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American Airlines sends dozens of flights to their destinations without a single piece of luggage
Well this is taking luggage handling incompetence to the next level. (roadwarriorvoices.com) Altro...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
American...working hard to meet the standards set by their new partners.
People should be fired over this, especially the liars.
No one could come up with another way to getting the baggage to the A/C?
so the conveyor broke - how did we move baggage before we had conveyors ? there always has to be a work around - they should have brought in more manpower - what are the customers to do - this is a real pathetic scene - I would ask for my money back and never fly AA again
Back in December 1988 (could have been 1989) I was PHL waiting for my TWA flight to LAX. While I was waiting in a quiet part of the airport there was a meeting of all the American Airlines personnel (skycaps, baggage handlers, counter and gate people). Seems the shift manager had passed out the new luggage tags 1 day early - the software in baggage sorter wasn't getting updated into the next day. As a consequence no baggage could be loaded and the shift manager could not get an executive on the phone to authorize a late push from the gate. Therefore two (2) B-747 jets left with passengers but no baggage to the Caribbean Islands. What a pleasant surprise! But hey - American Airlines preserved their precious 100% on-time record. There were folks crying at the end of the meeting because they were told that at least one person was going to lose their job - definitely the shift manager and at least on collective bargaining unit person because of this SNAFU. But they were congratulated for 'doing the right thing and making sure the jets pushed on time."
Your story may be partly right, but I'm guessing it didn't involve any 747's. I was a TWA pilot flying the 747 and I never heard of one operating out of PHL to the Caribbean.
You are correct, Sir. AA had sold their last B-747s in the early to mid 1980s. I rode one to HNL on my honeymoon just before recall from furlough at AA in late April, 1984. I believe they were gone within the next year. Freighter versions lasted a bit longer until they were sold to UPS.