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.

Is really worth getting one's knickers in a twist over? I mean come on. I'm going to my safe place because that mean old jump seater didn't say hello, goodbye or thanks :-(''''. Very presumptive and arrogant of you sir to state that politeness escapes many service employees. What's your suggestion 450... Run up the jet bridge and slap sum politeness into the rude ruffian? Place and label his picture on a special Facebook page?

Not returning a salutation is not always deliberate. Many reasons have been pointed out in previous posts.

Such as life. Enjoy your day and hopefull you're not faced with more threatening issues such as no breadsticks to go with your crew meal.

Whatever, man. It's a discussion. Nothing more. When I see people do what the OP discribed, I simply roll my eyes, look at the FA in the galley with that "what a douchebag" look, and move on. Nothing more.

Doesn't mean I don't think people like the guy he described are rude. Do it once? Whatever. Do it twice on one flight? Angry, rude guy. Eye roll from me, then moving on.

Will I discuss this rudeness on a forum? You bet. It's a FORUM. What else are we supposed to do in here?

I think a lot of it has to do with being in the trenches at a regional and thinking that someday it will all be sunshine and rainbows when that major calls.

Then you run into someone at a major more miserable than you are. Suddenly your whole life plan takes a nosedive.

Frankly I'm surprised people are defending someone without any common courtesy. If I wave I expect to be waved back at. If I say hello and you ignore me I dislike you. Why shouldn't someone be upset for the same scenario on their own aircraft?