Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
When I was brand new at DL, I commuted from DTW-LGA.
I had a 0800 or so report the next morning, and was grabbing a 1800ish flight to LGA on NW to make sure I gave myself 2 flights for commuting.
As luck would have it, I was in line for the jumpseat in front of an AA guy. I was 26 at the time, so pretty dang young looking for a DL pilot. I notice the AA guy in line behind me, turn around, smile and greet him.
His response to me saying hi: "What regional do you work for? I have to go to LGW tonight. I really need to get to NYC."
I look down at his badge, look back up at him... "I work for the regional that flies to more places in europe than your carrier does" and turned back around.
He pleads a couple more times with london and asking me where I'm going...(full flight and a 757, so one jumpseat), needless to say he was going to need to jump on the next flight after showing that attitude.
Ironically, I'm pretty sure he was the AA guy I had fudged the numbers to get on the jumpseat in the CRJ about a year earlier.
So he thought (and legitimately so, come on, you were 26) that you were a RJ FO, and you decided to respond like that? If that's the story, I'd have to say the tool here wasn't the AA pilot.