'Piss Up' and 'Brewery', part 2
Dec. 30th, 2003 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peteryoung
Having spent several hours in my office today on standby, I've spent some of the time trying to get more information than just what we're hearing from the BBC, re. the sudden imposition of Sky Marshalls on British flights from that often infuriating 'mis-Administration' across the Atlantic.
You'd think my own Ops Centre could tell me everything I need to know, but everyone's just been quoting bloody press releases at me, and my specific questions (some of which I asked in my previous post) are met with "Well, we can't answer that right now", until they get the word (a black-and-white internal memo that they can quote at me) from on high. My own managers are able to pass on little that's relevant to MY job, and even the trade unions are running in circles.
There's also a small two-paragraph message on a noticeboard saying BA will comply with US rules in order for our planes to be able to land there, so that's all our Management are officially saying to us the crew directly, and all we can say for sure is what we've already learned from the news, that the Captain will know if there's a Marshall on board, but not necessarily who he is.
So as I'm going to Philadelphia tomorrow and New York on the 4th January I'll just have to find out first hand, won't I?
Note to self: Must remember to borrow my hotel's copy of the local Almanac as I walk the empty streets of Philly on New Year's Day lurking suspiciously around the Liberty Bell and other glorious reminders of American 'freedom'.
You'd think my own Ops Centre could tell me everything I need to know, but everyone's just been quoting bloody press releases at me, and my specific questions (some of which I asked in my previous post) are met with "Well, we can't answer that right now", until they get the word (a black-and-white internal memo that they can quote at me) from on high. My own managers are able to pass on little that's relevant to MY job, and even the trade unions are running in circles.
There's also a small two-paragraph message on a noticeboard saying BA will comply with US rules in order for our planes to be able to land there, so that's all our Management are officially saying to us the crew directly, and all we can say for sure is what we've already learned from the news, that the Captain will know if there's a Marshall on board, but not necessarily who he is.
So as I'm going to Philadelphia tomorrow and New York on the 4th January I'll just have to find out first hand, won't I?
Note to self: Must remember to borrow my hotel's copy of the local Almanac as I walk the empty streets of Philly on New Year's Day lurking suspiciously around the Liberty Bell and other glorious reminders of American 'freedom'.
