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06-07-2013, 07:13 AM
#241
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2008
Position: CL-65 captain
Posts: 2,244
OMG 80 please tell me you did not just tell a Compass pilot he was not mainline!!!!!!!!!!! You tryin to start a jumpseat war or something????
06-07-2013, 08:00 AM
#242
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Joined APC: Dec 2007
Posts: 1,068
I do that to screw with Delta mainline guys. I'm sure there's a few of them whose blood pressure ticks up a few points when they see it.
My only point in my previous comment was this: for an airline that so many people have preconceived notions about (founded or not), aggressively talking about and taking extreme stances on something as simple as tipping might give mainline guys pause as to whether or not a trip with you would be enjoyable. Personally, I would worry that you would spend all 4 days treating van drivers and wait staff poorly, which would make for unconformable meals and van rides.
Mooney - I didn't come to CPZ because I'm a NWA/Delta blowhard (I'm actually quite the opposite) nor do I (or anyone I can think of) think we're mainline pilots. Far from it. I needed a job after airline #1 failed on me, and CPZ was exactly that. No jumpseat war needed, even though the Delta guys refuse to reciprocate our F/A jumpseat agreement with them - leading to the end of that program on our end.
My only point in my previous comment was this: for an airline that so many people have preconceived notions about (founded or not), aggressively talking about and taking extreme stances on something as simple as tipping might give mainline guys pause as to whether or not a trip with you would be enjoyable. Personally, I would worry that you would spend all 4 days treating van drivers and wait staff poorly, which would make for unconformable meals and van rides.
Mooney - I didn't come to CPZ because I'm a NWA/Delta blowhard (I'm actually quite the opposite) nor do I (or anyone I can think of) think we're mainline pilots. Far from it. I needed a job after airline #1 failed on me, and CPZ was exactly that. No jumpseat war needed, even though the Delta guys refuse to reciprocate our F/A jumpseat agreement with them - leading to the end of that program on our end.
06-07-2013, 08:06 AM
#243
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Joined APC: May 2013
Position: The Parlor
Posts: 1,247
06-07-2013, 08:22 AM
#245
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Joined APC: Dec 2005
Posts: 8,915
Water under the bridge. It's not like you could get in trouble at this point anyway. Just make sure you have your facts straight before you go bashing other pilot groups for an arbitrated decision and then backpedal using fatal accidents as some sort of heinous barometer that says they are worse than someone else.
"fatal accidents as some sort of heinous barometer that says they are worse than someone else"
No, what I said was nearly all of those regional airlines cease to exist after a fatal passenger death crash. Regions/Corporate Air, Air Midwest, Colgan, Chalks Ocean Airways. There is no denying that after the Colgan crash, the Colgan name had to go. Ocean Chalk airways was the oldest airline among the regionals to be in service but once the fatal crash happened in 2005, that airline was done for and shut down. It's not a matter of being worse than someone else, it's just looking at past history to see what happens to regional airlines when they have a big fatal passenger crash. Either the name disappears/changes, or the airline itself ceases to exist. This *fact* should have been accounted for in "career expectations." But anyway, like you said, what's done is done and is all water under the bridge.
06-07-2013, 11:55 AM
#246
Da Hudge
Joined APC: Oct 2006
Position: Poodle Whisperer
Posts: 17,473
The jackets they wear are one breast below mainline.
06-07-2013, 12:08 PM
#249
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2008
Position: Couch-Horizontal
Posts: 467
I do that to screw with Delta mainline guys. I'm sure there's a few of them whose blood pressure ticks up a few points when they see it.
My only point in my previous comment was this: for an airline that so many people have preconceived notions about (founded or not), aggressively talking about and taking extreme stances on something as simple as tipping might give mainline guys pause as to whether or not a trip with you would be enjoyable. Personally, I would worry that you would spend all 4 days treating van drivers and wait staff poorly, which would make for unconformable meals and van rides.
My only point in my previous comment was this: for an airline that so many people have preconceived notions about (founded or not), aggressively talking about and taking extreme stances on something as simple as tipping might give mainline guys pause as to whether or not a trip with you would be enjoyable. Personally, I would worry that you would spend all 4 days treating van drivers and wait staff poorly, which would make for unconformable meals and van rides.
