LA Times Vignette on AA LAX Operations
Dec 26, 2016, 2:46 pm
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LA Times Vignette on AA LAX Operations
Perhaps this belongs in some other thread...I'll let the mods decide that. Anyway, here's an article I saw in this morning's LA Times covering aircraft turnaround. I found it light and interesting morning reading. I haven't been flying AA much lately, but hopefully this helps with on time operations:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...226-story.html
A quick turnaround is so important — and employee performance so pivotal — that American Airlines has adopted an incentive program: If American Airlines ranks higher than its competitors in three key on-time categories, all 113,000 employees get $150 each.
Dec 26, 2016, 3:03 pm
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I commented on this article earlier today in this thread (post #44):
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...er-thread.html
But then again I may have been in the wrong thread.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...er-thread.html
But then again I may have been in the wrong thread.
Dec 27, 2016, 1:46 pm
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Dec 28, 2016, 5:31 pm
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Dec 29, 2016, 7:09 am
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"Business travelers are much easier, she said, because they usually carry little more than a briefcase holding a laptop computer."
Got a chuckle and an eye-roll from that line. I don't remember the last time I saw any business traveller board with just a briefcase.
Got a chuckle and an eye-roll from that line. I don't remember the last time I saw any business traveller board with just a briefcase.
Dec 29, 2016, 7:12 am
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Dec 29, 2016, 7:37 am
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Totally agree. While I haven't done a MR yet I have had the pleasure of sitting next to a fellow PAX completing one (on the return of his SAN-xxx-JFK-ATL-SAN). He was traveling extremely light, as would I in that scenario.