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Originally Posted by Broncofan (Post 2218034)

And virgin america and jet blue

Good point! Forgot about that.

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Originally Posted by Leslie Chow (Post 2216241)

Funny is when, as it was explained to me, the passengers were deplaning and some douchebag captain jumped some guy in uniform's ass for not coming up and asking for a ride before the flight departed. The pilot just looked at him and said, "Really??? I'm a fractional pilot, and I'm on the fully-refundable fare ticket that paid your boat payment for this month, you dick."

Perfect.

I was on an OO flight recently in uniform since I was departing an airport without KCM. When I got to the destination and left the Captain seemed to give me a bit of a cross eyed look like he thought I was a jumpseater who didn't check in. I was, of course, on a full fare ticket

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Originally Posted by sandrich (Post 2218013)

I'm an ACMI guy. I jump seated (jumpsat ?) on American this year. The flight was empty. She gave me an actual boarding pass with a seat assignment and everything. I asked if I still had to go up front and give the captain anything and her answer was no. I didn't have any paperwork to give the captain or anything. Needless to say I still stopped in up front just to say "hey" and get their approval but I got the impression from them that it wasn't needed. Better safe than sorry.

Where I was really thrown off was in flight, the FA came by to serve drinks and says to me "ya know, if you take your ID off I can serve you drinks (alcohol)" so I told her no thanks and that I was jumpseating. She goes "oh, that doesn't matter. But suit yourself"

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Yup had a United FA say the same to me. She meant well, but FAs don't get that jumpseaters can't have alcohol since they do it all the time when they jumpseat

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Originally Posted by The Juice (Post 2217967)

No thread better illustrates how Type A control freaks pilots are than this one does, or any other jumpseat thread that is on here.

You check in up front, on any jumpseat, and ask. That's it. Why all the pages with "well I do this..."

It literally is that simple.

I agree. It's not that difficult.

Flight Attendents and gate agents do not own the jump seat. It is a pilot group benefit, negotiated by the Unions (ALPA originally), spread to the other carriers by the Union Reps and managed by the Captain! Professional courtesy demands you say Hello to Captain, identify yourself and "ask" for the jumpseat. Even if you have an assigned seat in the back -even at American, as I flew with a Captain that went back and got the JS pilot. Additionally, dress as required by the operation carrier. ALPA has an open webpage showing listin requirements and dress code. And someone said earlier, you may end up in the cockpit, if the back fills up. So, even though it may show on the ALPA website that jeans are ok; you have to be in a uniform/business attire to sit in the cockpit.

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Originally Posted by ufgatorpilot (Post 2218215)

I agree. It's not that difficult.

I'll third this. It really is just that simple.

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Originally Posted by The Juice (Post 2217967)

No $hit, this is crazy.

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Originally Posted by Turbosina (Post 2218037)

I actually had a guy ask me for it once, no joke.

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Originally Posted by Turbosina (Post 2218041)

No, but... You know what I was trying to say.

Yeah I gotcha, sorry to give you a hard time, I know you were just giving advice to another pilot, my bad.

I'm a Republic Capt. I do my best to ask the gate agent, before door close, if we have jumpseaters or non revs and say hello / welcome onboard. A little proactivity prevents these issues.

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