Originally Posted by
DLASflyer
Not weird at all. Unifi workers are paid by the hour. They have no profit sharing and no incentive to perform, deliver bags on time, etc. At my airport they know they can't meet the bags on time threshold so now they just scan all the bags planeside and leave them for awhile until they have time to actually deliver to the claim. Chronically understaffed.
It does worry me a bit that these bottom of the barrel contractors aren't just throwing bags but also performing safety critical functions like de-icing. Frontier recently had a near disaster with that.
Why do you call them bottom of the barrel? Why do you say they have no incentive to perform? Why can they not perform critical safety functions well?
You do know that at most major airport operations like say SLC it's a contractor who does everyone's deicing, right?
Folks on FlyerTalk seem to have this propensity to speak of or think of contractors in the airline field like a highway road crew of laborers sentenced to pick up litter. I find it humorous that thought when many are consultant/contractors who probably are thought of the same way by the employees at companies where they go in and do temporary work.