Originally Posted by Slats

The tool of the day goes to an XJT captain out of IND. I had listed for the jumpseat, waited for over two hrs for the flight. Once the passengers were all loaded up I started to head on down when all of a sudden at the last minute an XJT guy shows up tells the gate agent not so fast and requests a jumpseat form. The XJT guy looks at me asks who I fly for and then said "well this aircraft is Skywest so that makes this my metal" and hands me a paper showing priority for jumpseaters.
Sure his priority might be higher being that XJT is owned by SkyWest but the way he addressed it was unprofessional in my book. This silver haired XJT captain really went about it the wrong way. Am I wrong?