Tool of the day
09-24-2015, 02:46 AM
#6912
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2012
Posts: 239
To the crew (pilots & FA's) who are sitting in the lobby at the hotel talking while the bus to the airport is filling up and coincidently now full only to come outside and get upset that there's no room for them. Then stand there and claim that they are crew members and are going to be late for their flight because of this and try to push there way on to the bus.
09-24-2015, 06:39 AM
#6914
New Hire
Joined APC: May 2013
Position: F-16 pilot
Posts: 6
Originally Posted by Keizer Soze
Uniform policy is exactly that, policy. For whatever reason our respective companies have decided on a particular uniform. The general public may not know what that policy is, but they can certainly look at their flight crew and be able to discern that one or more of them is not following that policy when they notice that the crew do not look "uniform".
U-NI-FORM - the distinctive clothing worn by members of the same organization or body or by children attending certain schools - or - not changing in form or character; remaining the same in all cases and at all times.
It is this inconsistency that speaks to a lack of professionalism in the eyes of our passengers. Do they care, or do they believe a hat makes a pilot more professional? Probably not, for most. However, there are some people in our profession who do care. It is not that hard people. If your company has a uniform policy, don't gripe about it, follow it. If you would like the uniform policy to change, I am sure most companies have a procedure you can follow to enact that change.
U-NI-FORM - the distinctive clothing worn by members of the same organization or body or by children attending certain schools - or - not changing in form or character; remaining the same in all cases and at all times.
It is this inconsistency that speaks to a lack of professionalism in the eyes of our passengers. Do they care, or do they believe a hat makes a pilot more professional? Probably not, for most. However, there are some people in our profession who do care. It is not that hard people. If your company has a uniform policy, don't gripe about it, follow it. If you would like the uniform policy to change, I am sure most companies have a procedure you can follow to enact that change.
You're right though. No one cares. Not even a little bit.
09-25-2015, 07:29 PM
#6915
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Joined APC: Aug 2011
Position: Driving a Bus for Recreational Pleasure.
Posts: 544
Originally Posted by Orbit
The TSA agent in LGA who insists on looking at my ID for the tenth time. She just doesn't trust the last nine government agents that looked at it. Tool of the day.
How about when they inspect your KCM card after your Crew ID?
09-26-2015, 07:27 AM
#6917
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Joined APC: Jun 2010
Position: DOWNGRADE COMPLETE: Thanks Gary. Thanks SWAPA.
Posts: 6,142
Originally Posted by Turbosina
The SWA pilot today, who when told to follow a E-175, responded 'Roger, looking for the little guy.'
Really?
Really?
The VAST majority of the avoidance bid list systemwide is PHX Cptns even though it's but one in ten of our bases. Again, what does that tell you about PHX/the Lukewaffa as that base has so unaffectionately come to be know?
There's another thread on here where FOs are b!7ching about having to deal with the PHX Cptns and how miserable life can be for them in that base.
Sorry you got all butt hurt, but the facts are the facts and they do it to themselves. The vast majority of the issues and problems at SWA are because they've hired so many people straight out of AF single pilot aircraft and the accompanying attitudes that tend to go with that.
Last edited by WHACKMASTER; 09-26-2015 at 07:55 AM.
09-26-2015, 07:28 AM
#6918
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Joined APC: Jun 2010
Position: DOWNGRADE COMPLETE: Thanks Gary. Thanks SWAPA.
Posts: 6,142
Originally Posted by MikeF16
More likely an ex-tranny who always dreamed of flying the BUFF but is stuck in a mighty -900 and knows life gets no better than that.
09-26-2015, 07:51 AM
#6919
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Joined APC: Jun 2010
Position: DOWNGRADE COMPLETE: Thanks Gary. Thanks SWAPA.
Posts: 6,142
Along this line, I'd like to nominate the TOTD as the ex-AF SWA cptn who deemed it necessary to taxi around like a [deleted] banshee, cut the taxi lines, be rough on the brakes and tiller, throw the FAs and PAX around like they're boxes on a Fedex or UPS jet, and then have the nerve to b!tch about a Delta Mad Dog that was taxiing "slow".
Later that day while we were taxiing out to the penalty box TO SIT FOR A WHEELS UP TIME, we got behind a UAL-Express ERJ that was once again taxiing like normal people do. His comment was, "He must be practicing for mainline". He didn't seem to appreciate my response of, "He's taxiing like every other carrier taxies. Have you not noticed that we're the ones that have a seemingly monthly taxiway/runway excursion or collision with another aircraft or surface equipment?"
TOOL! Slow the [sunflower seed] down! It's not missles strapped to the wings anymore!'
Later that day while we were taxiing out to the penalty box TO SIT FOR A WHEELS UP TIME, we got behind a UAL-Express ERJ that was once again taxiing like normal people do. His comment was, "He must be practicing for mainline". He didn't seem to appreciate my response of, "He's taxiing like every other carrier taxies. Have you not noticed that we're the ones that have a seemingly monthly taxiway/runway excursion or collision with another aircraft or surface equipment?"
TOOL! Slow the [sunflower seed] down! It's not missles strapped to the wings anymore!'
Last edited by vagabond; 09-26-2015 at 12:32 PM. Reason: edited out profanity
09-26-2015, 08:55 AM
#6920
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Joined APC: Jun 2008
Posts: 3,716
Originally Posted by WHACKMASTER
First of all it was a SWA pilot so a 3 in 4 chance of them being ex-AF. Second, someone with prior 121 carrier experience is not going to say something that stupid. Third, no ex-regional guy is going to say something that stupid. So where does the probablity lie?
The VAST majority of the avoidance bid list systemwide is PHX Cptns even though it's but one in ten of our bases. Again, what does that tell you about PHX/the Lukewaffa as that base has so unaffectionately come to be know?
There's another thread on here where FOs are b!7ching about having to deal with the PHX Cptns and how miserable life can be for them in that base.
Sorry you got all butt hurt, but the facts are the facts and they do it to themselves. The vast majority of the issues and problems at SWA are because they've hired so many people straight out of AF single pilot aircraft and the accompanying attitudes that tend to go with that.
The VAST majority of the avoidance bid list systemwide is PHX Cptns even though it's but one in ten of our bases. Again, what does that tell you about PHX/the Lukewaffa as that base has so unaffectionately come to be know?
There's another thread on here where FOs are b!7ching about having to deal with the PHX Cptns and how miserable life can be for them in that base.
Sorry you got all butt hurt, but the facts are the facts and they do it to themselves. The vast majority of the issues and problems at SWA are because they've hired so many people straight out of AF single pilot aircraft and the accompanying attitudes that tend to go with that.
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