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Old 07-22-2012 | 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
The CA will be some old lifer who slam-clicks and spends the entire overnight surfing deviant porn. Or if he's young, he'll have a Regional-Captain-God-Complex to the point where you just want to get the hell away from the tool as soon as possible. He'll go out with you, but you have to walk behind him and let him direct all aspects of the social outing (but he might actually buy you a beer...the Captain-God-Complex seems to mandate this).

Usually the FA is fat, ghetto, old, and/or very grouchy. At least two of those three. The best of the lot are going to be 55-65 year olds who divorced a doctor, took him for all they were worth, and will continually and subtlety remind you of their mercedes, townhouse dowtown, condo at Aspen, etc, etc.

If you're lucky the FA will be a normal gay male who you can go drinking with. Seriously. If you're not wearing a wedding ring, just b sure to casually mention your live-in girlfriend so there's no misconceptions.

Only exception is SKW. There are some FA's (and female pilots) who are suitable companions for a night out, but mostly in the west.

Best thing to do with your regional overnights is work out and enroll in a online masters degree (or bachelors if you don't have that).

Once you get to a major airline, the CA will be so old that you'll have nothing in common (unless you're both ex-fighter pilots) and he'll just bore you talking about his Porsche, BMW, condo in Aspen, live-in hanger at the airpark, Malibu Meridian, three ex-wives, grandkids, etc.
And don't forget that the f/a WILL embarrass you. Last week our male f/a decided that going out for dinner wearing a dirty white wife beater would be acceptable. Breath that can knock out Mike Tyson. Sometimes your Captain or F/O are being slam clickers cause the alternative is embarrassing. I think honestly people do this job because they need the money. And it's what they have invested a lot of time and money into. Many are too proud to say it sucks and they made a bad decision, so they deny the awful lifestyle.
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