Originally Posted by
Packrat
Wow, ego much?
You obviously don't have any military training. In the Navy (and every other branch of the U.S. Armed Forces) you're taught that the Officers ALWAYS make sure the troops are taken care of BEFORE they look out for themselves.
Your F/As are your troops. As a Captain, I can see letting your F/O go on a scheduled van, but I'll be damned if I'd leave the F/As behind. Besides, every airline I ever worked for had the policy that if the van was more than 30 minutes late, taxis were authorized.
I've put the whole crew in taxis and paid for both. That's what leadership is all about. You should try it sometime.
We have different FAs literally every leg. Often some of them are based in the overnight city and some are going to the hotel. 9 out of 10 times we don’t even stay at the same hotel. I don’t need to get everyone’s story when we block in. We are a Crew when on the flight. At my airline the pilots are free to leave once the parking checklist is complete unless the plane needs to be shutdown. At that point I don’t have any obligation to 5-7 FAs that are probably all on different pairings.
And yes after 30min outside transportation is approved (pilots). Just last week after being held up with mx we arrived at the pick up area after the FAs. I asked if we stayed at the same hotel. They said yes and we just missed the van. I said I didn’t want to wait another 30min and was getting an uber Black. I asked if they wanted to join and they said yes. We proceeded to the ride share pickup area which was not near the hotel vans and waited for our driver. We arrived at the hotel the same time as we would have waiting for the next van.