AA dude busted my buddies chops!

[ILUVURBANMYERS]

Hey my best friend and fellow SWA Captain rents a house in Hawaii every June for two weeks. He buys his wife and kids a ticket on AA and he jumpseats over. In LAX he enters the cockpit to ask permission to ride from the Captain. “Hi I am Joe SWA dude looking for a ride to Hawaii.” F/O takes a quick glace over his shoulder and says “They let vermin in the cockpit now” The Captain just laughs and says to the A or lead F/A if there was a seat in the back for the SWA guy. She replies that yea I do and after cruise starts busting his balls about the how greedy we are, how we are taking food from her kids mouths etc.. Then one by one the other F/A’s came by with some smart as@ crack over the 5 hour flight from LAX. Needless to say he declined any food or drink.

Now I know people are pissed but I think this crew was way out of line. Any of us as line pilots have zero to do with what our management says or does nor do they ask our thoughts on anything. I am sure it was an isolated incident. Thoughts?

ILUVURBANMYERS.

 

[SWA tech]

What a bunch of loser's the AA people that's real professional

 

[FlyBarneyJets]

I JS'ed out of DFW a week and a half ago on AA and was treated like gold. I dunno, but I think this is a) flame bait, or b) an unfortunate case of "wrong place at the wrong time."

 

[chase]

Have friend contact SWA's Professional Standards and/or Jumpseat Commitee Chairman. If the post is flamebait then it ends there.....if it is real then this route has a far higher chance of having an impact vs. merely venting....I too have been treated like a king on AA lately....their service in my mind has really turned around, particularly among flight crews at all levels....

 

[Falcon Jet 1]

Treated like a king also on AA and Im a SWA scumbag as well.

 

[njcapt]

I smell flame bait. Two posts and registered in June 2005. I've only had warm receptions jumping on AA in the past three or four years.

Don't be a tool.

 

[capt. megadeth]

Have friend contact SWA's Professional Standards and/or Jumpseat Commitee Chairman.

If this is true, the FO was out of line but come on...

Waaaaaa, let's go tell on everyone......give me a break.

 

[BD King]

Peanuts. DID YOU BRING PEANUTS? No peanuts. No seat.............As a side note, until a couple of months ago, I had never ridden SWA. Management of every airline should be required to fly SWA, so that they could see how it is supposed to be done. I know that I may get flamed for that statement, and understand that I understand the frustrations of some of the other crews, but the whole atmosphere was totally different. Light and friendly should describe it, and it carries over to the passengers, and I will assume that it all started with management.


www.bdkingpress.com

 

[aa73]

If it's true, call your j/s comittee and let them know. No place for that at any airline, period.

I have been treated very well by SWA when I j/seated on them, and I reciprocate in kind, always. We are all in this together!

 

[capt. megadeth]

If it's true, call your j/s comittee and let them know. No place for that at any airline, period.

I have been treated very well by SWA when I j/seated on them, and I reciprocate in kind, always. We are all in this together!

True but Oh my God, let's go be little babies and tell on people. You guys are a bunch of babies.

 

[PHXFLYR]

Jumpseated on everyone except Alaska and Midwest Express. Even rode the mail
with the Ryan folks when they still had the contract.Never been treated poorly by anyone in over 7 years of doing my cross country commute. Sounds like flame bait.


PHXFLYR

 

[PSL]

I have to agree with my SWA brethern who have had positive experiences on AA.

In 17 years of 121 jumpseating I have never been treated poorly by AA.

To get everyone on a crew to be consistent jackazzes is as likely as I am to get my children to WANT to do their homework over watching American Idol.

 

[On Your Six]

It's pretty simple: AA people are getting very insecure for good reason... The dinosaur is limping along and revoking the Wright Amendment won't help matters. I say take it with a grain of salt and be professional if possible...

 

[Chronic Jetlag]

It's a shame...there's a bad apple in every bunch. I've only had one bad experience jumpseating. The captain told me " ...your company can afford to buy you a ticket, get your bag out of my cockpit" I was treated better before I started flying for a LCC. As a former ALPA member I was ashamed by the way that captain behaved.
We should not use the jumpseat as our own political platform.

 

[MercuryPilot]

I've jumpseated on AA several times and have always been treated extremely well.-Even put me in First Class a few times when they had room. Thanks American!

MP

 

[BigMotorToter]

SNB...

S- (4 letters). The healing process one gets from having a cut. Or when someone try's to better him/herself at the expense of others.

N- (4 letters). The politcal party that controlled Germany in the late 1930's to mid 1940's. Also responsible for the attempted elimination of a group of people that they deemed inferior to themselves.

B- (7 letters). An illegitimate child or a person lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.

Put the three words together and it describes your friendly neighborhood native AA pilot.

 

[AA717driver]

AA has its 10%, ok, maybe 20% but the one thing you can't afford to screw around with is the jumpseat.

Anytime something like this happens, it's imperative you call your J/S coodinator and get the problem resolved. A lot of the time it's a comment that is taken wrong or just bad judgement on the part of the one who said it. If some punk FO has the balls to make a comment like that (and the CA doesn't have the balls to tell them to STFU), he or she deserves to get whacked by the union. It's stupid and unprofessional.

Things like this if left unresolved can turn into a range war.

TC
APA Jumpseat/non-rev committee
'02-'04

 

[aa73]

SNB...

S- (4 letters). The healing process one gets from having a cut. Or when someone try's to better him/herself at the expense of others.

N- (4 letters). The politcal party that controlled Germany in the late 1930's to mid 1940's. Also responsible for the attempted elimination of a group of people that they deemed inferior to themselves.

B- (7 letters). An illegitimate child or a person lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.

Put the three words together and it describes your friendly neighborhood native AA pilot.

Classy, MotorToter. How old are we?

I'll let that slide, and gladly put you in First if you ever j/s with me. Isn't that what this thread is about?

Regards,
Your friendly neighborhood NAAtive who recognizes that everyone has a bad day now and then

 

[FreightGod]

SNB...

S- (4 letters). The healing process one gets from having a cut. Or when someone try's to better him/herself at the expense of others.

N- (4 letters). The politcal party that controlled Germany in the late 1930's to mid 1940's. Also responsible for the attempted elimination of a group of people that they deemed inferior to themselves.

B- (7 letters). An illegitimate child or a person lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.

Put the three words together and it describes your friendly neighborhood native AA pilot.

What a crock of sh!t.

Are you by any chance ex-TWA and bitter becuase you choose the wrong career path?

Or just an arsehole in general?

 

[capt. megadeth]

Classy, MotorToter. How old are we?

Obviously we are not that mature since everyone's answer to this is to go cry to the j/s committee. Why can't you just think "what an a$$" and let it be?