News and notes from around the interweb:
- United Airlines is firing flight attendants for sick leave abuse and they’re using technology to identify sick calls they believe are likely fake.
For instance, United is flagging cabin crew who try and fail to trade trips they’re assigned, and then call in sick for them. And they’re flagging sick calls on days they’ve had time off requests denied. But those cases aren’t all open and shut!
Take a crew member who goes on a legitimate vacation but doesn’t fly home as scheduled for his next work trip because he has fallen sick with stomach flu. The union warns that United could take his sick call as an excuse to fraudulently extend his vacation.
Or, how about a flight attendant who challenges crew scheduling over a call-out, but then ends up cutting herself the same day, and then can’t work due to the injury. United could flag this as sick leave abuse due to the recent disagreement with crew scheduling over the trip assignment.
- British Airways Accidentally Leaks Seat Map For Reconfigured A380 Superjumbos But Refit Project Could Be in Trouble
In total, there will be 421 seats, representing a 10% reduction in the current configuration of 469 seats, as British Airways seeks to capitalize on the popularity of its premium economy cabin.
…Unfortunately, if the rumors are to be believed, aviation regulators are unhappy with this plan, and it all comes down to how cabin crew would deal with an unruly passenger on the upper deck. BA’s passenger restraint kit is designed to secure a disruptive passenger to a seat, effectively strapping them down for the duration of the flight, but the kit is currently only approved for use on economy and premium economy seats.
- Never gets old.
There’s a perv on my flight…
by
u/nicolaswalker in
americanairlines - New EgyptAir Airbus A350-900 business class suites. (HT: @Singal3)
- Detroit airport says it can’t stop ICE flights which seems obvious – runways are basically like highways, and they have no authority over federal government charters – but it isn’t obvious to protestors.
- On the flight where Corey Lewandowski fired a pilot over DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s missing blanket last year, Lewandowski reportedly violated the sterile cockpit rule (the Coast Guard has a similar rule to FAA).
The new details about the pilot incident suggest Lewandowski may have violated the safety guidelines set out by the U.S. Coast Guard, which operated the plane.
Lewandowski entered the cockpit before the plane had reached 10,000 feet (3,048 meters) and while the seatbelt sign remained on, one of the people said.
This happened on a Coast Guard-operated Gulfstream, not on the $70 million DHS sex plane.
Sick? How about yet another historic snowstorm. Hardly anything flying in the NE today.
Oh, I see, this is yet another union-bashing post. Mediocre.
Union bashers are evil, like all right-wing thinking folks!
Unions motto: “Protect the laziest”
Aw, lucky! I haven’t seen a fun 4-letter combo in a while.
@1990 – Obligatory meme acknowledgement and appreciation – hope you didn’t have to travel back during this storm!
UAL Flight Attendants would love to have 1990 as their boss. Work would be optional in his world.
you mean a union can’t fix this, 1989.75?
Noem &. Lewandowski. Love maga style!
Sterile cockpit? The puerile jokes write themselves.
1990 is such a knee jerk union apologist that he is blind to the fact that the same methods of detecting phony sick calls could be used at nonunionized Delta.
Nor does the trend to use such methods have anything to do with a snowstorm.
Businesses have the right to ask employees to provide proper documentation of sickness if it backs up to PTO. My job does it.
In a world where people free admit the work to live companies have to protect themselves from fraud and abuse.
I don’t see an unreasonable position by management. People have to protect themselves from getting sick on the job and off of it. I worked many years without taking a single hour sick.
@Retard (1990, but I repeat myself) – Don’t you have some snow to shovel or something along those lines?
Parker is absolutely correct.
Mike,
1989.75 talks the socialism gig bigtime but he doesn’t do work and never has.
WHY would “1991” think that “…like all right-wing thinking folks!” are evil? I am a conservative and have been for all my life. I am NOT “evil”. This type of rhetoric shows, very clearly, his/her distain for those who might disagree with his/her opinion. In my humble opinion, the United sick leave policy shows management’s disregard for the employee. I will agree that calling in sick with intent to extend one’s vacation is wrong and should be dealt with accordingly. Why hasn’t management instituted a “PTO” or “paid time off” scheme? Other companies have done that. PTO is accrued based on the employee’s tenure with the company and can “roll over” each year. Then, the employees could take PTO to extend the vacation. If there is a PTO scheme and the employee fakes sickness, then they should be terminated…fraud…plain and simple. Sadly, United’s management has to deal with a third party…a union. Sadly, the flight attendants have to deal with a third party, too. The same union. The union would be totally unnecessary if management treated the employees with an open mind and carefully negotiate their common goals. The flight attendants could do the same. But, since both sides have to deal with the third party which, like herpes, is the gift that keeps on taking.