United Airlines Unions: More Bodies

How many United Airlines employees does it take to assist in the deplaning? (No jetway, using stairs, small plane with plane side luggage check.) Answer: 7

2 unloading baggage, 1 to hold a green plane side luggage check tag to inform people who checked luggage at the plane to stop and wait for the other two to unload the luggage, 4 to direct people into the terminal.

How many United Airlines employees does it take to operate a concourse to concourse shuttle? Answer: 9

Starting Point: 1 person at the gate, 1 person at stairway landing, 2 people by the door, 1 person driving the shuttle.

Ending Point: 3 people by the door, 1 person at the gate.

How many United Airlines employees does it take to operate a ticket counter during heavy delays? Answer: 3 or less (total 6 possible stations to be manned.)

I’m at the Cedar Rapids airport (CID) and there is one UA flight to Chicago and its delayed 80 minutes or so. There is one lady helping a ‘vip’/first class person and 2 others helping the rest of the crowd at a time where most of them will have to visit the ticket counter to rebook flights due to delays.

What a mess. We see headline after headline about how airlines are hemorrhaging money. The same thing is happening in Detroit. Companies are being forced to keep staffing levels at an unnecessary level based on threats from Unions. I mean seriously; it doesnt take nine (9) people to operate a damn shuttle.

VMWare Converter: Hidden Network Adapters

If you are using VMware Enterprise Converter to do Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) machine conversions you will probably run into this issue at some point. When you boot a recently converted machine and attempt to modify the TCP/IP settings on the new VMware NIC you may receive an error stating that there is an existing NIC with the same IP settings.

Basically this is the ghost of NIC’s past. You need to reveal the hidden NIC and remove it. While this is not absolutly required it is most certainly recommended. Here’s what you need to do:

Step 1: Open up a command prompt

Step 2: Type – “SET DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1″ and hit <Enter>

Step 3: Type – “START DEVMGMT.MSC” and hit <Enter>

Step 4: Once the Device Manger opens to the “View” menu and select “Show Hidden Devices”. Expand the Network Interface portion of the device tree and you should be able to remove the phantom NIC.

This should also give you a chance to remove any other non-existent hardware that is left over from the physical server.