Mesa votes no

wheelsup said:
I do :).

I've been fully assimilated into the #mainline culture.

"Yeah we get back at 7 so I'm gonna get on the first commuter flight at 8:30"

I found it's just easier when you're working with people twice your age to learn the jargon they are used to using instead of forcing new stuff on them.
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There's a lot of truth to this.

At the end of the day, regardless I mean irregardless of what our egos say, the general public and a grand majority of your professional cohorts are going to call them "commuters".

"I'm going to run over to the B concourse and hop on my (regional/small jet/FFD) flight to Dallas" - said no one ever.

"Look! It's Peter Dinklage! He's that guy stricken with achondroplasia caused by a mutation on chromosome 4!"
 
Derg said:
Every thread?
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Derg said:
There's a lot of truth to this.

At the end of the day, regardless I mean irregardless of what our egos say, the general public and a grand majority of your professional cohorts are going to call them "commuters".

"I'm going to run over to the B concourse and hop on my (regional/small jet/FFD) flight to Dallas" - said no one ever.

"Look! It's Peter Dinklage! He's that guy stricken with achondroplasia caused by a mutation on chromosome 4!"
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Peter Dinklage... a pretty cool actor, but he sure got hit with a double whammy in life: his size, and a name that sounds like an STD symptom.
 
Derg said:
There's a lot of truth to this.

At the end of the day, regardless I mean irregardless of what our egos say, the general public and a grand majority of your professional cohorts are going to call them "commuters".

"I'm going to run over to the B concourse and hop on my (regional/small jet/FFD) flight to Dallas" - said no one ever.

"Look! It's Peter Dinklage! He's that guy stricken with achondroplasia caused by a mutation on chromosome 4!"
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I don't understand the pilots who get their panties in a bunch over the term "commuter airline" any more than I understand pilots who wet their panties over the term "copilot".

Folks need to get a little thicker skin.
 
wheelsup said:
I do :).

I've been fully assimilated into the #mainline culture.

"Yeah we get back at 7 so I'm gonna get on the first commuter flight at 8:30"

I found it's just easier when you're working with people twice your age to learn the jargon they are used to using instead of forcing new stuff on them.
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You're not fully assimilated unless you ask every "commuter" pilot if they have their application in and when their interview is, unless you wear dad pants and a red polo on layovers with black socks and white sneakers, and, eh, I could go on I guess, but the point is made. :D
 
Hacker15e said:
I don't understand the pilots who get their panties in a bunch over the term "commuter airline" any more than I understand pilots who wet their panties over the term "copilot".

Folks need to get a little thicker skin.
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So, what about being a copilot at a commuter airline? A bunch of wet panties?
 
Hacker15e said:
I don't understand the pilots who get their panties in a bunch over the term "commuter airline" any more than I understand pilots who wet their panties over the term "copilot". Folks need to get a little thicker skin.
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Just don't call them a stew.....
 
ComplexHiAv8r said:
Just don't call them a stew.....
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My mom was a Stew for a major airline in the 1960s.

I recently was discussing her experiences with her and used the term "flight attendant" at one point, which garnered a strong reaction; "I was NOT a 'flight attendant' -- I was a 'stewardess' and damn proud to be one!" She went on to talk about needing to be a nurse and bilingual to be competitive to get hired, and that it was an extremely glamorous and highly respected job, and that she was happier the day that she was hired as a stew than she was the day she walked across the stage graduating with a degree as a Registered Nurse. Although she went on to have a 40-year, very successful career as a nurse in a very technical specialty, she said she still considers being a stew one of the highlights of her working career.

Bottom line, she does not at all get why folks consider the term somehow sexist or demeaning, because it sure is a term of pride for her.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
You're not fully assimilated unless you ask every "commuter" pilot if they have their application in and when their interview is, unless you wear dad pants and a red polo on layovers with black socks and white sneakers, and, eh, I could go on I guess, but the point is made. :D
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Don't forget the webbed belt.
 
ComplexHiAv8r said:
Just don't call them a stew.....
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We had a stint of time when we'd call the lead st.. lead flight attendant an "OnBoard Leader" where often times, with the wrong lead fight attendant, one would have to remind them they weren't Captains and that lead to all sorts of odd situations.

One involved some back and forth with the captain before a crossing to Europe that ended up with a "step out in the jetway, bring your things and meet the supervisor and your replacement".

If everyone is in command, no one is in command.
 
Ruck said:

... :aghast:

I can't even stop the reaction when I know it's deliberate trollin', damn it!!
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It was a deliberate error, you know, for all intensive purposes.

I actually had a flight attendant tell me that "you run the cockpit, I run the cabin".

I stopped, said, "In doing my job, I need to ask that you understand who is in ultimate command of the entire aircraft and there's only one right answer".

Solved that one pretty quick.
 
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