Originally Posted by
Wingtips
This is an industry disease. I love when its an RJ guy, like CHQ on a CHQ flight in lets say AA paint, they are on a positive space ticket with a seat in the back, and an AA pilot wants the JS on their full flight, and the positive space CHQ guy takes the jumpseat and bumps the AA guy to get another pax in the back. All the while saying they are doing it to help their company.
Awww you HAD to bring CHQ into this. AA is one of the companies there should be 0 favors for.
Here's one from last year:
We're doing a Frontier flight from PIT-MKE with a full deadheading crew of 3 plus 48 passengers (do the math). The gate handling was just switched over to Delta in PIT, and they have no idea how to use our computer system. The genius deadheading Captain thinks it's a great idea to offer to sit in the jumpseat so they can get all 48 passengers on. We're stuck flying with this guy in the hot seat for the entire flight...lovely.
That's not the best part. He happens to be a Check Airman with the company. Coming through 22,000ft, he says "Now guys I know this isn't a line check, but go ahead and pull out your POHs. There's a couple things I'd like to point out." So we get lectured all the way back to MKE by this guy. Now I know he meant well, but for christ sake put your FO in the jumpseat!