The SHOW: Airlines still a "good gig"??

[Griz882]

Probably some qualified ground personnel that will have an extra pay bump due to the “qual”.

Years ago, while in grad school, I worked for Continental as a ramp ape and that’s what they did. All of them were A&P types. The big 3 pay qualifications for bag stackers were Ramp Chief (push back tractor driver), Lavatory (no thanks), and Fueler. Ahhh…the ugly underbelly of the show.

 

[taxi1]

can’t imagine that these will be certificates pilots

From the article…

The taxi crew role requires pilots to already hold a valid Air Transport Pilot (ATP) certificate or equivalent, along with appropriate type ratings or experience. Responsibilities include conducting pre-taxi checks, communicating with ground control, and safely maneuvering aircraft between stands and runway holding points. These pilots will operate widebody aircraft such as the Boeing 777 and 787, which British Airways regularly deploys on transatlantic routes. However, they will not be involved in takeoff or landing phases, which remain the responsibility of flight crews.

If you can do this job remotely from Del Rio, TX, I’m sold.

 

[ChuckMK23]

Re: Near disaster UA landing incident at EWR..

 

[taxi1]

Re: Near disaster UA landing incident at EWR..

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Doesn’t sound career enhancing

 

[ChuckMK23]

Doesn’t sound career enhancing

I think in the end we will probably discover that the pilots were not at fault and this was a case of either environmental or operational issues. This is what pilot unions are for to protect folks from irrational findings and to ensure that this does not impact careers. But the memes coming out on various aviation forums/social media are gold!

 

[Griz882]

This is what pilot unions are for to protect folks from irrational findings and to ensure that this does not impact careers

Sure…but if he’d had hit a donut truck then irrational would be in order.

 

[taxi1]

environmental or operational issues

Every now and then at NAS Norfolk the winds would be such we would use runway 19 (no longer active) and if we were lucky, it was during the sand crab 500 when all the GS employees were trying to get off the base.

Although they had the flashing lights at the end of the runway to block traffic, the traffic jam of everyone getting off base would mean that there were cars stuck there during an approach. At which time we would target the threshold and plop that thing down just above their heads. Even then, landing on the numbers, we still had plenty of altitude over the cars.

That international flight bouncing it off of a bread truck? Holy cow.

 

[wink]

I don't get this. I flew out of ORD for a year. United and AAL use the "Supertugs" to move from T5 back to the other terminals, and I'm guessing they don't pay pilots to sit in those.

Nope. Just "qualified" brake riders, all maintenance types who could run the APU, power up the plane and had a grasp of the systems in case something went sideways.