Boycot Flightplan?

mtsu_av8er said:
That has to be one of the dumbest things I've heard all day.



It's a freaking MOVIE!!!! Some people are just too full of themselves.

I'm a union fan, but I can't support this silly move.

Aren't there other battles they can be fighting? If this is as good as it gets . . .:confused:
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Thank you. It's sort of like the new "War on Pornography" that's been announced. I'm so glad they got Bin Laden so we can concentrate on the =really= important stuff like searching for WMTs - Weapons of Mass-Turbation.
 
She said the portrayal of airline cabin crew members as evil-doers adds further insult to long-standing Hollywood stereotypes that have depicted flight attendants as sexualized bubble heads or as harsh, humorless disciplinarians.[/quote/

People are always sterotyped in movies:

Italians people always belong to the Mafia
Business owners are usually portrayed as greedy bastards
Police are always shown getting into car accidents
According to hollywood, I think that every black person in the world can play basketball
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Doug Taylor said:
My other favorite.

Someone asks my captain during a dead head leg a few years ago:

Passenger: "Are you a pilot?"

Captain: (smiles) "No! But, shhh! Good lookin' uniform though, eh?"

Passenger: "It looks real!"
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Dude, I'd totally answer the same way.

"Nope, I just like putting on this polyester uniform that reeks of deicing fluid and Jet-A because the chicks dig it. So what can I do for you?"
 
None of those stupid comments really piss me off. I just laugh, and brush them off. What does rub me the wrong way is when passengers, or even gate agents, ask if I'm a flight attendant. In uniform no less. I can see commuting in a polo and khakis, if they'd say "pilot or F/A jumpseater?" But when I'm standing there with wings and stripes, I mean, :sitaware: . Commuting the other day, I had a passenger come back to where I was sitting (last row) and say, "Sir I need a drink of water." I politely said, "Well the flight attendant should be back in a minute, she can help. I'm a pilot, and can't go rooting through her galley." He shoots me a dirty look, turns around and starts muttering stuff about "worthless airline." That, or when people try to hand me their trash as I'm walking with my bags to the back to find my seat. Then get pissed as I don't take it while both hands are full of bags. I'm not taking that diaper miss, sorry. :rolleyes:
 
Hey! I was jumpseating from ORD to MCO years ago and some passenger literally took the newspaper out of my hand as I was headed back to my seat.
 
That's insane.

FlyChicaga said:
None of those stupid comments really piss me off. I just laugh, and brush them off. What does rub me the wrong way is when passengers, or even gate agents, ask if I'm a flight attendant. In uniform no less. I can see commuting in a polo and khakis, if they'd say "pilot or F/A jumpseater?" But when I'm standing there with wings and stripes, I mean, :sitaware: . Commuting the other day, I had a passenger come back to where I was sitting (last row) and say, "Sir I need a drink of water." I politely said, "Well the flight attendant should be back in a minute, she can help. I'm a pilot, and can't go rooting through her galley." He shoots me a dirty look, turns around and starts muttering stuff about "worthless airline." That, or when people try to hand me their trash as I'm walking with my bags to the back to find my seat. Then get pissed as I don't take it while both hands are full of bags. I'm not taking that diaper miss, sorry. :rolleyes:
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You are a patient man and I envy you for it. I would go nuts!
 
FlyChicaga said:
Commuting the other day, I had a passenger come back to where I was sitting (last row) and say, "Sir I need a drink of water." I politely said, "Well the flight attendant should be back in a minute, she can help. I'm a pilot, and can't go rooting through her galley." He shoots me a dirty look, turns around and starts muttering stuff about "worthless airline."
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You should have snagged a cup from the galley and filled it with the potable from the sink in the lav.

Evil? Oh yeah. Fun? Heck yeah!
 
I find it curious that pilots are seeing it as no big deal that a movie with a portrayal of a F/A as a terrorist is no big deal, but the movie where the pilot was portrayed as a womanizer DID irritate. So, how would you feel if the plot of the movie was that the pilot was the terrorist?

Seriously, it's just a movie, but as a F/A I do hate to see the 'ole standby F/A stereotype yet again. I probably won't see the movie, I haven't seen many movies at all lately, and I've got better things to do than get up in arms about some movie. Aviary ticked me off because it was advertised as being SO "true to life", and "the REAL life of a F/A", and it was no such thing.

Issuing a formal bycott is silly. When you get down to it, it's just a movie. It's fiction, it's a story. Whatever.

As for the stuped/thoughtless things pax have done to me over the years, well, let's just say you'll have to 'wait for the book'. As there's way too much to put in one post!

But, for conversation's sake here's my favorite:
When I was commuting, trying to use a computer at an *unused* gate (that is a gate where there is no airplane parked, no flight going out, no working agents anywhere) and people would come up to me and get pissy about their connections/luggage/seat assignments/whatever. I would just politely say "I'm sorry sir/maam, I'm not an agent, I'm a flight attendant, I can't help you. If you go down to an active gate I'm sure an agent would be glad to help you". As I'm standing there with my big gold wings on my chest and my bags parked next to me. Agents don't have luggage and wear wings people! I'm just trying to get home!
 
MQAAord said:
I find it curious that pilots are seeing it as no big deal that a movie with a portrayal of a F/A as a terrorist is no big deal, but the movie where the pilot was portrayed as a womanizer DID irritate. So, how would you feel if the plot of the movie was that the pilot was the terrorist?
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I wasn't irritated by Frequent Flyer. In fact, I kid of enjoyed it! I thought that it was pretty funny, and mildy entertaining. It didn't bother me because it was a movie! Kind of hard to be bothered by make-believe . . .

If the movie had a pilot as the terrorist, I'd probably watch it. Neat concept - after all, it's make-believe!
 
I think there is a difference in portraying someone as a terrorist, and perpetuating a myth that fills the minds of our significant others in some manner every day... a myth that many of us try to put to rest. A pilot as a terrorist? OK, that's cool. A pilot as a womanizer, with women in every city? Oh man, how many times have I been asked if I do that? :rolleyes:
 
MQAAord said:
I find it curious that pilots are seeing it as no big deal that a movie with a portrayal of a F/A as a terrorist is no big deal, but the movie where the pilot was portrayed as a womanizer DID irritate. So, how would you feel if the plot of the movie was that the pilot was the terrorist?
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In the movie "Swat", pilots not only hijacked a Corporate Aircraft, but, were also hired to transport a know terrorist outside the country.

Would imagine that Doug must be getting tired of watching aviation movies where the pilot is normally an older white male with grey/white hair...

The Black pilot that I saw in a movie, was Snoop Dogg!
 
FlyChicaga said:
I'm not taking that diaper miss, sorry. :rolleyes:
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The F/As don't take the diapers, either. They'll tell the pax to put it in the lav trash because it's unsanitary.

It's like handing a server in a restaurant your bag of dog poop. You don't want someone who's serving food and drinks touching a dirty diaper, so why do pax think they can hand an F/A a dirty diaper?:banghead:

Don't forget about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar! He was Roger Murdock. He's The Co-Pilot!
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The hell I don't!! Listen kid! I've been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA. I'm out there busting my buns every night. Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes.
 
I had an old lady literally sneeze on me yesterday while deplaning. Then she put me in an akward position by wanting to shake my hand to thank me for a 'nice flight'.

Eww. Eww. Eww.
 
Sneezes on you? Nice. Though I can top that. I've been puked on.

As for dirty diapers, speaking as a mother there's NO WAY in heck I'd try to hand someone, ANYONE, a diaper that's been on my kid's bottom already. That's just nasty in so many ways. Dirty diapers go from my hand straight to the trash or into a disposable blue plastic scented bag and back into my diaper bag until such time as I find a trash can. Leaving a diaper anywhere but in a trash can or trying to give it to someone is just tactless and gross.
 
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