"LeeNY" wrote:
>Rosalie B. wrote:
>
>> My question would be - is the helicopter pilot a customarily tipped
>> position? And if it is, why? I don't expect to tip the flight crew
>> on an airliner.
>
>Flight crews on airliners are not customarily tipped...it's not
>regarded as a profession where tipping is expected or where tips are
>extended. Tour guides (and I would probably include the pilot in this)
>do generally get tipped...at least by me. That is, unless the pilot is
>also the owner of the operation. I don't believe tips are customarily
>extended to owners of businesses where tipping is expected.
That doesn't seem to be the case anymore. At least, I do tip my
hairdresser - she seems to expect it even though she owns the shop.
>
>> I know that tour guides expect tips, and sometimes we do and sometimes
>> we don't depending on how we feel about the job they do.
>
>I always try to recognize the hard work of tour guides with a monetary
>acknowledgement.
>
Sometimes I think they don't deserve anything because they haven't
done any work, have lied to me or have given out bogus information
that I KNOW is false.
>Yes, a tip on $1000 tour would be considerable. But, if it's
>established that the pilot is deserving of a tip, he should hardly be
>penalized in the tip amount because of the price of the tour (a price
>he didn't set, and doesn't necessarily benefit from). At a pricey
>restaurant, do you set yourself a limit as to how much you're willing
>to tip, regardless of the cost of the meal? I just don't think the high
If I am in a pricey restaurant (which I try to avoid), I don't order
anything that I can't afford and that keeps the tip within what I
think would be reasonable. It sometimes makes the server annoyed when
we don't order expensive drinks, and that adversely affects what tip
they would have gotten if they had actually gone on ahead and given us
good service even though we weren't ordering the most expensive stuff
on the menu.
Actually, I think the servers in less expensive restaurants deserve a
higher percentage tip than the ones in expensive restaurants do. They
do just as much work.
>price of the helicopter tour should influence how much of a tip is
>extended to the tour guide...that is, if in the end, it's established
>that this is a tipped position.
>
>Lee
How would you establish that this is a tipped position?
I took a seaplane from Key West to the Dry Tortugas and the pilot had
a sign in the plane saying that tips were welcome. I didn't have
anything except a $20 bill with me and I didn't feel like giving him
that much, so I bought a post card to get change. But in the end,
there was a fault in the engine of the plane, so I had to come back in
the ferry and he didn't get his tip.
>> We always tip in restaurants (in the US) and we do it kind of like
>> someone else in the thread said - always over 15% unless the service
>> is lousy or they have some kind of mandatory service charge. If
>> there's a charge on the ticket, we leave it at that and don't tip
>> extra.
>>
>>
>> >> Bill
>> >> "McR" wrote in message
>> >> news:10819-442B1E4A-165@storefull-3335.bay.webtv.net...
>> >> > Booked a helicopter tour in Alaska this summer. What is the appropriate
>> >> > tip for a group of four? Can't see 20 percent of a thousand bucks!
>> >> >
>>
>> grandma Rosalie
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