Originally Posted by
N702ML
DEADHEADING crew members ARE specifically told to pre-board or board as soon as they get to the gate...and here is why...
If the deadheading crew member is boarding a full flight and their bags have to be checked, that could possibly delay the crewmember from getting to the next gate to work their assigned flight.....
Even more disrupting is that the deadheading crew member may have to check their bags and they get lost...
Amazing... so the airlines know they have a problem with not having enough overhead space, and they know they have a problem with lost baggage, and they know they have problems with long times at baggage claim.
Yet instead of SOLVING those problems, they come up with rules and techniques so their own employees can get around these problems, while in the process further inconveniencing their paying customers...
Perhaps if crewmembers began losing luggage, or delaying flights for 45 minutes while they waited to receive their bags at Baggage Claim, perhaps then these endemic problems would get solved...
I can dream, can't I???