Ground Crew Member Scans Boarding Passes at Gate
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Ground Crew Member Scans Boarding Passes at Gate
Yesterday, RAP - MSP, while the gate agent helped a disabled passenger board she enlisted a ground crew member to scan the passengers boarding passes. The GA did give the ground crew person a 10 second tutorial.
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Stuff like this happens at small airports often. Flew out of CHO a few years ago and a ground crew member was at the ticket counter. Also last week on my OGG-LAX flight, a man with a UA Tech Ops vest came on the aircraft (not sure what for).
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DL also outsources maintenance in smaller stations which could explain the UA Tech Ops guy...I saw AA line maintenance onboard a while back (can't remember exactly where).
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Same person checks you and your bags in at the ticket counter, scans your bp at the gate then loads bags. There is no one else.
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Even FTers can scan boarding passes at the gate. A bunch of us did this during the "GA for a day" experience at the big DL ATL DO. AFAIK nothing bad happened as a result (and it was fun as well as enlightening to see stuff from the other side).
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in fact I wish we could do that again. It would be insightful to see the world of a ga with snap, etc
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Oftentimes at smaller stations the same agents are cross-utilized both at the gate, in the lobby, and on the ramp. An agent may go from checking in to throwing bags and someone might come up from the ramp to work a gate.
DL also outsources maintenance in smaller stations which could explain the UA Tech Ops guy...I saw AA line maintenance onboard a while back (can't remember exactly where).
DL also outsources maintenance in smaller stations which could explain the UA Tech Ops guy...I saw AA line maintenance onboard a while back (can't remember exactly where).
I would have to go back and look but I think OOG was a line station till DL cut TechOps bone deep +40% in bankruptcy.