I’ve been sitting ready reserve at the airport for the past several days. The excitement in the crew room started yesterday with an email indicating that 100 CRJ captains and 80 CRJ FO’s are likely to be displaced. Exactly what this means is a bit up in the air, and it sure sounds like some…
I woke up this morning at some point before Sydney’s movers arrived. I’d landed at DCA at 3am night before last, so an 11am flight seemed awfully early. Sydney’s belongings and I both left Brevoort Place at the same time. Sydney’s living in Park Slope now, and I have a dirty, unfinished apartment in Bed-Stuy…
One either has things to blog about or time to blog, but the two seem to be mutually exclusive. Things always go wrong when I fly with Matt. Last time I flew with Matt, we had a maintenance divert. When I met him yesterday evening in the crew room, he asked, “How’s it going?” “Well,…
Maybe forever. The worst part? I’m not going to get home tonight. I was supposed to fly IAD-ATL-IAD-JFK today. I got up this morning too early and as I was about to head down to the lobby for a 7:00am shuttle to the airport, my phone rang. Crew tracking was letting me know that our…