Originally Posted by
Flying_Scotsman
I'm disappointed that all the responses to this are negative. What do you believe your job to be as an airline pilot? Is it just to fly to aircraft or do you have some responsibility for the "walk on freight"? If the latter then when do you now get a chance to interact with them, other than when you are delayed on the ground and can open the flight deck to visitors? Know your audience might be applicable?
Surely this is just a wind up? Concentrating on our job of safely flying the “walk on freight” is what the passengers want and is the ultimate responsibility. As if they give a f### about you checking them in and putting a tag on their bag.
Pay us extra if we now have to do some completely different job that takes our focus away from the more important job of being a professional pilot. This isn’t GA.