Jumpseating on A320. 2 jumpseaters.
Friendly crew- great crew in fact.
I take my seat behind the Captain. Other dude is in the other jumpseat.
2.5 hr flight. Dude was a self-entitled prick about lots of things. Crew meal came, CA offered him bread roll- he turned it down but asked for his fresh fruit instead.
Minor, maybe. As was his being a total clutz when the FO wanted to use the Lav and he (jumpseater) struggled with keeping his bags under control and even left the cockpit door wide open for several seconds. (I closed it).
BUT. Who cares about that. What made him the TOOL OF THE DECADE was... I looked over at one point- dude was picking his nose!! Not subtlely. No, his entire finger was excavating. And he was flicking his boogers into the crew's trash bag.
And this continued for 90 minutes of the flight!!!!
I eventually got a glimpse of his badge.. stalked him on facebook- Embry Riddle grad. Flies for a regional.
After the flight; he had the audacity to shake hands with the crew with those nasty digits. I made sure my hands were occupied with my bags.
Heard the crew saying "wow" after he'd left and I was departing- think they knew about the whole thing.

 

.....wow. How these people get this far in life is beyond me.

 

 

Kind of a different subject. It's not common courtesy to interrupt everything going on in the flight deck prior to a flight just to announce you're sitting in the back. Imagine if every passenger did that!

 

You are not like every other passenger, you are exercising, with the consent of the Captain, your privilege as a Jumpseater. Where you end up sitting is beside the point, you gained access to the flight via Jumpseat privileges. It takes a few seconds, it is professional courtesy to atleast introduce yourself...
If you're too overwhelmed to break from your checklist as 150 pax slowly shuffle into their seats, perhaps you shouldn't be running a checklist.

 

Ok. Read it again

 

Not required at all airlines (think Delta.) The times they are a-changin'.

I couldn't care less if they come up to say hello/ask permission.

 

OK. Again, different subject. There were definitely posts about non-revving and jumpseat etiquette since the original post, my friend.....

 

I'm sure most pilots can handle an interrupted checklist, Montanaflying.... but if we have a 25 min turn and we're blazing through briefings and checklists and clearances blah blah trying to gtfo on time I don't need Joe Smoe interrupting halfway through just to announce he's sitting in the back. If you aren't taking up my cockpit space why should I care, specifically?

I think the "professional courtesy" bit is self-serving and needs to be updated. If you're in the back the jumpseat privileges are the same as any other nonrev privileges we have, practically speaking anyway.... I certainly won't be storming into the cabin to berate someone because they didn't stop by up front first to kiss my a##.

 

Goggles,


How often do you see a pilot headed to the back because the agent said take a seat, yet still in possession of a 1P boarding pass? I see it quite often since the agents are too lazy/rushed to change their status. Now they show up on the WDR as a jump seater and you have an unresolved weight and balance issue you have to handle. I think it's easier for JS'ers to just stop at the door and say hi.

Omar