Then there was the AWA captain who asked me what equipment I flew and I answered, "The 767." He responded disparagingly, "Now, that is the little one, isn't it?" (I am sure that he knew that all of ours were -200s.) I said, "Yeah, that is the one that can fly [ten hours] to Athens."
I've jumpseated very little with west crews. It hasn't been worth having to put up with some of their comments and rudeness. Not all, of course. Some have been very nice. I had one captain tell me that he had to ask his first officer. Are you kidding me? I had never heard that from any captain. How can they ever expect SLI to work?
Other airlines have been very good to me. Thank you for that, captains and crews.