Originally Posted by
Shrek
Still not good enough going forward. At UAL we had a dinner paid for by the company at a Brazilian Steakhouse. Chief Pilot was there to hand out your wings with a professional photographer to capture the moment for safekeeping.
Before my time at UAL they would PS your wife out to the dinner in DEN for the event. I live in DEN so they paid for my wife's dinner as well and she also presented me with my set of wings.
What a shell of its former self CAL became regarding this. Really a shame. Believe it or not, there was no Captain ceremony either. Again during a break some staff guy came in and said so and so other more important staff guy couldn't be here so I will give you your wings and proceeded to sheepishly walk around the room to hand them out. A lifelong dream to became a Captain at a major airline realized. Somehow I thought the ceremony would be classy. It's like getting to Heaven and finding dust balls under the furniture and the angels are flossing their teeth in public. If the quality of the winging ceremony was part of ALPA merger policy they wouldn't have to have had hearings. See, I got the thread back on topic.