Int'l Jumpseat
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Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2006
Position: DD->DH->RU/XE soon to be EV
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#3
If you can land a jump on a cargo, esp. a 747, it is a primo ride overseas.
I jumped over to Amsterdam last Sept., arrived so refreshed, and it was the best trip from the US to Europe I ever had.
got to sit in the old FE seat for the takeoffs and landings. sleep in the recliners and, when available, the BED in back.
I jumped over to Amsterdam last Sept., arrived so refreshed, and it was the best trip from the US to Europe I ever had.
got to sit in the old FE seat for the takeoffs and landings. sleep in the recliners and, when available, the BED in back.
#4
Trying to get from YYC to wherever in the US, then home. The two early United flights cxcled. I want to take NorthWest and assume we're allowed to ride in back. Guess I'll find out the hard way.
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Joined APC: May 2006
Position: Student Pilot
Posts: 849
If you can land a jump on a cargo, esp. a 747, it is a primo ride overseas.
I jumped over to Amsterdam last Sept., arrived so refreshed, and it was the best trip from the US to Europe I ever had.
got to sit in the old FE seat for the takeoffs and landings. sleep in the recliners and, when available, the BED in back.
I jumped over to Amsterdam last Sept., arrived so refreshed, and it was the best trip from the US to Europe I ever had.
got to sit in the old FE seat for the takeoffs and landings. sleep in the recliners and, when available, the BED in back.
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Rubber dogsh#t out of HKG
Joined APC: Jan 2008
Position: Senior Seat Cushion Tester Extraordinaire
Posts: 620
#10
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Joined APC: Sep 2006
Posts: 787
About that--best story of my life on a 75 NWA DTW-DUS (when they still did that route...GOD I miss NWA...makes me want to cry)...I had just rushed to make the flight and was still in uniform...got a seat in coach, didn't have a chance to say hello to the flight crew...right as the door closes this d-bag biz traveler in coach runs up to the FA and says "I have Elite status, I saw you had some seats in First, could I go ahead and move up now?" FA looks right at me and then tells the biz traveler "there are seats up there, but I have no idea who you are, and there is a procedure for listing for first, so I can't let you just up and go there." I think she was planning on offering the seat to me, but felt uncomfortable doing so in front of the guy who had asked, since he was a paying pax and it might upset that guy seeing a pilot get moved up.
About 45 minutes into the flight, the senior CA comes back (I'm still 2 rows in front of the biz traveler guy) and says "I heard some guy back here wanted to sit in first, but that we also had a pilot back here...way I see it, that's YOUR seat up front..come with me son."
That CA was a class act, and the epitome of "the old school." I can only hope that one day after all the stuff the industry is going through that there will still be pilots like that on the line...
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