and those kind humans among us who have empathy for our fellow travelers will spare some for you despite your hatred and ill will towards your fellow human...hope you find your way out of the darkness, friend

this was the right thing to do and i will wager there is nothing on this captain's social media about it, if he even has social media

sometimes doing the right thing is enough of a motivation

the goodwill resulting to the company benefits all of us who after all depend on customers to pay our generous salaries for this most awesome career

those of us who detest pax and can't wait to get away from them, please just keep away and don't say anything, better to be thought an ********* than open your mouth and confirm it

Thank you for writing that...so I didn't have to.

Good on him. I think the people worrying about his expense report are missing the big picture. A guy did something nice and represented a Captain for United well. He didn’t do it for upvotes, internet points, or any other reason than to be a Captain. I will bet he will be rewarded well beyond $400 in pizza for being a good person by many parties. You miserable people worried about being reimbursed have lost the plot. Take care of your people, be humble, and cash the checks while the good times are here.

Well said. Not sure why some think there's always an ulterior motive to being a caring person. Whether you would personally do it really doesn't matter. Some just really enjoy making others happy. I'm married to one🙂

I don't think the expectation of reimbursement is that crazy. Certainly don't see one being miserable for thinking feeding the entire plane on their dime is not their responsibility.

I think its great he ordered pizzas. But passengers already got @ $2400 in meal vouchers with an open food court until 830, that was probably better than Dominos .

You're in good company with all the whiny babies around here. I recently heard that half the pilot group is post-merger hires. Good, there's so much dead wood at the top end of the seniority list that needs to hang it up. There's around 30 frequent fliers on the United Pilots FB group that just complain, whine, and bítch about so many things, that they have to go invent things to complain about. Like you, speculating he won't get paid, then complaining about it as though it wasn't just your fan fiction. Or the flare debriefing thing. Acres of screen scrolling of whiny babies complaining about something that doesn't actually exist yet.

How much longer until 65 for you?

Don't waste your time on that guy. In his mind, the only time you should do anything is if you benefit more from the interaction. He has absolutely no empathy or understanding that some people do things because they feel that it is the right thing to do, regardless if they get something out of it. That's why you see him and others try to spin this as though this captain was doing it for social media clout or some other unlikely nonsense. It's all transactional for them - they cannot understand people who are not like them.

Spoken like a petulant child who lacks the historical knowledge of what can and WILL be done to you in your career. Made worse by refusing to listen to and belittling those who have experienced it.

You would think that after looking like a fool on the uniform thread that Khergan and his ilk would have learned something. Guess not. Petulant children indeed.

In Basic Indoc, there is a module on customer engagement where situations like this are discussed. The company absoutely wants us to do this and will reimburse for it.