You have zero concept of personal courtesy. It has ZERO to do with whether this passenger was a pilot or not. It's simple: when someone - anyone - greets you and says something nice, respond in kind. Don't be an ass. It's just simple human courtesy, apparently something your mother never taught you.

 

It's a FORUM. Puhleez. Are we THAT important at APC?

 

Hmmm. Did I dream of becoming a pilot because I love to fly airplanes??? or to have passengers acknowledge my greeting or appreciation.

Ummm.... I'll have to get back on you on this one.

 

Millennial's. All those participation trophies have created the incessant need to be acknowledged, valued and appreciated.

A to B without bending metal, having some laughs and not pranging the landing is all I want myself.

 

All to easy response........

Crabby/grumpy old baby boomer can't say "hi" because he oh so willingly gave out all those trophies.......

I'm NOT a millennial BTW.

 

Millenial? I'm FAR from it. 52 years old for me. You guys are totally missing this guy's point, which is: if someone - anyone - says something nice to you, don't be rude and fail to acknowlege them. It's just impolite. MY mother and father taught me to smile and acknowlege people when they speak to me. If one is standing there and greeting someone and/or says something nice, then the other should smile or say thank you, or whatever. It's flat out rude to not respond to someone greeting you. Yes, I understand that some people may have someting horrible on their mind, but let's face it, most do not at any given time. To NOT respond gives off the impression that somehow this is the old British Caste system in which one does not acknowlege someone of a lower Caste becasue, well, they're just not worthy enough to be responded to or acknkowleged. They're beneath you.

The original poster of that comment who you are so quick to judge made it clear in subsequent posts that he was referring to basic common politeness, something which eveidently escapes many of you.

 

^^^^^ Thank you sir. (Or ma'am).

 

100% truth!

 

Les is probably near retirement, and can fall back on some union protections in any case.

Plus he's high enough profile that if AA disciplined or fired him it would likely blow up in their face in a very public manner. I think they'll just bite the bullet on this one.

 

Even though we all know who he works for, he never mentions the airline in THAT column, so he could argue that he never specifically disparaged any specific named airline publicly.

I feel his pain, though. We've all been there.