these free positive space tickets is because of how hard everyone is working while merging the two airlines. I know that the comair employees in my station have been busting there asses lately. We get this AOP/PARS thing thrown at us, "this is the button you push to check someone in, now go work the gate, the flight is oversold and delayed, and you need to add three infants, a wchr, and get 15 hotel vouchers." It&#39;s been extremely stressful lately, and to be honest, some of the best employees I have talked to have their eyes open for other opportunities. I went to work today and found out that soon, as an active employee working hard everyday, I will be just above buddy passes on all mainline flights. I understand this for Skywest, Freedom, etc. They are not a part of Delta, they are contracted by Delta to provide a service. Comair, Mesaba, Compass, and the future RHS are all owned by Delta. They are a part of Delta. These are not third party contracted companies.

I fix an oversold NW flight, get it out, and literally sprint over to another gate to rebook people for a CXLD DL flight. I finish it all, hours later, I&#39;ve been screamed and cursed at by multiple people. It&#39;s finally over, I pull up DLnet, and read this.

I&#39;m a tad frustrated right now.

Sad part is, my husband will probably have to use those 2 passes to commute (if allowable). I&#39;m not sure pilots would even get the bonus.
Sorry Comair emps got dissed so badly. We have our share of annoyance with connections, trying to commute to NY. I&#39;m sorry for your frustration.
PS--thanks for reinforcing my post for Paulino&#39;s "weight" problem. I watched rev pax remove the 51st pound from his bag the other day--one shoe!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ColoAvs19 @ Apr 24 2009, 03:33 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

That&#39;s awesome...If you work for mainline.

I, working for Comair, soon to be Regional Handling Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta, will not get any positive space tickets.

I&#39;m a tad frustrated right now.[/b]

OK, I&#39;ll say it - that REALLY Bites, You ARE Delta, and therefore should share in the reward! Hopefully, they will reconsider this before they implement the policy (and it wouldn&#39;t be the first time they made corrections and changes - things are so very fluid right now...)

What I don&#39;t understand is that you guys get to use PARS while we&#39;re all struggling to use Deltanet - or from what I understand a basterdised version of it....

I could do without the PS tickets. I just want my employee priority. A few weeks ago, looking by date on travelnet, I&#39;m like 5th in line. So I&#39;m sitting at the gate in FCO as the final boarding calls are made. I am number ONE. I was the only employee listed for that flight. The rest were all parents, non dependents, and retirees. My reward for being an active employee is that I get on ahead of these people. That&#39;s the way it should be.

Jumper I&#39;m not sure what kind of res system they&#39;ve got you guys on right now. How it is in my station, the NW computer was left at the NW gate. At the ticket counter, there&#39;re a couple NW computers. They run on the NW AOP/PARS system. Now, AOP is so simple if everything works. I just have no clue of how to fix issues or manually make stuff happen. On DLmatic, I know the entries are long and sometimes don&#39;t make sense, but I know them and am used to them and was taught them. If a flight number changed and a ticket needs reissued, I can do that in about 3 seconds. If we&#39;re oversold and I need to find flights on another airline and get the DBC and associated vouchers, I can easily do that. The training I recieved in AOP/PARS was basically:

Q How do I check someone in?
A Push this to check someone in.
Q But what if I need to add in infant to the PNR?
A That won&#39;t happen
Q That happens all the time, what about reissuing a ticket because the flight number changed 6 times since the pax purchased it?
A Again, that will never happen, here&#39;s the res number.

All the time I&#39;m fumbling with this system and I look like an idiot in front of pax. 9E is ready for departure, but they need a special document first. I only need to make 4 phone calls and wait on hold about 30 minutes until I get the right person that can tell me how to print it so they can depart. Now I need to back up the missed connections.

I&#39;ve heard that DLmatic will be the res system going forward, have you heard when that will be?

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I could do without the PS tickets. I just want my employee priority. A few weeks ago, looking by date on travelnet, I&#39;m like 5th in line. So I&#39;m sitting at the gate in FCO as the final boarding calls are made. I am number ONE. I was the only employee listed for that flight. The rest were all parents, non dependents, and retirees. My reward for being an active employee is that I get on ahead of these people. That&#39;s the way it should be."

SO, am I confused--were you flying as S3B or C? and all the others were boarded before you? I think I&#39;m reading that you aren&#39;t complaining, just stating what policy is? I do wonder about this: why should employee parents get lesser privs than employee children? They are directly related. I can see a point with non dependents (but they pay yield and have lower priority like S4, yes?) The new stepparents issue is questionable to me but it is what it is, I guess. We&#39;ll see how it all shakes down after June 23? We have the same questions at a gate--wondering about retirees or who&#39;s where in the line. Unless you have GIDS with the list showing (or laptop) you have no clue. Then there&#39;s the issue of clear-thru--who started at LAX earlier and I just got to CVG to make the same flight...that sorta stinks but I guess it&#39;s fair.

I was an S3. I was saying that on travelnet it only shows date of hire and buddy passes. So by date of hire only, I was 5th or so. But when you assign all the nonrevs a priority, some people will move up, some will move down. I&#39;ve got my 2007 DOH, say theres a 1985 nondependent child, 2 1998 parents, and a 1978 retiree. So 2007 is the most recent, but 1985, 1998, and 1978 are all S3B, so my 2007 DOH S3 is tops on the list. Now, as an S3C, I&#39;m bottom of the list.

Just like I read somewere(I think on airliners). With the amount of pilots and FAs being switched from CVG-JFK, there will be the situation that a OH pilot commuting to work is bumped by a mainline parent with 5 weeks seniority that&#39;s heading to NY for the night to see a Broadway show.

Geez--I totally forgot about the Comair JFK base. Shouldn&#39;t be that much of an issue unless the start using more Delta aircraft--it&#39;s mostly Comair for now. AT least they get to fly Comair jumpseats! my husband has a terrible time commuting CVG/JFK because of what we call the "plane du jour": we go to be and there are 15 seats on a CR9, wake up and it&#39;s now a 50-70 seater!! The most fun is when the first flight out cancels--both JFK and LGA and the day is totally ruined. He has to get lucky for DCA starting at 8am and hope he gets in for his 9pm showtime. So, he gets a hotel room the night before--it gets expensive but that&#39;s what it is.
I get your message about the recreational fliers but that&#39;s part of commuting, too.