I'd just like to say that the crews that I have had to work with recently have been courteous and polite and have not taken it over to the ground staff, thanks for that guys.
Jetfrog have to disagree that the Flt Deck are the only non expendable employees in an airline, no doubt they are important/essential but so are others see the following for another debate on this (although kaptain m has gone very quiet)
http://www.pprune.org/cgibin/ultimat...7&t=001804&p=6