Captains with Captains is always a sticky issue within an airline environment.
Where we operate we have a large number of captains from many varied parts of the world and the experiences of flying with several have been amusing to say the least.
Bad Examples:
After day 2 of a 7 day trip one captain was at the point of killing the other due to his poor procedural adherence. (the poor one later jumped before he was pushed).
Non attentive attitude by two “mates” who had not flown together in 15+ years, missed calls and the such, however they did enjoy the time.
One captain caught up on about 4 months sleep during a co-captain stint according to the others report.
Cultural differences played a big part where one European “work orientated” captain was dismayed by the Latin “Social orientated” captain putting pleasure before work.
Good Examples:
Positive outlook by both crew members, highly experienced and when the faeces and fan met the handled the situation impeccably where the capabilities of some of our FO’s would have been lacking.
Opportunity to escape from the norm. Days where you fly leg for leg switching seats and enjoying the experience of learning something as opposed to “teaching” something.
Many other instances however these are more a social nature, as an expat in a foreign land it is sometimes hard to catch up with “the boys” when people are rostered all over the place.
My thoughts are that there is the good with the bad and crewing needs to roster people of the same ilk to get a good result and avoid cultural or attitudinal problems.