Using the previous posters reasoning, your type rating is issued and certified by the FAA. There are ways you could go outside your current employer and legally fly a 757/767 TODAY in the left seat. That makes you a Captain even though you can't hold the job on your current seniority list.

With your attitude, you will ALWAYS be just a bus driver. Most of us understand that we have hundreds of peoples lives in our hands every leg while a Doctor only has one at a time.

You might be right though. You probably do have more in common with a fork lift driver. Your spelling and grammar are certainly congruent.

We'll I guess I'm going to nominate myself because, for the most part, I agree with Packrat. I am in no way endorsing blowing ones horn by demanding to be addressed as "Captain." But the position itself demands some respect.

My father is a retired (1969) Navy captain who has never tried to demand respect because of it. He has many retired navy friends that are the same way. Out of respect for them I will address them by sir or their rank. Not one them asks or demands it but, IMO, they certainly deserve that respect. Now someone who DOES demand being called by their military rank is a complete tool but I believe they do have that right. They did earn it.

Denny

Gee, I always thought airline captains got their title because they were, well, captain of the ship.

Denny

Completely agree. You may disagree vehemently with George Bush or Barak Obama, but they both should be addressed as "Mr. President." Same goes for John Boehner or Nancy Pelosi. They're entitled to be addressed as "Mr. Speaker" or "Madam Speaker."

Its merely good manners.

Some people are Captains. Some are fork lift drivers. I guess its all in the level of pride and professionalism they exhibit.

You can usually tell the difference by the way they wear their uniform.

Packrat,and Denny have it right.

Tool runner up. Please find another career since you seem to hold your present one in such low regard. At a time when we need to be restoring our pay and working conditions, a "management" wannabe comes along.

Yes, you do have a type. But no, you are not a captain. Captain is a job title from a company and nothing more. In the eyes of the FAA, you are a pilot in command.

I have a general aviation buddy that always calls me "Captain" in public. It makes me cringe. Despite the situation's awkwardness, he's such a nice guy, I've never asked that he stop doing it. The title is reserved for when I am wearing the uniform at work and only at work, unless it's a phone call from crew scheduling (which I wouldn't answer anyways) or maybe... if a fellow crew member sees their "Captain" on a layover and is shallow enough not to have remembered their name.

Insisting people call you that otherwise, puts you in the same category as this nozzle... What was he ever "Captain" of??!!!!

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Well, he was the "Captain" of Toni's "little boat" until she furloughed him!