In eCrew/iCrew go to "NRSA Travel" menu selection along top of screen and select "Jumpseat/Deadhead". Last option on that menu is "Positive Space Deadhead for Backend Deviations". That's the one you want.

I know of 4 times it happened at Northwest, between 2002 and now. I don't know that it matters if it was an accident. A pilot with a valid ID carrying a weapon through security even by accident represents in the best-case, a "trusted agent" (as we contend) who doesn't know *** he's doing, and where his weapon is.

Bad, Bad, Bad.

I'm not arguing whether or not real airline pilots try to use weapons in the cockpit, I'm merely pointing out we might not be the "trusted agents" we claim to be when it comes to going through security in our studly uniforms, flashing our valid ID's.

Buzz, this is a IT issue that they are working on. Go read last week's trim tab (two weeks ago) it explains the reason in there.

All very valid points, and what do you think the results would be if a weapon were used in flight by one of us? What do you think the ramifications would be? I am guessing a lot worse.

I hate going thought the routine as much as the next guy, the difference is that I can understand that there are reasons to do what they do, and we as pilot do not have a "need to know" in regard to these reasons.

Really? As a pilot, I need to know just about everything.

I think you're right.

The screening process needs to be 100% successful. Airline pilots are not 100% trustworthy to know what we're doing when it comes to preventing weapons from getting through security. That's a painful fact to acknowledge.

We've had an airline pilot negligently discharge his authorized weapon in the cockpit. [public record] We've had pilots go through "crew gates" with weapons. [public record] We've had pilots try to fly drunk, with weapons. [public record]

As a result, I'm not trusted when I approach airport screening checkpoints. That makes me mad. Not at the schlubs groping my sweetbreads behind the curtain when I refuse the bodyscan, but at the jerks who screwed it up so that we can't be trusted. Pogo had it right...

Then that is a local directive. At most airports they DO NOT have to be screened prior to shift. Just come on down to MCO to see it.

All I know is, I'm bringing Courvoisier the next time I pass through security.

Has RA addressed the customer service failures and recent bad ratings DAL has received in the press?

Aircraft seating realignments, performance data after push, return of the Redcoats ... all initiatives to improve customers' experiences on Delta. We're always trying to improve.