Understood, and agreed, however...the rant was omnidirectional, and not directed at anyone in particular.......I wasn't advocating a bigger scene at the gate, but it did occur, exactly as I described several pages ago......Seems like it struck a nerve....

Interesting scenario, easily fixed with some ingenuity.

If you call her out, you'll make a public scene and you'll have one less player on your team. This doesn't include all the other potential fallout mentioned in the previous five pages.

If you offer to take her and the other two FA's to Starbucks you have effectively ended the original problem, increased cohesiveness among the team, maybe slightly changed her mood or outlook for the day and made Delta look like it has the best leadership of any airline.

As you walk to the coffee shop casually mention you saw someone pulling out their iPhone and it looked as if they were going to start filming her. She will then realize you saved her. Without saying one negative thing to her or giving the general public any angle you have effectively taught and shown leadership for the small price of four minutes of flight time.

Captains, be Captains, leadership is not a natural ability and requires effort. It's like a string, gains are made when you pull, not when you push.

That 4th stripe sir is not as powerful as you think it may be, especially outside the aircraft in a terminal. We are simply pilots, not policemen.

Oh, yes it is. It is the Captain's responsibility... Straight from the FOM...

"The captain is in complete command of the aircraft and has authority over all assigned crewmembers from the time they report for duty until termination of the flight. This includes transportation to and from the layover facility."

You are the supervisor for your crew both in and out of the cockpit while on duty.

Add that to the list of reasons not to upgrade. Yuck.

This is also another reason why I do not really "hang out" with crew members in the terminal between flights. I usually sit somewhere far enough away from everyone, but close enough to where I can see the airplane when it pulls up, drink my coffee, and read or whatever. My supervisor gets the paperwork, and I go down the jetway and do the walk around. I guess I need to start asking my supervisor if I am allowed to go sit and read instead of listen to him talk about his new boat that I couldn't care less about.

Interesting, I was unaware that I had a supervisor from duty on until I closed my hotel room door. I will have fun with this from now on......

Haha, so you are one of those folks.

^^^^^Perfect^^^^^^^

I stopped babysitting FAs years ago.

^^^^^^^ This ^^^^^^^

Well, with pilots going one way and FAs going the other in this time of split crews, just hang out at an empty gate until your plane for the next leg shows up. Never really see a crew staying together on domestics anyway.