Originally Posted by
krudawg
That's a cheap shot. The Captain went out of his way trying to find guidance in the UPA or FOM. But as we all know; the search engine completely sucks in the IPAD. He defaulted to the COMPANY seniority because it was pushback time. He did not revert to eenie, meenie, miney, moe, he did his best to find the correct answer. You act as if YOU KNOW the answer - good for you; show me. Cut and paste it in your reply. I may be faced with this situation in the future and I want to make sure the correct decision is made.
I can't believe you are a 747 Captain and don't know this. It has been this way since Moses. Any the numbers have been on the cards for a couple years at least. As someone posted, not exact, but they are correct in relative order.