ZapBrannigan

I’m headed back to work today. With a little luck I’ll be home late on Christmas Day. If you're on the road too, wishing you... (to the tune of 12 days of Christmas)

🎵 Great west Coast flying,
warm weather overnights,
friendly happy crews,
no major write ups,
patient happy pax,
lots of extra fuel,
premium holiday pay and...

Christmas dinner at the layover hotel with your work family free from politics and other divisive conversation... in a pear tree. 🎶

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good flight!

ZapBrannigan

And to my good friend RJs…I still owe you BBQ. May this be the year that everybody switches seats and gets to the domicile where they want to be! (Even if it’s Nashville)

Crockrocket95

Hah, thanks Zap!

If you end up in IND for xmas let me know! Ill be there freezing... wishing I was home in Florida haha.

ZapBrannigan

Looks like Tulsa for me unless there’s a reroute! Enjoy Indy!

Crockrocket95

Looks at current schedule... looks at winter storm.. looks at cancellations..,

yeah, im going with there's gonna be some reroutes...

RJSAviator76

Thank you Cap'n Eeyore! Very much looking forward to it. Glad you'll get to be home on Christmas.

BTW... I edited your picture to make it more appropriate.

Tranquility

I presume as a senior FO you didn’t have to work Christmas much. I’ve found, after upgrading and being junior, that playing Santa on Christmas Day makes me feel better! I’ve made it a tradition if I work Christmas to give a small gift to my co-workers that I work with that day. I buy a bunch of Starbucks gift cards and give them to my FAs and gate agents working my flights. They LOVE it, and it makes me feel better…. Merry Christmas to you, and hope you make it home!

ZapBrannigan

YES! I did just that! I went to Costco and bought enough $5 Starbucks gift cards to give to every FA, ground crew, ops agent, and the commute crew for a three day trip. My wife wrapped them and put a nice Christmas message on the sticker. Bought a gift card for a night at the movies for the FO and his wife. Plan on buying a lot of drinks and a few meals this week if the crew is willing to come down.

Now for the Grinch story…

Since I commute, I put my first two legs of this trip in giveaway. If they went, I would commute to Denver instead and get an extra night at home. No takers so I went to the airport and boarded a flight to my domicile.

I committed the cardinal sin and forgot to delete the giveaway request before commuting. When I landed, the first text I got was those first two legs being cancelled.
I pulled up my board and they were gone. I immediately realized what I had done. (Face palm!)

Found the guy who took them and sent him a text to see if he would be willing to restore them because commuting to DEN in the morning now is going to be pretty tough.
But, at the end of the day it was my fault for forgetting. I learned a rookie commuter lesson.

hoover

He probably did that seeing it would cancel

WHACKMASTER

Baaah. Humbug!