Originally Posted by Nick Bradshaw

Are you not a Delta Pilot? Do you also include yourself in this proclamation?

Also, I live in base, as all pilots should, and as our company recommends. I will never commute, and if I want to go somewhere, I can afford to buy a ticket. I don't need anyone's "help", and I'll decide if I want to let them ride MY jumpseat.

What I won't be doing is ordering gate agents to remove a paying passenger, in a payload optimized situation, to get an OAL pilot a free ride. I wouldn't recommend that unless you like visits to the CPO on your off day, and unpaid time off work.