Thank you
12-29-2019, 04:55 PM
#1
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Joined APC: Nov 2010
Position: Airbus 320 / First Officer
Posts: 15
Thank you
The other morning I was requesting a Jumpseat out of Durango, CO (DRO). Fully-loaded flight on EMB-145. Weather was crap everywhere. I had to spend the night in the airport due to cancellations and I was bumped off a previous Jumpseat.
You guys stepped up and helped me get home after being separated from my family the day before. Your captain worked with the dispatcher to find a better alternate that would allow me to ride.
I am truly grateful for him helping to make this happen. I’m sure there are some of you on here who have been in the same position. It’s a tight spot but going the extra mile for one another is what makes this profession so great.
I hope I can extend a Jumpseat to one of you soon. Thank you again for your professionalism and your attention to a desperate jumpseater.
RK
Delta Air Lines
You guys stepped up and helped me get home after being separated from my family the day before. Your captain worked with the dispatcher to find a better alternate that would allow me to ride.
I am truly grateful for him helping to make this happen. I’m sure there are some of you on here who have been in the same position. It’s a tight spot but going the extra mile for one another is what makes this profession so great.
I hope I can extend a Jumpseat to one of you soon. Thank you again for your professionalism and your attention to a desperate jumpseater.
RK
Delta Air Lines
12-29-2019, 06:47 PM
#2
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Joined APC: Oct 2008
Posts: 22
This happens more than one might imagine. On Thanksgiving Day I saw a CA work with Dispatch to pick a better alternate and lower contingency fuel so we could take 48 instead of the 40 pax the initial numbers crunched out. All done safely and professionally.
12-30-2019, 09:31 AM
#3
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Joined APC: Oct 2010
Position: 145
Posts: 219
A lot of us here have commuted at some point. 99% will do what we can to make the numbers work. We get it.
As a captain, I can only think of one time I've left a jumpseater behind. It was exceptionally bad weather and we just couldn't find suitable alternates closer to the destination, but we really tried to make it work (had to bump a couple pax, too, unfortunately).
As a captain, I can only think of one time I've left a jumpseater behind. It was exceptionally bad weather and we just couldn't find suitable alternates closer to the destination, but we really tried to make it work (had to bump a couple pax, too, unfortunately).
01-05-2020, 03:36 PM
#4
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Joined APC: Nov 2019
Posts: 147
I can add a +1 to this. I have only jumpseated on Trans States once, but the loads weren't good to anywhere that day so they got me out of a tight spot in that regard, and I thought the flight crew was a class act. They had to jump through some hoops to get me on, but they did it, and I felt welcomed by both the CA/FO and the FA. One of the great things about this job.
