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Drunk AA Employee Fell Asleep in the Cargo Hold From Kansas City to Chicago
A baggage handler for American Airlines took a nap in the cargo hold of a Boeing 737 in Kansas City this past weekend – and the plane took off for O’Hare. It was early Saturday morning at the Kansas City airport. American Airlines said a 23-year-old Piedmont Airlines employee who was working for American “inadvertently fell asleep in the forward cargo hold” of a plane bound for O’Hare. (www.aviationrepublic.com) Altro...
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A soon to be ex-employee I would think.
He had plenty of time to get the good stuff out of all of the bags! Is he UNION? If so, won't be fired......
But he will not receive any frequent flyer miles. He received a free flight after all. This happens more often than we are aware of with other carriers.
Do you mean I could get union wages to sleep, and get a free laptop or gold watch every shift? Sign me up!
have a heart here: this person performs physically taxing labor, lifting and placing hundreds of overweight pieces of luggage, hour after hour, outdoors in weather foul and fair, for a company suspected of institutional heartlessness, faithfully day after day, having a fine work record for the most part, who possibly took an indoor break, in a place not of the best choosing, who secretly yearned for just a bit of fresh air in an adjacent city, whilst on the clock, just closed his eyes for a second or so, and look- here he is as a object lesson for evaluators acrosss the internet, ;and all he asks for is just a bit of understanding..
I could have some sympathy if he merely "took an indoor" break. I know how hard it is, I have worked the ramp in Texas. It's the intoxicated part that I can't have a heart about.
I believe it was more like a hangover and he had to be at work at oh' dark thirty.
Alcohol and aircraft? Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
The ramp is no place for intoxicated employees or anyone who has no business on the ramp. There are numerous movements of aircraft, fueling trucks, numerous sources for continually in this area. It is organized confusion and certainly no place for an intoxicated worker.
