That is awesome you chose the name Topgun! Why would a Topgun deal with such headache of flying on nasty 121.

What is your aviation background Topgun

 

I jumpseat on them all the time and even though there's delays sometimes, guess what, there's delays on every airline. The pilots are always extremely nice and accommodating and do what they can to make sure I get on. Just because you have an issue with the "Company", doesn't mean that the people are bad.

 

I am going to change my handle to "TopGunIronEagleFlightoftheIntruder".

That should take care of all the 80's flying movies. I know, I know, I am writing checks my body can't cash...

 

Wonder if the crew was haulin rubber dog poo....uh.........

 

Great balls of fire!!

 

For about $1,000 and hour you can get yourself a nice shiny biz jet and two non-IOE pilots to fly you around.

Or just take your personalized F-14 ...

 

I just have to say that IAD ground crews are the "joke" here, not the Mesa crew. It is very rare for ground crews at IAD to get you pushed back for an On Time departure. Just because someone is "new" or on IOE doesn't make them "unprofessional". I don't work for Mesa and I haven't really ever had a bad Mesa crew (deadheaded on them more than once), in fact, I've had much worse service from mainline United FA's (one FA even went so far as to accuse me of smoking in a bathroom, when I had actually had a smoke in the reserved smoking row before using the bathroom (it was a flight from Tokyo to Hong Kong and they reserved the last row of seats for people to smoke, at least they used to back in 1994) Obviously the majority of FA's I have experience on mainline United are very professional and courteous, however, it does show that it isn't just Regionals that may have an "unprofessional" crew.

 

How do I know it was an IOE?
1) Sat in 1c (last seat in the house). FO was being instructed on how to use the door, adjust his seat, use the PA and how to fill out the paper work.
2) every PA was repeated by the captain as the FO did not know how to use the PA- He was completely unintelligable.
3) After 16000 hours in part 121 and years in corporate you know how things work!.
I came up through the ranks, CFI, corporate, regional, 121, furloughed, 121, corporate. A 1st class operation this was not!

 

Was the flight attendants name.... Penny Benjamin??? Just a guess

 

Wow. Nowhere in your resume is Top Gun listed. You must be Chuck Yeager reborn on the 182