Originally Posted by
Velocipede
I tried reading them twice, but your spelling and grammar are so poor, its impossible to understand what you're trying to say.
The jumpseat coordinator doesn't control the jumpseat...the CAPTAIN does. The job of the jumpseat coordinator is to maximize the jumpseat opportunities for the individual MEC pilot group. He doesn't tell me who I can allow the privilege of jumpseating. As far as I'm concerned, Union pilots shouldn't even be asking B6, VX or gojets "pilots" for jumpseats.
Why? If you ask them for the favor, then you are morally obligated to reciprocate. I don't ask them for anything and I don't give them anything.
If they ask me for a jumpseat, my response is "Jumpseating is a privilege we acquired in our Union contract. I don't extend Union privileges to non-Union pilots." I usually don't add, "so pound sand" unless they get argumentative.
You know what, you're right. What was I thinking? You have every right to deny a guy a jumpseat for whatever reason you can think of. Good job Captain! Way to raise the bar and label yourself a true professional. That will teach all those guys at JB. Especially the ones that took a furlough from a legacy a few years ago and took a job there because they were one of the only games in town.
I'm gonna take a guess here, you don't commute do you? If so, you probably never had to commute off line?
Every airline has their 10%, and I think it's clear where you are on that 90/10 line.