Originally Posted by
Hilltopper89
I’d be willing to bet you are in the vast minority. The junior guy isn’t asking him to bump anybody. He’s asking a fellow pilot to help him get to work. And I’ve never asked...I just hope they have the sense to do it on their own. Somehow you think this comes down to junior pilots thinking they’re better than everybody else? Jeez. I guess I’m done here then. So how do you feel about senior guys with a PS seat who take the Jumpseat to help the gate agent out when there are guys listed for the JS? Cuz I’ve seen this as well.
Fair enough, I am obviously in the minority. I commuted to ORD for 15 yrs from 95-2010 and never saw pilots displacing someone from their seat in the back to get a junior pilot in the cockpit who otherwise would have had to wait for their backup. I was taught by the old farts who walked the line that seniority was what mattered. JS is by seniority. Senior person got it. In the back seniority matter, the senior EMPLOYEE not pilot got on.
I’ll bow out as it seems today’s commuters are all about ME. God help the next generation.
I’m just glad I moved to driving distance. I’ll let my friends who aren’t pilots know, just drop the vacation pass and see if they senior CA is willing to do the same to get the 2015 hire in the JS.