Originally Posted by
cencal83406
Not to toot my own horn but I have done the same. Jumpseating from ATL to IAD on Delta to go hang out with some friends for the weekend, I gave up the jumpseat request to the AirTran FO who was going home.
Good jumpseat karma rocks!
I've done it before multiple times also. It was always when I commuted to the east coast for work and was waiting to go home. Usually just start with idle chit chat, ask how many days off he's got, if he's married with kids, etc
If it sounded like his two days off at home were going to be busier than mine, etc., I'd just let him take it. I can take the next one.
As far as going to work goes, my last company had a very solid commuter clause, so it was easy to give up the seat to the guy having a hard day. Call scheduling, tell them I couldn't get on the first attempt, trying for the second, hang up the phone and wait it out.
Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
I wouldn't consider it tooting your own horn - I think it is great!
I hope rather that your story will be taken as more of an inspiration to HELP out pilots instead of beating each other down. I'm not even a professional pilot and I can't believe what I see on this forum so often. Pilots **attacking** each other - over stuff that they either can't control or just stuff that doesn't even matter (reference recent thread about AIRSPEED betwen two aircraft)! Good job cencal......I hope more act in the same way.
USMCFLYR
I believe in commuting karma, as stated above. But you'd be surprised how dog eat dog some guys can be about the JS. It was worse (way worse) before the majors got rid of their archaic "only as many JS'er as JS's installed" crap.