BF263533

This reminds me of my deceased older brother who was working at a gas station when he was in high school about 40 years ago. He was smoking cigarettes while filling up gas tanks.

I never shouted at him at when we were in high school, except that day when I said "do you want to cause an explosion?" He gave me a dumb laugh and avoided smoking while at the gas pumps after that. Unfortunately that smoking helped to contribute to a fatal brain hemmorhage 10 years ago at the age of 49.

Dawgfan6291

Good idea, because there is NO FRIGGIN WAY that Delta didn't know this was going on. See rampers has this thing, they can some how get a grill onto the ramp, and the boys over the HQ have no clue about it.

Anyways, Delta lets stuff like this happen all the time, and most of the Delta Delta pays for it. Hell sometimes ever Anderson is out there with em.

DLdweeb

I hear it tastes just like chicken.....


Is that a small bottle of lighter fluid under the jetway, or am I mistaken?

localady

As it should be... I say good for Delta.... As long as they aren't breaking any safety rules, I think this kind of stuff it great... I'm sure that it builds team spirit and lets these guys know that their work is appreciated.

raehl311

It is not appropriate to have employee functions in front of the customers. Period.

It doesn't matter if airport staff BBQ on the tarmac at every airport every day - it still shouldn't be done in front of the customers (unless, of course, you're inviting the customers).

I would, however, also say it's not appropriate to put a fire under anything your customers are going to walk through, regardless of how safe it REALLY is.

Again, I am not, in any way, objecting to the employees having a BBQ. I'm objecting to the poor judgment displayed when the location for the BBQ was chosen as under the jet bridge customers are going to walk though, in plain view of the customers. The tarmac is a big place. Having it there of all the places available was not bright.


Not to mention it's just generally bad manners to prepare/eat foot in front of people who can't have any of the food.

avidflyer

You clearly have never deplaned in Edmonton Canada in February...

ifette

Jet A has to be over 100 degrees F before it will even ignite... it's not exactly great starter fluid.

USAF_Pride

Happened all the time while I was in. Of course we didn't have jetways!!

cssanger

There are several mgmt run bbq's a year. this is undoubtedly one of them. It's nice that you think that ground staff is allowed to take a plane and park it wherever they see fit, but there isn't exactly autonomy in the job, the plane is stuck because whoever the gate coord in operations is cant fix it, not the ground crew.

Gargoyle

I'm not in that 3/4th.
I don't condone it. I applaud it.

ADLFO

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I affirm your affirmation, condone the condonation., and condemn the condemnation and think that everyone should relax about the relaxation station that led to the current situation.

toomanybooks

Serious questions:

Would those guys be allowed to stand there after eating and smoke a cigarette?

If not, why not?

justhere

I think the no smoking rule is not there to avoid jet fuel from igniting but rather because of all the anti-smoking/second hand smoke health rules.

Madinat

i haven't been!

MikeMpls

Or it's a holdover from the days when the planes used AvGas with enough lead to get the octane rating as high as 145.