Originally Posted by
ClncClarence
I’ll add to this. DO NOT throw your colleagues under the bus.
I had a flight a while back where the CA overslept and caused a +45 delay. It was an early AM departure from a satellite base. Missed connections, the whole bit. We’re all human. It happens.
I made a PA after I knew what was going on. Told a white lie and said the original guy called in sick and we had a new guy coming in on his day off to get the flight out. Turned an angry mob into a grateful bunch and took a lot of stress off the cabin crew.
Sorry for the drift, but I think we are dunzo with 2025 classes after this week.
A little while back the FO and I did the ole' mistake the departure time as the report time. Didn't realize it until the van ride to the airport when I get a call from Tracking saying the plane is loaded with passengers and the FAs and Gate agents are asking where we were. Oooops! Any way we get to the aircraft and I make an announcement that we arrived late for crew rest legalities for getting in late last night (total lie). Only after did I find out that we were already thrown under the bus and ran over a few times. Tracking called the gate agent back and told her exactly why we were late, she told the FAs then the FAs made an announcement to the passengers on what we did.
The moral of the story is that there may be honor among pilots, but do not expect that same honor between work groups (and I have learned this lesson through numerous other examples).