Originally Posted by
WHACKMASTER
More specifically to grab a muffin on our near-international turns before we had the “gourmet” meals.
So the implication was just to “grab a muffin” at the hotel in the morning to carry you through your 8-12 hour duty day since these a$$h*les tried to forbid you from getting off the airplane at the international station to grab some real sustenance.
Mickey Mouse, TX regional airline. Nothing more.
Yep, that’s right. He became known as the “Muffin Man.”
It was at about the same time as our CEO (GK) said we should all be paid like plumbers. Hence, the many references within our pilot group to us being merely plumbers.