DL International Jumpseat Etiquette?
 

Dear Ms Manners :)

I jumpseated on DL from ATL to CUN yesterday. The load was light and I was assigned a seat in the back. On boarding, I stuck my head in the cockpit to say thanks but the crew seemed completely disinterested.

What is the accepted protocol for this situation? Am I expected to show my smiling face, or just shut up and sit down in the assigned seat?

Confused in Cancun!

disreagrd.......

disreagrd....... ing

Non revving - don't bother.
Jumpseating- international/domestic, always introduce yourself, you did the right thing...

I'm sitting on a plane about to commute to work, have a Mai tai for me.

You did it right. You're correct that the crew probably doesn't really care, or maybe they were just busy or having a bad day, but it's the proper etiquette to make the attempt and let them know you're back there. The only times I've ever skipped the intro was when squeeking on just as the door was closing and the F/A's are rushing everyone to sit down. In that case, I still say something to the lead F/A and then thank the cockpit crew when deplaning.

Reality is your just a nonrev and yes you are supposed to say hello.If you pop your head in the cockpit and I'm putting in a long FP or working an MX issue you may just get a weak wave....

Gentlemen,

We must not allow the professional courtesy and civility between us to diminish. I will always make an effort to check in with the cockpit crew when I am jumpseating and will ALWAYS take the time to greet a jumpseater who has stuck his head in the door, no matter what I am doing. It only takes a few seconds.

This is one of the last few items we have left that we have in common so let's not lose it. Am sorry you were blown off when you were on a DL flight, will not happen when I am there.

Respectfully

You did it right. Continue.

That is an MD-88 flight; a mutant form of Douglas jet that Delta has a strange fetish for. The crew may have been in prayer, or filling out ASRS reports for some deviation, or a combination of both tasks.

May have been? :D.

I'd be very reluctant to take the flight w/o getting the captain's permission....even if it meant missing the flight. I think you'd be on very thin ice if the Captain wasn't happy about you jumpseating on his aircraft w/o asking him.