Originally Posted by
Andy
That's a cool story ... the husband is at fault. Several swiss cheese holes in that excuse, but I'm not going to go into why that excuse is problematic.
Don't care.
I don't know the pilot's name, don't care. I will, however, screen every United pilot who wants to ride my jumpseat who fits her profile. And I'm a United pilot.
I've commuted most of my career and given jumpseaters a ride for more than 20 years. I have never heard of anything remotely close to this ever happening before. Mentor this? Not possible to mentor such things that are so common sense. Do I also need to tell newhires to change their underwear daily? Where does the common sense mentoring end? This can't be fixed with mentoring so all you 'mentor mores' stop. You're being almost as stupid (not quite as stupid, by a nose) as the person who caused this.
Just throwing this out there, but maybe (just maybe), the JS’er did this purely to get publicity and to eventually make a lawsuit out of it? Maybe she planned for the chaos that this news is causing?
Or maybe something else happened between the crew and the JS’er during the flight. Maybe a personality conflict or a comment was made in the flight deck thy at offender her? It could be a conversation the SWA guys thought was funny or controversial but to her, maybe have been offensive. Then she just used the safety argument as her way to get at them.