Originally Posted by
FliFast
At TWA, we took a lot of pride that we were able to treat fellow aviators from guest airlines to a first class seat, a first class dinner and unlimited beverages-alcohol or not. Part of the culture at TWA was that our pilots and the pilots of other airlines were "somebody important". In fact, our FOPM prior to 9/11 made reference that any Airline pilot had access to our cockpits unless they have consume alcoholic beverages inflight. And remember an FAA approved FOPM, GOM,FOP, etc...is just that, approved by the FAA.
It's too bad that airline pilots are no longer treated like somebody important, by airline managments and of recent, by other pilot groups.
Thank you. I knew I was not crazy. I took a TWA L-1011 to London one time. It was a Gulf Air paint job and the TWA crew was super nice. I flew first class. I was young and still had my strips on. Joe corr was also flying that day. Someone rushed up to me and told me, "Get those strips off, the president of the airline is about to board!"
I kept a pretty low profile that flight I can tell you. (But I still get to drink)