Originally Posted by
IrishTiger
Awesome story sir! I enjoyed reading that. Just the fact that he rode with you a couple of months later made it all worth it! I was very glad to see the FO and IRO step up and say something. Good job on their part.
Was their any other reason he was wanting to leave you? He just didn't want you in the jumpseat that long? Why the heck wouldn't he have just put you in first? Sounds like he was more of a tallywhacker than anything else.
Yeah, it was poetic. And no, he just told me he couldn't put me in First, and he just didn't want "an RJ guy" bothering him in the cockpit for that long (9 hours'ish). No other reason to deny me. He may have just been a grumpy old man, or he may have had a legit reason to not want to put me in First. Either way, I just wanted to get a ride home to get back to work (after having been bumped off of CAL flights and a US Airways flights by on-line jumpseaters)... But, my point was just that there are some great people at AA (gate agents, F/As, and pilots) that busted their humps to help me get on and get back to work. One guy was an ass, but the rest made it work... Since then I've never had anything but good experiences when jumping on AA (mainline -- the connection flights are a different story...).