While I shouldn't judge since I wasn't there, I'll go out on a limb and suggest that the pilot may have been showing "solidarity" with his flight crew.

On that note, too bad you didn't pursue the FA who pulled this. You could have written in to get her on the path to being relieved of a job she's clearly not cut out for. And I don't want to hear this whining bullshiit nonsense about, "The FA's have it tough these days, waah, waah, waah." That's their goddammed job. It's their job to be on the ball and to be on the up and up, which means *not* going to lunatic extremes with crying to the front office at every little thing or even sarcastic passenger, all the more BECAUSE OF and NOT in spite of, the situation as of late. If they don't have the wherewithal to maintain their professionalism, even-mindedness, and above all sense of customer-orientation, then they should just get the hell out.

9-11 is NOT an excuse for lapses of attention to professionalism. It is a clarion call to renew and redefine it.

If you can't take the heat...

[This message has been edited by ETOPS01 (edited 12-22-2001).]