DTW baggage check crash

Minuteman said:
If someone in aviation doesn’t like or hasn’t seen “Airplane!”, they are not to be trusted.
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I was waiting to non rev over to Kona last night and some guy was walking up to passengers with some kind of pamphlet and trying to talk to them. Not sure what it was actually for (I told him to f off when he walked up to me and my wife) but it looked like the scene inside the Check in area in Airplane!.... minus the MMA stuff.
 
Hammertime said:
I used to drop Back to the Future lines at door close...

"Let's make like a tree and get outta here!"

I gave up. Mostly blank stares. Occasionally an awkward chuckle.
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I should add some Back to the Future stuff. On Day 1, Leg 1 I will drop various Airplane!, Star Wars (ep 4-6), Futurama, and Mel Brooks references. If the FO doesn't get any of them we cannot be friends and I will spend the rest of the trip quietly judging their lack of proper edification.
 
Karnage said:
I weep when I meet an FO, drop a line from the movie, and get blank stares more vacant than my orange cat trying to do calculus back in return. We're doomed.
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It is funny when I quote a line from a movie and get a laugh because of its random nature or funny timing, only to realize they don’t know the reference.

Among my favorites:

“Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”

“My girlfriend sucked 37 dicks.”

“I can't fire them. I hired these guys for three days a week, and they just started showing up every day.

“ I will now sell five copies of "The Three EPs" by The Beta Band.”

“ If you really wanted to screw me up, you should've gotten to me earlier.”

“The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.”

“We need to talk about your TPS reports.”

“You heard me, Coltrane.”

“Do all the interns get Glocks?”

“I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career.”

My favorite that leaves folks confused and I don’t care to explain:

“Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it.”
 
Hammertime said:
I used to drop Back to the Future lines at door close...

"Let's make like a tree and get outta here!"

I gave up. Mostly blank stares. Occasionally an awkward chuckle.
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It’s hard to do the 1.21 jiggawatts line without the proper arm flail that Christopher Lloyd perfected.
 
Richman said:
jiggawatts
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See, this was Christopher Lloyd pronouncing gigawatts with a soft 'G' like you're supposed to with "GIF".

It's just that the movie came out in a time when the general public wasn't dealing-with and wasn't conversant in terms of 10⁹.

Now it's all jigglebits and terabytes.
 
what is interesting is all the barriers to prevent a car from driving into the terminal failed easily. seemed to be there for show only. TMK those things are there to prevent exactly what happened.

In other news I have the same issue with newer FO's. No personality, don't want to talk, don't know any of the classic movies and slam click. They carry a giant ass softside yetti cooler...
 
Bandit_Driver said:
In other news I have the same issue with newer FO's. No personality, don't want to talk, don't know any of the classic movies and slam click. They carry a giant ass softside yetti cooler...
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Took a relatively new guy out to eat recently on two of our overnights. Bought dinner both times. He couldn’t believe I was willing to do that, and how he schlepped meals to save money. Had to explain that we get paid almost $80/day to eat and that he doesn’t have to live off Cliff bars and airplane snacks anymore. I know an FO with dietary restrictions and I totally get carrying food for health reasons. But yeesh, eat something please. I don’t want FOs passing out from starvation, too much paperwork!
 
Karnage said:
Took a relatively new guy out to eat recently on two of our overnights. Bought dinner both times. He couldn’t believe I was willing to do that, and how he schlepped meals to save money. Had to explain that we get paid almost $80/day to eat and that he doesn’t have to live off Cliff bars and airplane snacks anymore. I know an FO with dietary restrictions and I totally get carrying food for health reasons. But yeesh, eat something please. I don’t want FOs passing out from starvation, too much paperwork!
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My goal is to spend my per diem and eat a max of 1 airplane meal every day. Also try as many off brand coffee shops as possible.
 
I used to travel a lot because I was a field tech (traveling mechanic) and we were just issued company credit cards, I don't recall any actual limit per day but I did hear of folks getting told to slow down with their meals. The company had outsourced a service for scheduling travel but I ignored that option and always booked my own flights and hotels, this seemed unpopular with my superiors. I wasn't eating at Ruth's Chris every night and I wasn't staying at the Ritz Carlton, but I also wasn't eating McDonalds and sleeping at the Motel 6 next to the rail yard either. I never tried to bank per diem because it didn't exist. We did have a guy go to Barrow Alaska once and the bean counters lost their minds until the situation there was explained to them.
 
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