Originally Posted by CousinEddie

This recent event was either an isolated incident or just another example of cultural differences:

We were going from EWR-SAN, full airplane. A CAL captain comes up for the Jumpseat in uniform. As we chat, we discover that he is EWR 737 based and had picked up part of what was originally an IAH trip. So what he was doing was commuting on his own to SAN, sitting around for 4 or 5 hours in SAN, and then flying the all nighter back to EWR! I think he could tell by the looks on our faces that we thought he was nuts, and he ended up voluntarily taking the one empty seat (middle seat in coach) that was open as they shut the door. Again, I hope this falls under the unusual rather than par for the course. Who would voluntarily pick up a trip and put themselves in that situation? Has Colgan been forgotten already?