Originally Posted by crewdawg

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.