Dryden Air Services

My day on the ramp begins at 4am. We have a morning briefing at about 4:30am to discuss Game Plan for the day. The supervisor assigns flights to myself and the other leads and also assigns our crews.
After that it's up to me to organize my crew, make sure everyone knows what gate we are working on, flight number, expected arrival or departure time, number of bags for off/on load. I will also assign each crew member a specific task or responsibility during the flight. After aircraft is loaded (or off and then onloaded if it's what we call "Turning the aircraft") I am responsible to push the aircraft back out onto the ramp.
If there are no more flights on that gate for the next hour or more we clean off all of our equipment, cones, chocks etc.
That's one flight and we usually do three or four every shift.

A typical day starts with either plane already on ground or about to land, prepare for gate and arrivals, all equipment deployed at Ramp, always learn new things in critical situations, excellent management who support and trained, share information, nice and help full co-workers always available to help, severe weather conditions to work specially snow and rain but most enjoyable is departure of Aircraft on time for its scheduled destination

Go work at McDonald's!! Management knows less then the new hires. Training is non-existent, weather is awful, constantly under pressure to do more with less and less. Equipment is really old but well maintained. You are constantly put in situations where mistakes can be made. Excellent team atmosphere from the actual employees. I am shocked at the lack of common sense in the airport world. I am more scared of flying then ever!

The best part of working with Dryden Air was working with your co-workers. They made the times go by much faster. You meet so many people as check them to their destinations. 

DAS was a seasonal job position. Good communication with staff and other locations. Training was quick and helpful. The manager was a great asset to the company.

Decent company until the day they sold to ASIG. Everything got much worse after that, and continues to get worse to this day. Management was horrible and completely disrespectful of their employees.

waiting for the arrival of specific planes,unloading luggage,loading luggage,passengers,cargo.hardest part was guiding the planes to the parking area,also working in all kind of weather on the tarmac

Fueled airplanes, or ground handled as a Lead Hand.
Management is terrible.

Very Busy and Very Complicated. A typical day at work would be hectic and you have to think fast.

Great management, Great staff, all hard workers, pay is very good, fun work atmosphere

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