For the benefit of "Alanmac" and anyone else who found my remark about the FR crew standing around the bus stop looking like "Albanian refugees" arrogant.
As a lad I remember seeing the Pan Am Atlantic Barons coming out of the limo at PIK having hotaced at Turnberry Hotel (where the staff knew them by name)As they strolled out to their 707's I recal thinking they looked pretty cool .(I was just a lad!) I was merely highlighting the difference to todays scene.
If that's arrogance so be it, but I feel it's more a sad reflection of how times have changed for the Airline Pilot.
Clear enough?