Story time?

 

Not the strongest CA I’ve ever seen, but she’s a nice person. I admit to using the same denigrating term when I first worked there....but then I actually met her. I will say the same for 3 Cups. THAT dude is funny!

 

3 Cups wasn't a bad guy once you figured him out. I'd take him over a few of the other characters we had over the years. It was always entertaining to hear him commandeer the P2P calls for what felt like an eternity, yammering on about something trivial. Good times.

 

3 Cups LOL.

Strange but a cool cat. He carried a 100ft outdoor extension cord so he could plug into a jetway outlet to run his laptop on long outstation sits.

Or the time he freaked and chewed out the hotel van driver because he wasn't taking the usual route to the hotel.

 

Ol 3 cups! The man, the legend. He's definitely got his own way of moving through the world. Strange cat but not a bad guy.

One of the funniest conversations I ever only got to hear one side of happened back when the "Mexican Airforce" used to take over Terminal E every morning. 3 Cups and I had just come in from Mexico and parked on a hard stand. Getting into the building, the agent takes the paperwork and says "oh ops just called, they need you to repo the plane to B when you get done with customs". I didn't care, not unusual and we had the usual 4 hour sit anyway. Just means now I'm getting breakfast at Panchitos instead of Papasitos and get a little bonus repo pay. But this was NOT part of 3 Cups' plan! What ensues is an epic round Robin phone call between hub coordinators, ops managers, dispatchers and just about anyone he could think of. After about 40 minutes of typical 3 Cups' snarling, condescending style of arguing and accusations against everyone of incompetence, stupidity and laziness, we are back in the seat for the repo and he's whining about them wasting his cell phone minutes. Can't make it up.

Is he still at XJT or where did he end up?

 

Still here and is the IAH CA rep 😁

 

Flaps 8 sounds vaguely familiar.....

 

it’s 9. The 145 doesn’t have a Flaps 8 setting.

 

yeah no sh$t. I mean the story behind “flaps 8”. I feel like I remember a flaps 8 inside joke. Just like the “power vested in me by ExpressJet and the FAA”

 

"invested" yes his rant was incorrect when he said it. Best story ever. I love that the CA told him that he was going to have him hung for mutiny by the FA.