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MQAAord · November 17th, 2005, 09:17

Is this a 30-50 seat airplane or a 767/777 kind of plane? It takes a WHOLE lot less time to board up 35 people than 200!

The more people, the more inclined I would be to go ahead and start the boarding process. When the CA has been found, with 30 people there's doubtful to be a delay. But if you wait to board 200 people and the CA does show up, it's going to take a while to get all those folks boarded up.

Bottom line: Always always always always always have a contact # of ANY crewmember that is not going to be staying at the hotel. Bill had a sim instructor at TWA get arrested for solicitation of prostitution while in MIA for a sim session. Thankfully there were no pax involved in this situation, but the instructor was a no show for the sim session, and calls were made to hospitals, police stations etc before he was finally located in a local lock-up! Had this been a show for a flight, it probably would have ended up cancelled because of the time involved.

November 17th, 2005, 09:17	#7
MQAAord Moderator Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: The Looney Bin Posts: 9,406	Is this a 30-50 seat airplane or a 767/777 kind of plane? It takes a WHOLE lot less time to board up 35 people than 200! The more people, the more inclined I would be to go ahead and start the boarding process. When the CA has been found, with 30 people there's doubtful to be a delay. But if you wait to board 200 people and the CA does show up, it's going to take a while to get all those folks boarded up. Bottom line: Always always always always always have a contact # of ANY crewmember that is not going to be staying at the hotel. Bill had a sim instructor at TWA get arrested for solicitation of prostitution while in MIA for a sim session. Thankfully there were no pax involved in this situation, but the instructor was a no show for the sim session, and calls were made to hospitals, police stations etc before he was finally located in a local lock-up! Had this been a show for a flight, it probably would have ended up cancelled because of the time involved. __________________ PPL SEL 100-ish hours TT Former American Airlines F/A (12 months) Former Simmons/Eagle F/A (6 years) Former Eagle ground school instructor (1 year) Former Eagle IOE instructor (3 years)