On a ramp frequency one day, years ago;

Legacy airline: "ramp, pushed of (insert gate), ready to taxi"

Ramp: "follow the third RJ to (insert spot) and call ground"

Legacy airline: "Say again how many little guys we're supposed to follow?"

Unknown transmitter: "That's what happens when you have little scope, too many little guys"

Silence...........

I'm gonna guess ex-AF. :rolleyes:

He probably heard a 777 guy say that about him the trip before. Now he's got a chip.

Priceless. So I'm on the ramp in ATL one evening after having just landed and we're holding short of the center roadway for traffic just pushed off our gate. Ramp lines up an opposite direction Mad Dawg with us and he sits there with his taxi lights on. So my Captain turns on his lights(nose and recogs) in quiet retaliation I assume. Mad dawg proceeds to turn his lights off (in quiet indignation I assume).

Then my Captain proceeds to transition to the now open gate without turning on any lights for taxi, I almost felt it coming "hey RJ driver you're supposed to have your lights on when moving on the ramp!!!"

I kept quiet and thought the whole back and forth between the two was just unnecessary but then again I'm just the hired help.

-2263

I'm going to guess a Whackmaster. :p:eek::D

The ORF Baggage Throwers who don't know what a Deadhead tag is. 5 out of 6 guys gave me the blank stare when I had to go retrieve it. "A what...?" Only one had a clue, and at least I got a "Sorry, dude" look from him. Thanks for almost sending it to baggage claim... I guess it could have been worse.

What airline were you on? Over the 9 years that I worked on the ramp for a legacy carrier we never had any type of bag tags referred to officially or colloquially as a 'deadhead' tag. I've never heard any one ever use that term, at other airlines, either.

Sounds like you probably had a gate check tag and they goofed and didn't bring it up. I understand their confusion though. If you had asked me for a bag with a 'deadhead' tag on it, I would've been curious as to what you meant as well, but knowing that you're a crew member I would have simply looked for any extra bags with a gate check tag on it.

It's a bright yellow tag that states "deadhead." Most the commuters I know have one on their bag.

I think Delta Mainline has a specific deadhead tag. It requires the crewmember to retrieve their bag down by the airplane as opposed to the ground crew bringing it up to the jetway.

As a offline jumpseater, I have been erroneously given this tag before. Lesson learned.

Please correct you grammar. You should of wrote:
As an offline jumpseater...