I will be posting this in the general forum as well.
The 2 most sensitive subjects in aviation: jumpseating and PFT.
Well Ameriflight sucks at both: PFT pukes get to bump captains from the jumpseat! That's right folks, you heard it right. It happened to me twice in 4 days.
Last friday I tried to go home for the weekend. The plane was full and had room for only one jumpseater. My mistake I didn't plan on a PAYING FO that needed to go my direction for training! Ops. made it clear that she had top priority. Thank God I improvised a backup and made it home only one hour later. They make it clear during ground school that it is PFT FO's responsibility to take themselves to their training assignments and that captains always have precedence on FO's when it comes to the jumpseat, but I guess it works different in the real world... After all, they are PAYING CUSTOMERS!
But wait, it's getting better: tonight I am not going home for the weekend. I am still going home, but this time on a training assignment! I'm supposed to train tomorrow. But too bad for me, another captain has to go that way because he is sitting reserve tomorrow night and there is a PFT FO in the airplane! 2 jumpseating captains going on a work assignment, one jumpseat. The $1,000,000 question: who gets to stay and take the next plane in 4 hours? If you said the FO, you lost. I get to stay and wait!!! That's right folks, PAYING FO's that are not even NEEDED to fly the airplane (we fly everything single pilot) are more important than captains being moved for assignments!!!
I have always disagreed with PFT, but tolerated it. Now, I have ABSOLUTELY no respect for those pukes. And even less for a company that treats its pilots like that. It is just WRONG. Where is this world going? If I end up with one of those, I guaranty they will have a hell of a ride!!!
Buck
The 2 most sensitive subjects in aviation: jumpseating and PFT.
Well Ameriflight sucks at both: PFT pukes get to bump captains from the jumpseat! That's right folks, you heard it right. It happened to me twice in 4 days.
Last friday I tried to go home for the weekend. The plane was full and had room for only one jumpseater. My mistake I didn't plan on a PAYING FO that needed to go my direction for training! Ops. made it clear that she had top priority. Thank God I improvised a backup and made it home only one hour later. They make it clear during ground school that it is PFT FO's responsibility to take themselves to their training assignments and that captains always have precedence on FO's when it comes to the jumpseat, but I guess it works different in the real world... After all, they are PAYING CUSTOMERS!
But wait, it's getting better: tonight I am not going home for the weekend. I am still going home, but this time on a training assignment! I'm supposed to train tomorrow. But too bad for me, another captain has to go that way because he is sitting reserve tomorrow night and there is a PFT FO in the airplane! 2 jumpseating captains going on a work assignment, one jumpseat. The $1,000,000 question: who gets to stay and take the next plane in 4 hours? If you said the FO, you lost. I get to stay and wait!!! That's right folks, PAYING FO's that are not even NEEDED to fly the airplane (we fly everything single pilot) are more important than captains being moved for assignments!!!
I have always disagreed with PFT, but tolerated it. Now, I have ABSOLUTELY no respect for those pukes. And even less for a company that treats its pilots like that. It is just WRONG. Where is this world going? If I end up with one of those, I guaranty they will have a hell of a ride!!!
Buck
