I was one of the pilots flying the mainline jet over NY (EWC vortac) heading to ATL at FL340, you were at FL360. You tried everything in the book in order to race in front of us. We offerred to fly at M.78 and tried to maintain that speed. I realize this was slower than what you requested; however, this was the best we could do. What you weren't hearing on the radio, due to us being handed off before you, was that we were flow restricted to 20NM in trail of another aircraft heading into ATL and we were told to maintain first M.78 and then M.76 or less.

I realize you were running late, we heard you whine about it several times to ATC. Although I appreciate you trying to get your, our passengers to their connection/destination on time, have some respect for ATC and other aircraft out there. You came across the radio sounding like you own the jetways. Ironically, we were 20 minutes late as well and hearing you guys trying to manuever out front of us, even suggesting that we slow down so you could pass, was very unprofessional.

I don't know how late you were, but on a 1+30 minute flight, increasing the mach isn't going to save any appreciable amount of time. And if you really want to pass someone, descend to FL270-280. You'll get the best bang in groundspeed -- assuming the winds aren't higher down there. My two cents.

Flame away ...