Delta hat culture?

derg said:
How DARE you! :)

It’s generational and socioeconomic.

Tattoos - knock yourself out, I really don’t care as my own country of birth makes me feel ‘unique’ even more so than foreign countries. The policy is no visible tattoos, end of story.

Hats - I knew it was an image-forward company when I applied, they pay me, and even at my ‘level’, they never query my opinion on corporate image so I have bad news for the grumpy pilot is mad because his cop coat was more practical or comfortable at his last regional.

Beards - it’s complicated

My generation had the “mullet” - it looks alright on some people, but most, “Bruv, come on now, you’re not Billy Ray Cyrus”
Millennials have a fascination with beards. It looks good on some people, but most: “You look like Ernest Hemingway after a ketamine bender”
Gen Z has their broccoli top haircut.

I’ll retire and die, then the people who never got to wear beards will complain about their Gen Z “broccoli top” first officers and the broccoli tops will complain about Gen Alpha’s fascination with capri pants.

The grumpy broccoli tops pilots will tell the Alpha’s “Ryan Gosling pulled off Capri pants and, Tover, you’re no Ryan Gosling…”

Bets start at $50.

And the cycle will continue until Emperor Eric Trump the Third gets us into a thermonuclear war with Brazil.
Click to expand...
Shutting up and scribbling, aye aye.
 
Roger Roger said:
Every time I see a herd of FAs from whatever Asian airline uses our commuter hotel I think of you
Click to expand...

This is true. Domestic short LGA layovers, we stay at a hotel that Asiana Airlines stays at. I’d see the 380 crew pull up in a bus and I’d think of @ChasenSFO:

Here’s an old video I made:

 
Autothrust Blue said:
f-WAL pilots are single digits too last I looked.
Click to expand...

FWIW, there are only slightly more fDAL than fNWA. There are only a few hundred, if that, that were pre-merger and hired post 9/11 at either outfit.

There were very few hired in 2010. About 200 or so. They won the early bird lotto, after a fashion, and they'll have the very top spots here in a few years, but they got to sit 4-5 years of stagnation and probably sitting reserve for all those years in NYC. The real sweet spot was if you were young and hired in 2014, maybe into 15. While everyone in the teens will do pretty well, the 2014-15 folks rocketed up the list for nearly a decade, and will very senior for a very long time.
 
Roger Roger said:
A theocratic government that gets us into nuclear war with Brazil? Has someone besides @Ian_J been reading Bobiverse?
Click to expand...

If you read early Traveller 2000s stuff, it was Argentina that took us to the stars, because the stutterwarp drive required lots of tantalum, which Argentina happened to be sitting on.
 
Richman said:
FWIW, there are only slightly more fDAL than fNWA. There are only a few hundred, if that, that were pre-merger and hired post 9/11 at either outfit.

There were very few hired in 2010. About 200 or so. They won the early bird lotto, after a fashion, and they'll have the very top spots here in a few years, but they got to sit 4-5 years of stagnation and probably sitting reserve for all those years in NYC. The real sweet spot was if you were young and hired in 2014, maybe into 15. While everyone in the teens will do pretty well, the 2014-15 folks rocketed up the list for nearly a decade, and will very senior for a very long time.
Click to expand...
Oh, I am very aware.

That said I went to Nice on new-hire OE and they didn't, so I'll take that as my own personal victory.

Edit: Also, my best friend was a 2010 hire, and I enjoy looking at his assignment history, which is very much "FLY ALL THE THINGS IN ALL THE PLACES."
 
Last edited:
Richman said:
If you read early Traveller 2000s stuff, it was Argentina that took us to the stars, because the stutterwarp drive required lots of tantalum, which Argentina happened to be sitting on.
Click to expand...
I think you would like the Bobiverse. Specifically, you would relate to the main character’s dim view of humanity.
 
Whose uniform looks the most like a Russian police?

1746210466848.jpeg
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top