When I was on that fleet, I always wondered, but never asked why. It's the only fleet at DL that does it.... there's got to be some background for it.

Ive noticed this at other carriers too, WN comes to mind. I e always wondered the same thing. Pretty sure the 737 sits too tall to see the top of the wing from the ground so why light it up???

Its not about seeing the wing. Its only to check the wing light bulb.
Not sure how it became part of the walk-around routine but that's why you see it turned on at the gate all the time. The FO flips on the wing and wheel well lights when he walks into the cockpit and they stay on until he or the captain gets the walk around done.

Just go under company business (not crew travel and book it yourself... no skeds call needed... that's for domestic... for int'l, do the same, but then call skeds with your locator number and have them move you to delta one... I do these all the time).

The answer is, because we always done it this way! Or this is how we did it in the (insert branch of the military )

Not on my walk-around....I'm lucky to remember those lights half the time:)

Don't lose sight here Mike. This was originally about the OE carve out. With recovery rights, as we used to have, you could be assigned trips that were not completely in the footprint of your original trip, hence commuting disaster.

That is what we are talking about, some sort of protection from that. We commuters understand that you do not commute and therefore you should not have to waste negotiating capital for what you are voicing concerns with, PS to work. We do fine as it is, but when you do everything right and are responsible the company, with regards to OE assignments, should help us out. Don't make this into a commuter bashing "it is a choice" issue.

Mike,

First off unless you uprooted your family and moved to the Cracker Kremlin, aka Atlanta, then there is no guarantee that you won't become a commuter in your career. We had bases in BOS, ORD, MSY, DFW, MCO, PDX, MIA, MEM and CVG was a lot bigger.

So when people say commuting is a choice I say that it is kind of a choice. Secondly, as has been pointed out, this is not about PS to work during every rotation. It is PS to work when you were assigned a trip that you planned on flying and they changed the report day. This can cause some headaches as you have now missed out on reserving a jumpseat because of the late notice.

Yup, and even if they don't close your base, they could pull your equipment out and put it somewhere else, just ask the MSP A330 guys how they like commuting to ATL now.

If the company changes your trip, or the sign in or return time, THEY should be responsible for getting you to/from that trip, or they could just release you and give it to a reserve.

Random question. Can new hires in the pool register for chitchat? Or only after we get a class and seniority number?
Thanks