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Originally Posted by 2StgTurbine
Then you're not very observant. All airlines have their 1%, but the problem with Delta is that our 1% are the same which makes it seem like that personality is what Delta wants. You might not notice because you don't get the opportunity to fly with other Delta captains. When I was a commuter type interviewing for another regional job since my airline was going under, I had to jumpseat home on a Delta aircraft. The captain seemed nice, but when he found out I had to sit in the jumpseat, he wasn't sure if regional airlines were allowed in mainline jumpseats and had to look it up. Then he was nervous about what the passengers would think if a person was in the cockpit without a pilot uniform. Luckily I had a uniform in my bag, but he made me change out of my interview suit and put on my pilot uniform.
So this one time you had an odd duck and now 99% are that way? Get out of here with your generalizations. I mean, just look on this forum and see the different personsilities. Some of you put too much stock into the personality test stuff (which AAL had as well). But yes I did fly with other Captains for the first 7-8 years, sometimes even two Captains at the same time on the 330. I maybe ran into 1 or 2 pilots I'd rather not fly with again and 1 or 2 more that outwardly expressed anything close to what you're saying. Not once have I ever seen any consternation over a JS like you mentioned, then again I don't fly in a certain base south of the mason-dixon lol. Heck, I even had a DAL Captain let me on the JS in blue jeans (unfortunate string of events) when I was a regional puke. He even wrote me a rec for Delta!
Guess what, when I flew at American we had our odd ducks too. You don't think they participate here, you should see their internal pilot forum...it makes chitchat look like childs play. We had multiple pilots walk into our indoc class when the instructors were gone and tell us that we're idots if we didn't leave for UAL or DAL. A FedEx buddy had a Captain clean all of the screens, including the FOs, by taking off his shoes and socks, tucking a cleaning rag between his toes and using his feet to reach across and clean them...while my buddy was in the seat! There was apparently another FDX Captain that would talk to you via a sock puppet... My sim partner at AAL had come from a year at UAL. He once had a Captain loudly berate him in front of a JSer because he didn't have an ALPA pin on...dude wouldn't let it go for the entire flight. He had simply lost it somewhere on the trip. I have great college and military buddies at nearly every airline...we're all the same.
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