Can we please lose the hats now at Citrus?

[jhill]

I saw a Southwest pilot wearing a hat last week. I didn't think they had them.

The only guys that wear them here are check pilots and check pilot wanna bees. And a few bald/gay (not in an attractive way) guys. You know you're in for a long trip when the guy shows up in his hat and polyester coat.

 

[CatfishVT9]

But......your avatar......has a hat.

Are you a bald, gay Check Airman?

 

[njcapt]

Originally Posted by Rez O. Lewshun

What are you willing to give up in negotiation leverage not to wear the hat?

This makes no sense....

What part of it doesn't make sense? The minute that the company realizes that the pilot group wants to ditch a portion of the uniform dictated in the GOM it becomes a negotiating point. We got rid of hats at ATA during the concessionary negotiations forced on us by the bankruptcy process.

Losing the hat cost us 88 million dollars.

Given the black hearted F sticks running AirTran, losing the hat could cost the 12 hour max duty day, 10 to 15% additional copay on health insurance or sweet reserve language that allows guys on reserve to credit over 100 hours without working on their (miniscule) days off. The AirTran pilots really need to get their priorities straight before negotiations or they are going to get raped just like in the last two TA's.

 

[easydoesit]

PNCL128 I'm sure you wore your hat very proudly over there at Peaknuckle airlines. Are you the "Joe Pilot" type I hate to fly with? Face it people, we are just highly paid bus drivers in the sky. If you think you are any more than that, you are livin in the past. These airplanes fly themselves. Do you see bus drivers wearing dorky military hats?

Come on...I know we all want to feel important. Does a hat have to do it for you?

 

[PCL_128]

PNCL128 I'm sure you wore your hat very proudly over there at Peaknuckle airlines.

Yep.

Face it people, we are just highly paid bus drivers in the sky. If you think you are any more than that, you are livin in the past. These airplanes fly themselves.

Do you really view yourself and your profession so poorly? Pretty sad.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

So...when the uniform is worn with a hat I look like a pilot but without the hat I look like an aircraft cleaner?

No, without the hat you look like a stewardess.

And if you are a guy then there is a 97% chance your not in the 3% Klub....

Hat= guy looks like a straight pilot
No Hat= guy looks like a San Fran Fannie Flamer FA (aka dude looks like a lady)

Not that there is anything wrong with that...not wearing the hat....

 

[Spidey]

Irrelevant.

Wrong, rookie.

 

[Lear70]

Given the black hearted F sticks running AirTran,,,

ROFLMFAO!!!

I completely missed everything you said after that until I went back and read it again.

I don't care WHO you are... THAT'S funny!

Thanks for the laugh... :beer:

 

[FlyFastLiveSlow]

Wrong, rookie.

OK, drunken "genius" who doesn't use punctuation. What does having worn the uniform in the USAF have anything to do with determining my opinion on whether or not brown leather jackets look stupid at an airline?? NOTHING.

 

[flyn96]

The only guys that wear them here are check pilots and check pilot wanna bees. And a few bald/gay (not in an attractive way) guys. You know you're in for a long trip when the guy shows up in his hat and polyester coat.

Soooo, the guy with a hat is gay, but the guy who cares so much about his hair gel and frosty tips that he doesn't want to wear a hat isn't gay???? ........You're a ******************************!!!

 

[OrphicSeth]

Face it people, we are just highly paid bus drivers in the sky. If you think you are any more than that, you are livin in the past. These airplanes fly themselves.

My airplane doesn't fly itself.

Too bad you think this way. Looks like you picked the wrong profession. You should go drive actual buses instead, that way I won't have to listen to you give management reasons to pay us even less than they already are. Stay away from my negotiating table.

Oh, and I wear my hat. I do it for myself, for my passengers, for my profession, for the giants of the past on whose shoulders I stand.

...And if I'm a toolbag for it, no one has ever told me to my face.

 

[Spidey]

OK, drunken "genius" who doesn't use punctuation. What does having worn the uniform in the USAF have anything to do with determining my opinion on whether or not brown leather jackets look stupid at an airline?? NOTHING.

This has gotten boring. The coat looks fine. We'll disagree. You continue your job as the limp-wristed fashion police. Having spent your flying career in ops waiting for the next available Cessna or Piper, you wouldn't understand much about aviation history. And .78 is NOT flying fast, well probably for rookies like you. Study hard and go have a glass of milk. See ya soon. And may God bless you!

 

[Spidey]

My airplane doesn't fly itself.

Too bad you think this way. Looks like you picked the wrong profession. You should go drive actual buses instead, that way I won't have to listen to you give management reasons to pay us even less than they already are. Stay away from my negotiating table.

Oh, and I wear my hat. I do it for myself, for my passengers, for my profession, for the giants of the past on whose shoulders I stand.

...And if I'm a toolbag for it, no one has ever told me to my face.

Ditto-good post!

 

[twepilot]

agreed with above..

RV

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

My airplane doesn't fly itself.

Too bad you think this way. Looks like you picked the wrong profession. You should go drive actual buses instead, that way I won't have to listen to you give management reasons to pay us even less than they already are. Stay away from my negotiating table.

Oh, and I wear my hat. I do it for myself, for my passengers, for my profession, for the giants of the past on whose shoulders I stand.

...And if I'm a toolbag for it, no one has ever told me to my face.

Nice....

The new challenge today is not flying the jet but working well with others in a team environment.... jets crash lately because of humans not failed engines...