An air carrier captain reported no painted lead-in lines for his aex gate.

Narrative:

Arrived at aex for the first time in several months. I noticed that the gate lead-in line was never painted as promised several months before. I suspect it was to save money. Painted markings are essential for safe taxiing. The aex gate lacks such markings and has lacked them ever since the station opened. Managers from station on up; should be aware that those markings are nice to have in broad daylight; but become critical to aircraft safety at night or in low visibility conditions. All ground mishaps are preventable and failing to provide proper taxi markings is asking for trouble.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An Air Carrier Captain reported no painted lead-in lines for his AEX gate.

Narrative: Arrived at AEX for the first time in several months. I noticed that the gate lead-in line was never painted as promised several months before. I suspect it was to save money. Painted markings are essential for safe taxiing. The AEX gate lacks such markings and has lacked them ever since the station opened. Managers from Station on up; should be aware that those markings are nice to have in broad daylight; but become critical to aircraft safety at night or in low visibility conditions. All ground mishaps are preventable and failing to provide proper taxi markings is asking for trouble.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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	895119
Time
Date	201006
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	AEX.Airport
State Reference	LA
Environment
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Flight Phase	Taxi
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	No Specific Anomaly Occurred All Types