Originally Posted by
KodiakRS
This whole thing is probably a result of having the following conversation a hundred times
Person: "You're an airline pilot? Who do you fly for"
Pilot: "I fly for envoy Airlines."
Person: "I've never heard of them."
Pilot: "We used to be called American Eagle."
Person: "Like the t-shirt company?"
Pilot: "No, an airline. Used to be called American Eagle but during the American Airlines merger with US Airways a few years ago they decided to use the American Eagle brand name with other carriers so they renamed us envoy to avoid confusion. We're a wholly owned subsidiary of American Airlines that flies smaller airplanes but our customer facing operations are designed to be consistent with American so most people think they're on American when they're really flying on us blah blah codeshare blah blah regional blah blah scope blah blah...
Person (not getting it): "So you fly for American Airlines?"
Pilot: *exasperated sigh* "Yeah sure, why not."
We understand about speaking to the general public, but it's different than speaking to another pilot. Pilots know the difference.
And literally telling the CA that you're sitting in the back is a big no-no. I hope the young man who did this reads this thread and learns from it, and doesn't have to be called in to ops and reprimanded.
Bolded part made me laugh though. Cheers.