Foot Passengers - Sailing Wait

[just some guy]

The Esquimalt ran last Sunday, left DBay at 16:15

Historical Stats are looked at from the previous year to determine whether extra sailings are needed

Upper Management will decide based on historical traffic stats when its time to bring a vessel up to DBay for potential sailings on busy days, they tell the crewing dept. to man the ship with a certian licence (usually a "C"), then the decision is made by the Terminal manager and Tower Operator based on traffic demand at DBay and HSBay, if one or both terminals need the ship, way it goes, its called an MD sailing (Managers Discretion)
The company knows it'll sail, the passengers don't until its needed

[Dane]

Thanks for the information... and another question

the crew that then takes to Esqu must obviously be on call at the historically busy periods. Are they paid for this time? Like I know theres certain people that are on call for certain terminals and get paid for virtue of being on call, but would the entire crew benefit from this?

[kylefossett]

dane said:

Thanks for the information... and another question

the crew that then takes to Esqu must obviously be on call at the historically busy periods. Are they paid for this time? Like I know theres certain people that are on call for certain terminals and get paid for virtue of being on call, but would the entire crew benefit from this?

the crew probably comes in from the call board.

[kylefossett]

just said:

kylefossett said:

just some guy. you know alot about the ticketing, my question is how are you connected to bc ferries, an employee?

27 years at BCFerries in many different capacities


Don't tell anyone

Length of service makes it too long to be somebody i know. actually if you were that person you would have made a comment to me already.