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Originally Posted by mtsu_av8er  So, a funny exchange between MEM center and a Pinnacle flight yesterday (lots of weather).
Center: FLGXXXX, any reason you filed over GHM?
FLGXXXX: Dispatched filed us that way because of weather.
Center: Hmm, did they realize that's where all the weather is centered? Cleared direct BWG for now . . .  Is that certificate just handed out or something?  |
MTSU Aviator, It might be a good time now to share with everyone that you are a fellow aircraft 'spatcher as well! (Maybe you should have disclosed that while referring to dispatchers as idiots). Anyway, weather moves fast sometimes, and of course, it is always the dispatcher's fault where it ends up! Dang pilots! I will add that I didn't like doing regional airline dispatcher work either. Mainline dispatch is the way it is supposed to work. The dispatcher plans one flight and then watches over and communicates with that flight the whole time. At the regionals, the dispatchers crank out 12 to 14 releases an hour, and then get inundated with calls from whiny gate agents about why the flights are always late during that hour too. It can be difficult to follow all of the flights at that point. I think the FAA should put a limit on how many flight releases can be done in one hour. Just my humble opinion.