"Doug Taylor Stole My Jumpseat!"

That guy probably never calls out fatigued too.

Viewing the financial cost to having crew members calling in fatigued, or improved duty/flight time regulations, he is The Man for every task given to him by his company.

Company first.

Doug Taylor be damned. No Jumpseat for you.

ASA ALPA just sent out a UAX Jumpseat priority sheet. The sheet developed by all UAX carriers, provides a simple to read breakdown of who has priority - depending on which company is operating the flight. I highly recommend all UAX pilots to contact their Jumpseat chair for a version of this sheet - use to your benefit.
 
I heard Doug Taylor clubs baby seals, takes candy from babies, and calls people up randomnly!:D
 
Reminds me of what happened on a flight I worked last week. I sent the rest of the crew on ahead as I returned a rental car (it was an almost 24 hr overnight...never happens). There was a mainline guy who was walking through security with after I had returned a rental car it. Starts talking to me, tells me he could have gone up last night or on the 630 flight but he wanted a little extra sleep at home on a Sunday morning. Whatever, that's cool. We get up to the gate area...I notice there's another guy in uniform sitting there and think that this may become interesting if we're full. Obviously he was there first and I assume he had already spoken to the gate agent who was at the counter.

Sure enough, turns out we were full. Other pilot (that was in the gate area already) comes down and asks me for the jumpseat. After we're all situated he starts telling me the story of what happened up at the gate. Apprently, mainline guy wlaked over to him after I went down the jetbridge and started the American Inquisition. Told the sob story of how "if you had listed online for the js I would have tried an earlier flight (can't do that on us)" and "this is my last chance to get up to work on time (always push it eh?)" blah blah blah then he started getting a little "lecture happy." Basically trying to strongarm/guilt him into giving up the seat rightfully his just because mainline guy didn't wanna wake up early. Kudos to him for sticking with it and taking the seat.

There are set rules and etiquette involving the use of the jumpseat. Being mainline or older or having higher seniority doesn't necessarily guarantee you anything. Jesus Christ himself doesn't get jumpseat priority if He doesn't follow the rules and arrive when He's supposed to. Yet somehow I doubt He'd be pitching a fit if He didn't get on the flight. Everyone knows the rules, I don't understand why people get so bent out of shape over this stuff.

Only one thing guarantees you the jumpseat anytime going anywhere, and that is being Tim Martins. :D
 
Doug Taylor said:
No kidding. I've heard the same thing. I DO think we need some sort of worldwide dialogue about courtesies, procedures and expectations should take place at some point.
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YEP!

As a matter of fact I had to change my schedule around tomorrow to deal with a jumpseat issue to make a little visit to a mainline partner's MEC Office.......
 
Doug Taylor is the only pilot to ever successfully steal a js from Chuck Norris...If people ever bring up that fateful day to Chuck, they are never heard from again..
 
This is why $350/month on my chevron card and 6 hours in the truck every week are worth skipping out on the airline commute. I had a 4 hour, middle seat EWR-IAH deadhead today that further reinforced this concept. On the upside I got to watch 200x "nurse jackie" (starring edie falco), glee, and bones previews because I'm too cheap to pay the $6 for TV. How some of you guys do the 4+ hour flights twice a week I do not know. You have my respect and admiration.
 
A while ago I got called into work 1 leg to mht, then deadhead back to ewr. Family Was all down in jersey, so I didn't want to go... Full flight, a cal guy and a Colgan guy both showed... I gladly gave up my seat and went back to the fam. They both made it. :)

never assume you won't get on, and be nice. If the cal guy had been a prick, I would have taken the flight and let him find a hotel.
 
Alchemy said:
This is why $350/month on my chevron card and 6 hours in the truck every week are worth skipping out on the airline commute. I had a 4 hour, middle seat EWR-IAH deadhead today that further reinforced this concept. On the upside I got to watch 200x "nurse jackie" (starring edie falco), glee, and bones previews because I'm too cheap to pay the $6 for TV. How some of you guys do the 4+ hour flights twice a week I do not know. You have my respect and admiration.
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I hear you on this one. My commute, although it has 8 flights per day, is only a 2.5 hour drive. Its nice to be able to just get in the car and drive once a week instead.
 
Doug, you realize of course now and forever a new phrase that will rapidly be recognized throughout the industry has been coined...

Pilot A: Hey dude, how was your commute in today?

Pilot B: Ahh man it sucked! I got Doug Taylored!

Pilot A: Bummer dude.
 
RightSeatGirl said:
Doug, you realize of course now and forever a new phrase that will rapidly be recognized throughout the industry has been coined...

Pilot A: Hey dude, how was your commute in today?

Pilot B: Ahh man it sucked! I got Doug Taylored!

Pilot A: Bummer dude.
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That is freaking awesome! I have to commute to work on Wednesday. I hope I don't get Doug Taylored! Hahaha, Just hilarious.
 
I almost got Taylored a few weeks ago by a pilot who checked in at another gate while I was in line at the appropriate gate (ended up getting on anyway)...but I returned the next week with a legitimate Tayloring and it was a little ugly.
 
I will NOT miss commuting. It's almost to the point, if our Chicago base closes, I'll quit.

I wouldn't really quit, which is why I said almost. After six years of commuting ORD-EWR and MDW-SAT, I'm done with it for a while. It's been pure hell.
 
RightSeatGirl said:
Doug, you realize of course now and forever a new phrase that will rapidly be recognized throughout the industry has been coined...

Pilot A: Hey dude, how was your commute in today?

Pilot B: Ahh man it sucked! I got Doug Taylored!

Pilot A: Bummer dude.
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Before long, the kids will shorten it and the slang will be "DT'd".

Then, the street vernacular will be "yo dawg, I got D-Tizzied".
 
Eh, given a choice I'd rather have "Doug Tayloring" be used to describe a casual period of downtime where there were lots of pictures of sophisticated food that was sliced on the bias (does sausage even have a bias?), good coffee, and the use of some sort of command interpreter.
 
Minuteman said:
Eh, given a choice I'd rather have "Doug Tayloring" be used to describe a casual period of downtime where there were lots of pictures of sophisticated food that was sliced on the bias (does sausage even have a bias?), good coffee, and the use of some sort of command interpreter.
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This.

"I should 'Doug Taylor' this excellent draft Alaskan Amber I'm drinking, and upload it to Facebook."

"These crab legs are excellent!" "Well, 'Doug Taylor' them, so you can rub it in to our friends back home."

:clap::D
 
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