The last few trips I've done, the Captains were real good about checking on the catering. It hasn't been an issue yet. My issue was with the captains who read the notice in CCS that flights are not to be delayed for addressing catering issues. They take it at face value that the company is being 100% accurate with regards to their contractual obligations.

As far as the one hour prior thing of meeting in Ops. I was told that made it into the FOM because a mgt pilot flew a line trip and couldn't figure out why he was all alone in the FPA at show time. I don't have much time at either carrier, but the only time I was critiqued on the L-UAL side for not waiting around OPs for the Captain...came from a new Captain who was coming off a widebody. That was the norm for the larger planes to brief everything to death and disect every little notam. It was not the norm on the NB fleet. If the weather was bad...who cares...you were still going. Put on more gas.

If they want us to check in at the FPA, thats fine. But in the last 2 months as a lineholder, I've never, ever flown with the same Captain for an entire trip. I've normally seen 2-3 and even as many as 4 different guys on a 4 day trip. I'm starting to think its me??