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Some are "claiming" that "woke" is being used to hire for these jobs now too. If this is true its only a matter of time before we have some major disaster of course.
The pilots have no control over the pushback once they tell the ground crew that the airplane is ready. It is the ground crew that determines if it is safe to push back. And they assuredly did have a spotter, since the airplane was not allowed to move without one, based on Airline and FAA policy. The FAA ground controller was very clear that he did not have control over that ramp area. Either Virgin hadn't come up on ground frequency when the smaller aircraft called ground to report their pushback and the ensuing discussion, or Virgin wasn't paying attention to what was going on ahead of their position.Screwed up system.
ATC isn't controlling ground traffic and wants to leave it up to the captains to sort it out.
They at least need a ground man to maintain order.
Instead we have a Colonist backing up without a spotter and a snarky Redcoat driving into the colonist's maneuvering space.
Two ya-hoos vying for the same piece of tarmac.
Looked to me that they sided with Virgin and that Southwest has a "me first" culture.The pilots have no control over the pushback once they tell the ground crew that the airplane is ready. It is the ground crew that determines if it is safe to push back. And they assuredly did have a spotter, since the airplane was not allowed to move without one, based on Airline and FAA policy. The FAA ground controller was very clear that he did not have control over that ramp area. Either Virgin hadn't come up on ground frequency when the smaller aircraft called ground to report their pushback and the ensuing discussion, or Virgin wasn't paying attention to what was going on ahead of their position.
It sounds like Virgin felt that they should have had the right-of-way since they were bigger. Actually, it you watch the diagram representing the location of the airplanes, the smaller airplane needed to be moved because it was impeding traffic to several gates. Virgin just ambled into a temporary congestion and had to wait until it worked itself out.
The snippy comments from other pilots tell you what real professionals thought about the incident.
Next time I see feral kids running wild I'll see future Southwest employees.Every parent has experienced what happens when an adult isn't around.