Dispatcher believes that the dispatch manager is operating outside of company policy when he instruc...

Narrative:

Had a flight waiting at the gate for the weather to clear. Operations supervisor called and asked why we wanted this flight to push with a t-storm in progress. I asked who told you to push the flight.they said the [dispatch manager] told them to push the flight because the crew is going to be illegal. I advised the ops agent to have the flight stay put. The question is who has operational control? The next question becomes...if the [dispatch manager] has not dispatched a flight in over 90 days how can they take operational control when by the company's own policy to be current to dispatch you must have worked the desk once in 90 days. 99 % of the [dispatch managers] have not dispatched a flight in many years.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Dispatcher believes that the Dispatch Manager is operating outside of company policy when he instructs an operations agent to push back a flight during a thunderstorm because the crew is about to go illegal.

Narrative: Had a flight waiting at the gate for the weather to clear. OPS supervisor called and asked why we wanted this flight to push with a T-STORM in progress. I asked who told you to push the flight.They said the [Dispatch Manager] told them to push the flight because the crew is going to be illegal. I advised the ops agent to have the flight stay put. The question is who has operational control? The next question becomes...if the [Dispatch Manager] has not dispatched a flight in over 90 days how can they take operational control when by the company's own policy to be current to dispatch you MUST have worked the desk once in 90 days. 99 % of the [Dispatch Managers] have not dispatched a flight in many years.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1210502
Time
Date	201410
Place
Locale Reference	FLL.Airport
State Reference	FL
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Dispatcher
Qualification	Dispatch Dispatcher
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

Dispatcher believes that the dispatch manager is operating outside of company policy when he instructs an operations agent to push back a flight during a thunderstorm because the crew is about to go illegal.