Muppet501st
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Don't off duty pilots remove their stripes when paxing ?
I had also wondered whether the pilot was a QF employee. Maybe not.
Don't off duty pilots remove their stripes when paxing ?
Don't off duty pilots remove their stripes when paxing ?
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Well I have certainly seen QF flight crew in uniform in Y.
Once I even saw a QF pilot let a FA sit in J and he went back to Y.Could have knocked my socks off.
Why do you say he 'let'? He may have had no choice.
Just an experience I had last week. Nothing crazy or dangerous but just a bit disappointing really.
I boarded my flight reasonably early and sat in the aisle seat. The middle seat stayed empty but there was an off duty pilot (3 stripes?) in the window seat talking on his mobile. He talked for about 20 minutes until shortly before closing the final door and his conversation was littered with swear words. Now I'm not a shrinking violet myself in this matter and personally I wasn't offended but I was somewhat disappointed that someone representing their company ('brand') at the highest level behaved in an uncouth manner. I wasn't listening in particularly but his tone was rather bullying to the person on the other end (I think his romantic interest). Otherwise he was a model passenger. Staff treated him as an elite as you'd expect with all the extras from the cart (well not that much) and called him 'brother' and 'mate'.
I wouldn't make a formal complaint about something like this because I wasn't offended by the language but I would think the airline would hold its staff to a certain standard of behaviour in public as they represent the company and wouldn't be all that happy.
What do others think? Am I too picky? The rest of us who don't wear uniforms can get away with it I guess.
I didn't consider making a complaint because I wasn't offended per se. I was thinking that it wasn't a good look for the airline and if it had been someone else sitting where I was sitting perhaps they may have made a complaint. My angle is that if you are in uniform you are representing what that uniform stands for so be on your best behaviour. If that wasn't drummed into most of us enough at school I don't know what else was.
I am going to just think he was having a bad day and leave it at that.
There may be occasions when pilots have literally just landed having operated a flight in to a city then pax back on duty on the next flight so they would be trying to get to the gate and board asap. Other times they may be paxing on duty to position to a port then have to operate immediately out of that city and therefore still have the gold bars on.Don't off duty pilots remove their stripes when paxing ?
... If the staff were calling him 'brother' or 'mate' I thinks that was just some kind of acknowledgement that he's in the same industry not any kind of confirmation he's a colleague with that airline ...
Standard industry practice within Australia, is that when flying on other work duties - pilots are seated in Economy.I thought they would have automatically been moved to J?
Qantas is the only major domestic airline left with archaic work policies that require pilots to be seated in Business Class.
Standard industry practice within Australia, is that when flying on other work duties - pilots are seated in Economy.
Qantas is the only major domestic airline left with archaic work policies that require pilots to be seated in Business Class.