Originally Posted by rightside02

I personally will do what ever is in my power to make a jumpseater able to come with us. Even if it is bending/breaking the rules, At my old airline we would do all kinds of stuff to get guys on and 99 percent of the time it worked, the very few times it didnt atleast the guy trying to jumpseat knew that we did all in our power to make it happen.

I am now a commuter and know what it is like being bumped off a flight esp from a crew that didnt help trying to get him on.

There lies a whole bunch of issues here, Dispatch being dispatch , weather, ballast, gate agents being gate agents, lifer captains that live in base now and have no clue what it is like to commute.

Just last week it took me 14 hours to get from MSP-TPA, I got bumped off of Delta too many times so ventured to Southwest and as always was a amazing experience. At the last minute the Southwest Captian came running out just to make sure there were no remaining jumpseaters and they were even restricted ! And he was still making it happen.

We need to all stick together and remember that even though you may not be commuting anymore and your life of living in base is so amazing , there are however still guys that are desperatly trying to get home for those 2 days only to do it all over again.

For whats it worth, If it was allowed I would throw the ballast back there myself , blood sweat and tears before kicking someone off due to no ground crew.

CRJ, MD11, 727, 737 etc we all need to remember what its like to commute and help our fellow pilots.

Just my two cents....