Airport Operations
10 members · 7 posts · Airport ops
Airfield managers, ops staff, line service, and anyone whose job happens on the ground. Wildlife, snow removal, NOTAMs, construction phasing, and fuel farm politics.
10 members · 7 posts · Airport ops
Airfield managers, ops staff, line service, and anyone whose job happens on the ground. Wildlife, snow removal, NOTAMs, construction phasing, and fuel farm politics.
Curtis Mabry (pinned)
Every job on this airfield that is not flying an airplane. Line service, ops, snow, wildlife, fuel. If you have ever been told your work is not really aviation, this is the group.
Harriet Nakano
Flight service, adjacent to this group rather than in it. When you close a runway or the field goes unattended, the NOTAM reaches us and we brief it, but only if it is filed. We take the call from the pilot who did not know. Every one of those is a five minute conversation that a filing would have prevented.
Nadia Petrova
FBO desk, four years. The thing ops people can do for us that costs nothing: tell us when the fuel truck route changes, or when a taxiway closes overnight. We are the ones a crew shouts at when the answer is wrong, and half the time we did not know either.
Deandra Whitlock
ARFF, six years, joining from the fire side. Ask us for a walkthrough of your airfield response plan once a year, not once ever. We have found gates that no longer open and a fuel farm valve that had been repainted shut. Both on drills. Neither would have been fun to find live.
Alicia Ford
Tower and airfield ops should talk more than we do. We share a runway and a radio and about two meetings a year. Every airport I have worked has had a version of this gap and nobody thinks it is their job to close it.
Curtis Mabry
Snow plan review season. Our biggest lesson from last winter was that the field condition report is only as good as how fast it gets published. We cut our reporting delay from 25 minutes to under 8 and it changed more about safety than any equipment we bought.
Rosa Iglesias
line service pay question and i hope this is ok to ask. i make 17 an hour, i marshal, fuel, tow, de-ice, and clean. is that normal for a jet center or am i being taken advantage of? nobody at work will talk about numbers