Slam Click Excuse?

[dasleben]

Divergence in the crew sometimes.

I'd fly to Brussels and everyone said "Irish bar!" and I'd rather go find some hole in the wall.

Or in Rome where the other two guys wanted to go to this bar that was owned by a Canadian where all of the cockpit crews met to go watch recorded American sports, drink Guinness and talk "shop". Or passing some amazing amazing German beer halls enroute to go eat mediocre pizza at some place where the stews proclaim, "Oh, they're so FRIENDLY y'all!" by the mall.

Ehh… I'd rather be "that guy", ditch the group and have a local experience rather than sit at a TGI Fridays in Greece hearing about your golf game.

Reminds me of the JetLag in Narita. Head over there if you want to drink and talk airplanes with a bunch of pilots. Woohoo...

 

[Seggy]

Is that the place with the annoying dog?

 

[Cav]

I just had a great 4 day with awesome crews and long layovers in cool places. On night three, I was pooped! I "wussed out" on the last night. They gave me a hard time about it, but I felt a lot better than they did in the morning!!!

@Toobdrvr this isn't directed at you because as you stated you had long layovers. I'm going to be that guy though. If crews show up to work the next day fatigued because of their overnight activities, doesn't that point to a high degree of irresponsibility? There's a difference between schedule fatigue and self inflicted fatigue. When I started doing longer haul flying through multiple time zones (even just transcons) I figured out real quick that sometimes you have to get rest when you're tired because the opportunity may not present itself as your original plan intended.

 

[Cav]

Is that the place with the annoying dog?

Is that what they are calling 744 crews these days? (Please note heavy dose of sarcasm)