Originally Posted by
PeopleMover90
Is it a new thing (saw it some posts below) with select captain widget tools in ATL giving a briefing at the gate podium? I was huffing my way to make a commute flight in B and past a flight headed for Houston hobby of all places. An -88. Captain introduced himself and gave an entire geographic overview of the longggggg flight to Houston and all about the -88. Thank goodness I got to keep running, my tool-o-meter almost broke.
I almost feel if it was a 747 headed overseas then that captain can do what the frick he wants. Awesome. But an -88 to Houston? Cool story bro.
DL mgmt want us to engage the customers more. They encourage PAs from the gatehouse if the flight is going to be delayed. Sometimes eager beavers take that a bit farther.
From personal experience, that does not correlate to a toolbag in the cockpit. In fact, on my last trip, they went up to the gatehouse again when the delay extended to make sure there weren't other pax/nonrevs/jumpseaters had walked up and wanted a ride. We should be very careful on our tool judgements.