Originally Posted by
scambo1
I think I was on the 764 when they changed it to the 765. I never paid attention to why they changed it. Nothing markedly changed in the bid pack that I recall. But, your explanation sounds reasonable.
I think most folks type the plane numbers here the way you bid them in the AE page of dbms. Except, in mixed company, it was considered gentlemanly if you were domestic 75/76 to say you were on the 75 and if you were int'l to say you were on the -er. If you were domestic and said you were on the 75/76 you were showing your ego and enough of doing that would get you nominated for totd. It's also harder to say 7576 and harder to hear it that way.
Good stuff!
I never really figured out a good way to refer to flying the domestic 767, haha. My category was the "767" by title... butIi referred to it pretty much every way you described- really whatever rolled of my tongue first. To those in the airline I always said 767 domestic since they knew what I meant. That's what the category is.
To those outside of the airline I would typically say 757 and 767 domestic and close international to mitigate the typical string of questions! Although that highly depended on how much breath I wanted to spend on them... sometimes it was just "757" ... sometimes 767 if that's what came to mind first. I prefer to spend my brain cells on underboob and more 747's.
... I mean, 744's!