There are only two crew schedulers who use words like Please and Thank You. When those two call me, I am far more willing to help them out.... and they are willing to work with me. But I DO NOT request anything that would buddy ****** my fellow pilots. And I DO NOT believe I am sucking up to them: they are asking a favor and trading me something in return.

I am not a company man, but I understand when the weather or mx throws crews to the four winds, I may have to work on my day off. Recently, I was ASKED (by one of the two) to be junior manned even though there was a man junior to me available. The flight was a repo of a plane out of heavy check with a green captain going from and to airports he was unfamiliar with. He was to be paired with an FO just off of IOE. When ASKED if I would do the flight, I accepted because I felt the circumstances REQUIRED an experienced FO. (No disrespect to the guy I replaced: I just know I would be much better in an emergency now, than I was right off IOE.) I didn't do it to curry favors, nor did I do it for the company: I did it for the captain and, to a lessor degree, for the FO I was replacing.

I am NOT a company man. Nor am I a pilot man. I am just a guy who wants to see flights completed in a Safe, Legal, and Prudent manor. I DON'T want or expect any special treatment. I just want to be paid for my work, and if I go above and beyond a "thank you" would be nice.


((I am not suggesting the poster was advocating sucking up. I am just infuriated when people who have Dot on thier speed dial get anything they want no matter how it sc*ws other pilots.))