Originally Posted by
NERD
Or just maybe he was trying to keep you out of trouble. City of Atlanta has past an ordinance that anyone on the ramp will have a safety vest on and those not in compliance will get a summons(whatever that means) if airport police see you without. Oddly enough, the HVC's that get run between gates in the Porches don't require them, nor do crews being run in the crew vans when running late. PS we don't like it either.
I appreciate that you want to give your fellow Delta coworker the benefit of the doubt. But I’ll ask this, how would the average ATL DAL pilot react if that regional FO, when non refund, went up and told the Delta CA that the FO was not complying with a ramp requirement?
It is kind of known that DAL pilots feel they have super seniority on any regional Delta plane in and out of ATL. This kind of seems like another example of that.
In the end, just shut up and board the plane. It really is that simple.