Originally Posted by
Klondike Bear
It’s a place the international pilots go to count their money so the domestic swine won’t see them. They call it flight planning to scare the domestic guys away.
It's good to let them think they're always making more than the domestic swine, ingornace in bliss
. FWIW, even when I was international, I never understood why we met in ops 1.5 hours prior, just to walk up to the gate, get our preflight done then sit around for 50 minutes. After a while, I started to understand why a few of the local guys were always "running a bit late," and just met us at the gate lol.