I'm just going to leave this riiiiiiight here...

ATN_Pilot said:
We fought tooth and nail to make sure they couldn’t get ACARS reroutes. They’d still have a crew scheduler waiting for us at the gate, but if we saw them before the door opened we’d jump out the service door and run. :)
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The EMB-120s had a door to the cabin from the cargo pit. Sometimes the F/A jumpseat would get stuck to the steps on the door in the forward lav birds and a ramper or pilot would have to crawl in to un-jam it and open the door. Once in a blue moon, I'm guessing as a last resort, an ops agent would meet an aircraft to get a pilot to call crew scheduling. I'm at the bottom of the belt loader one day and right as we finish the gate check bag offload, the ramper in the pit hears knocking on the door, thinks it's an F/A in the aft galley asking for something. Nope, captain comes out, grabs his own crew bag from the corner of the pit, follows the ramper out of the pit and onto the belt loader, and off into the abyss he goes. It was pretty epic, only time I ever saw something like that though I've heard stories.
 
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bucksmith said:
You guys really need to eat better. That's why I hate per diem. You'll eat crap and try to make money off the stuff. Get an expense account and go and enjoy some steak. A real nice piece of medium rare beef.
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This is my biggest pet peeve in group traveling. There’s always the guy veto’ing good food because he wants to go value menu and save 4 dollars.


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Lawman said:
This is my biggest pet peeve in group traveling. There’s always the guy veto’ing good food because he wants to go value menu and save 4 dollars.


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Yup. My biggest pet peeve is hearing, usually from FAs, "I love this hotel it's next to a mall and there's a ton of restaurants like Olive Garden and Red Robin!"
"You can't eat those at home whenever you want?"

That or trying to get us kicked out of hotels for lack of a fridge/microwave in the room. I get it, eating out is expensive, but I'll take a good location with good restaurants any day of the week. I've never had a hotel fridge keep my stuff cold enough on a 4 day that I wasn't afraid to eat it later anyway.
 
JordanD said:
That or trying to get us kicked out of hotels for lack of a fridge/microwave in the room.
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And this is why at my airline we rarely don’t stay at a place that doesn’t have the word Inn or Express in it. We get kicked out of the good hotels like Hilton and Marriott and get put into a Fairfield Inn because it has a fridge and microwave in the room. It’s super frustrating. I’m all for separating the crews. The ones who want a fridge/microwave and an Applebee’s can stay by the airport. I’ll take the downtown hotel.
 
ChasenSFO said:
The EMB-120s had a door to the cabin from the cargo pit. Sometimes the F/A jumpseat would get stuck to the steps on the door in the forward lav birds and a ramper or pilot would have to crawl in to un-jam it and open the door. Once in a blue moon, I'm guessing as a last resort, an ops agent would meet an aircraft to get a pilot to call crew scheduling. I'm at the bottom of the belt loader one day and right as we finish the gate check bag offload, the ramper in the pit hears knocking on the door, thinks it's an F/A in the aft galley asking for something. Nope, captain comes out, grabs his own crew bag from the corner of the pit, follows the ramper out of the pit and onto the belt loader, and off into the abyss he goes. It was pretty epic, only time I ever saw something like that though I've heard stories.
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Never get between a pilot and his commute home. :)

JordanD said:
That or trying to get us kicked out of hotels for lack of a fridge/microwave in the room.
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The FAs got PISSED at us for negotiating into our contract business class level hotels (Hilton, Marriott, etc) for just this reason. Sorry, but eating four day old food out of a cooler doesn’t appeal to me, crazy cat lady.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
Never get between a pilot and his commute home. :)



The FAs got PISSED at us for negotiating into our contract business class level hotels (Hilton, Marriott, etc) for just this reason. Sorry, but eating four day old food out of a cooler doesn’t appeal to me, crazy cat lady.
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Yeah... I've tried it for the sake of liking my cooking better than whatever Sysco crap the hotel wants to charge me 12 dollars for... but after 2/3 days of lugging that crap around on ice for 10 hour duty days I feel like eating any of it is rolling the dice on some mid flight Dirty D.
 
JordanD said:
Yup. My biggest pet peeve is hearing, usually from FAs, "I love this hotel it's next to a mall and there's a ton of restaurants like Olive Garden and Red Robin!"
"You can't eat those at home whenever you want?"

That or trying to get us kicked out of hotels for lack of a fridge/microwave in the room. I get it, eating out is expensive, but I'll take a good location with good restaurants any day of the week. I've never had a hotel fridge keep my stuff cold enough on a 4 day that I wasn't afraid to eat it later anyway.
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Wait, you call me a rabid slam clicker and that "I like peanut butter and tuna fish sandwiches, I don't see why people don't just eat it."

Yet you you are now calling out others like FAs who want hotels that have fridge/microwaves in rooms? "I like outside food and spending money on that, I don't see why people don't choose to eat like me and pack instead."

Yes, I like hotels near malls and Olive Gardens, TGI, Dennys, and Subways. ;) Malls at least guarantee you several places to eat, stores, a chance to pick something up you might need, and maybe a movie theater. Anyway next time you fly with the average pilot in their 50s and 60s, look at their weight and see their eating habits on a 4-day trip. The healthy ones, I'm not saying they pack food for 4 days, but when they are on the road they eat very healthily. If you are finding yourself enjoying steak (red meat) on a routine basis in this job, you're not doing it right.

"I love this hotel it's next to a mall and there's a ton of restaurants like Olive Garden and Red Robin!"
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If you're a *real* airline pilot, you say "Olive Garden is kinda pricey for me, can we do Dennys instead?" ;) J/K

Edit: When I look at what FAs make, I don't blame them for wanting to pack food and save money on the road.
 
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JordanD said:
Yup. My biggest pet peeve is hearing, usually from FAs, "I love this hotel it's next to a mall and there's a ton of restaurants like Olive Garden and Red Robin!"
"You can't eat those at home whenever you want?"

That or trying to get us kicked out of hotels for lack of a fridge/microwave in the room. I get it, eating out is expensive, but I'll take a good location with good restaurants any day of the week. I've never had a hotel fridge keep my stuff cold enough on a 4 day that I wasn't afraid to eat it later anyway.
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There’s a Bennigan’s in San Salvador... Haven’t seen one of those stateside in a long, long time.


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Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Wait, you call me a rabid slam clicker and that "I like peanut butter and tuna fish sandwiches, I don't see why people don't just eat it."

Yet you you are now calling out others like FAs who want hotels that have fridge/microwaves in rooms? "I like outside food and spending money on that, I don't see why people don't choose to eat like me and pack instead."

Yes, I like hotels near malls and Olive Gardens, TGI, Dennys, and Subways. ;) Malls at least guarantee you several places to eat, stores, a chance to pick something up you might need, and maybe a movie theater. Anyway next time you fly with the average pilot in their 50s and 60s, look at their weight and see their eating habits on a 4-day trip. The healthy ones, I'm not saying they pack food for 4 days, but when they are on the road they eat very healthily. If you are finding yourself enjoying steak (red meat) on a routine basis in this job, you're not doing it right.



If you're a *real* airline pilot, you say "Olive Garden is kinda pricey for me, can we do Dennys instead?" ;) J/K

Edit: When I look at what FAs make, I don't blame them for wanting to pack food and save money on the road.
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I struggle to see why anybody would want to spend a majority of their life traveling and only want to visit the same chain stuff in every city, but that's just me. I respect people wanting to pocket their per diem, but it's per diem for a reason. If enough people are loud enough about "I pocket all my per diem!" in theory why would the company ever have an incentive to raise it?

Also, portion control is a wonderful thing.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Wait, you call me a rabid slam clicker and that "I like peanut butter and tuna fish sandwiches, I don't see why people don't just eat it."

Yet you you are now calling out others like FAs who want hotels that have fridge/microwaves in rooms? "I like outside food and spending money on that, I don't see why people don't choose to eat like me and pack instead."

Yes, I like hotels near malls and Olive Gardens, TGI, Dennys, and Subways. ;) Malls at least guarantee you several places to eat, stores, a chance to pick something up you might need, and maybe a movie theater. Anyway next time you fly with the average pilot in their 50s and 60s, look at their weight and see their eating habits on a 4-day trip. The healthy ones, I'm not saying they pack food for 4 days, but when they are on the road they eat very healthily. If you are finding yourself enjoying steak (red meat) on a routine basis in this job, you're not doing it right.



If you're a *real* airline pilot, you say "Olive Garden is kinda pricey for me, can we do Dennys instead?" ;) J/K

Edit: When I look at what FAs make, I don't blame them for wanting to pack food and save money on the road.
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I don’t blame them for wanting to pack food either. I pack food too but the difference is, I won’t complain if there’s no fridge or microwave in the room. I walk downstairs to the lobby or crew room and heat up my food. You know like actually go outside my room. I don’t think there’s any hotel that doesn’t have a microwave or fridge on property. It may require one to venture outside of the room which may be tough for some people!
 
Saw this in my FB feed.... totally captures the current spirit of the conversation.
 

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JordanD said:
Oh man, I remember when that was a big thing back in the 90s.
"Hey look, I went to 10 different cities but ate the same thing at the same crappy chain restaurant and got this oversized T shirt at every one!"
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Accompanied by the picture you had the waiter take of your table meant you were "well traveled."
 
JordanD said:
Oh man, I remember when that was a big thing back in the 90s.
"Hey look, I went to 10 different cities but ate the same thing at the same crappy chain restaurant and got this oversized T shirt at every one!"
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When you live in Europe for years at a time it is the only sure safe bet on getting a real American Hamburger.... and not some messed up interpretation.

Now if only there was a good international chain of Mexican Restaurants....


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