Pilots at Southwest Airlines are said to be in a feud with their peers at United Airlines after a recently hired United Airlines who was using a jumpseat on a Southwest plane to commute to work reported the pilots to the FAA safety hotline.
A pilot at United has explained the situation in a now-viral social media post which was picked up by aviation insider Jon NYC on X, explaining that the United ‘jumpseater’ notified the FAA of the “inadequacies of the crew hose jumpseat they graciously offered”.
“Please mentor our newer hires on how to jumpseat properly and keep your damn mouth shut,” the leaked post continued. “At the very least, if you see something incorrect or wrong, very politely query the crew, if you feel you must, and let them explain themselves.”
The post then says that pilots who still feel uneasy about what they witnessed in the flight deck should first approach their union’s safety management team because…