Originally Posted by
sailingfun
The Captain assigns seat positions and landings. There are no relief lines.
At UA my seniority assigns me what seat I sit in, and which rest break I can expect, for each trip I show up for. If I can’t hold the flying seat, I don’t get it, and I don’t beg the other FO for the landing. If I have to do landing class, that’s on me. I can always bid down and do a LHR trip to get landings.
But that’s not the point of this thread. I hope we get some breakdown of what happened here through the training department. What thought process happened in that cockpit so I can learn from it, and hopefully not make the same decisions before just calling a go around and trying again. Good job saving the day, but ooohhh boy was that hard to watch.