Originally Posted by
MidLife
I know (first hand) of a Senior AA Captain who got benched for a month because he did not have his hat on.
That senior captain lied, or he was refering to something he heard at another carrier. Back in the old days of $350,000-$400,000/yr senior captains, probable. That generation is long gone.
Takes a serious "incident" to get an old geezer captain benched while its under review.