Originally Posted by
Boomer
How would FAs go out of their way for a DH pilot? Plenty of ways. Giving us better seats, offering free headphones, making sure my Coke (Pepsi lately) never runs out, handing me extra Eat-Up boxes, checking if I need anything every time they walk through the cabin, keeping an overhead bin empty for our bags knowing our inbound flight is late and there will be two pilots boarding last-minute… the kind of stuff that no flight attendant is required to do, but they still went out of their way to treat two DH pilots like part of the team.
They don't do any of that anymore, 70% of the time I have to beg like a peasant for a water. So you can stop living in your 2004 fantasy land. Neeleman is gone and the dream is dead.
For you NK'ers:
David Neeleman used to write some of these old timer pilots personal love letters like a desperate girlfriend when they went above and beyond. It really got in their heads and validated their forward leaner tendencies. They haven't been the same since. The same pilots usually have a fetish of flying with the dome light on. It's like a religion.
The combined airline is going to be an incredible circus.