Originally Posted by
CADR
all these senior papas “Let me listen in on your PA to the passengers so you don’t say the wrong thing”
When in reality this defeats the purpose of the new changes to prevent the issue that just happened. They want the CA focused on the Taxi so, ya know, they don’t turn the wrong way and nearly cause an accident. But man, so many of these CAs are micro managers and don’t trust their FOs with a simple stupid PA… they forget most of the FOs were regional captains and check airman for years….
No doubt for some of AA’s Captains, but you are throwing out a strong, unwarranted implication of what may have transpired in that flight deck based solely on your opinion of how some captains micromanage the flight deck.
There were three working pilots in there - all based at that airport. Somehow all three failed to comprehend the taxi instruction and instead of turning right and crossing 31L, they all allowed the pilot controlling the tiller to cross an entirely different runway.