Right Seat Captains

cencal83406 said:
We have an FA who doesn't like to share a wall with her crews. She will physically push you out of the way if you try to "get" that room on the hotel sheet.
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How the hell do they figure out which rooms are the golden ones to snag?

Jesus...
 
cencal83406 said:
I generally do things like grab crew bags out of the overheads or fill in hotel info because I'm nice.

I had an FA ask if I'd called the hotel yet, because it was my job to do so. I laughed... and waited for someone other than me to call the hotel.

The trip I just finished... CA says he has to FedEx himself home. I ask how he is getting to FedEx. He tells me cab. I offered and ended up taking him to FedEx before continuing my journey home.

Not trying to get any special points... I just notice it is a lot easier to be nice when niceness isn't a demand or a given.
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Yup. I like doing all the stuff mentioned. But when I come in to the lobby last because my bad was at the bottom of the pile and everyone is just standing there waiting to do the paperwork...that's a different story.
 
surreal1221 said:
How the hell do they figure out which rooms are the golden ones to snag?

Jesus...
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Some people really care about that crap. It's amazing. I guess if you go to the same overnight enough you learn what rooms are nice. If given the choice, I try to be as far way from the FAs as possible. Other than that I don't care.
 
PhilosopherPilot said:
Some people really care about that crap. It's amazing. I guess if you go to the same overnight enough you learn what rooms are nice. If given the choice, I try to be as far way from the FAs as possible. Other than that I don't care.
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Ugh. Makes me think of the short SAV. Walls are like paper. I've heard every single one of my crew members phone calls.

We could seriously just give the middle room a wake up call and call it good.
 
PhilosopherPilot said:
At my airlines the FO was kindof expected to full out the check-in paperwork.
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That's unfortunate. Where I work, it's pretty much whoever gets to it first - CA, FO, or FAs. I will say our FAs are pretty awesome about jumping right in and doing it, but for the most part we all try to take turns and thank whoever gets to it first.
 
cencal83406 said:
I generally do things like grab crew bags out of the overheads or fill in hotel info because I'm nice.
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I'm not nice about this kind of thing. If you brought it, you lug it or learn how to pack. It's bad enough that I have to pack for 5 days of reserve, I'm not touching a FA's steamer trunk of junk and throwing out my back. Our insurance stinks and I don't want hernia surgery.

On my last red eye, after getting in 15 late, waiting over 20 min for the hotel van, and Mr. Toad's Wild ride to the day-sleep hotel I watched as the 3 FA's dithered over the rooms for about 10 minutes. Hay-zeus H. Christos on a cracker - all five of us have been up all night and I just wanted to go to bed and every one of those rooms is either identical or a mirror image. Take a random key, and write down your name, your ID #, and your wake up call and move on.

I won't even get into how bad it is when we have a 'extended stay' or long layover at the beach or something - when the 'special requests' and room changes start. I just grab a key and go.

In an ideal world, I would like a room that has the two full beds. (I like to pile on the blankets and make the room a costco freezer.) I also don't want to share a wall with another member of my crew. (Just in case my inner child wants to jump on the bed. Or, if I'm going to facetime loudly with my daughter. Or, in a worst case scenario, I hear someone else tandem testing the structural integrity of most of their hotel room furniture.)
 
GypsyPilot said:
That's unfortunate. Where I work, it's pretty much whoever gets to it first - CA, FO, or FAs. I will say our FAs are pretty awesome about jumping right in and doing it, but for the most part we all try to take turns and thank whoever gets to it first.
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I try to split that duty as much as is practical (most Bro people pass it around), but today, I happened to get there first.

And the room does matter if you're in MOD. Of course, we don't go there anymore, so never mind.
 
PhilosopherPilot said:
The FO has to print the pairings? Damn! That's even worse than the sign-in sheet.
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Yup. Because when the flight attendants are checking in on the computer it would be too hard to click print. I've heard this carries over from piedmont back in the day. The look on a flight attendants face when they ask for a pairing and you tell them you didn't print one is priceless.
 
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