Oh Canada

I dunno.

If I was going from Denver to somewhere I might want a wheelchair in Denver but not need one at the far end, or if I was going from an airport I wasn't familiar with to an airport that I was I might get the chair just in case but then not need it to walk to my car or whatever, so I don't think this is nearly as nefarious as everybody thinks it is.
 
USMCmech said:
I’ve read a few scenarios where Alberta secedes from Canada and starts a chain of events where the US gains 6-8 new states.
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Is this the same scenario where eastern Washington splits off to become a new State?

6-8 new States would really throw a wrench in and already screwed up political arena!
 
SOO many failures.

The part that gets me is where they told him that he HAD to get off under his own power:
”Or what!?”
”We’ll have you forcibly removed!”
”THAT’S WHAT I WANT, YOU DINGUS!!!”
 
He was lucky he wasn’t on UAL. His ass would’ve been dragged to the L1 door and kicked unceremoniously out into the jetway.
 
This was a thing back in 2020 (the domain has since been squatted by an apartment locator). We could have solved the "Nickelback question."


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Minuteman said:
This was a thing back in 2020 (the domain has since been squatted by an apartment locator). We could have solved the "Nickelback question."


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Quebec seceding has a much bigger chance of happening, which is to say, yea, it'll never happen.

What will happen if this fires up again will play out exactly as it happened with Quebec. There will be a lot of noise made, rattling of cans, referendums and agitation. The national government will make a bunch of concessions to head it off, which Alberta would be stupid not to take and the status quo will be a better deal. All the other provinces will say "hey, what about us? It can't be just them that gets a good deal!", so they'll get a bunch of goodies as well, and the national government will be effectively neutered as any significant body other than to preside over the annual planting ceremony at the International Peace Garden on the border with North Dakota.
 
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NovemberEcho said:
www.theguardian.com

Disabled man drags himself off plane after Air Canada fails to offer wheelchair

Airline was forced to apologize to Rodney Hodgins who flew to Las Vegas with his wife to celebrate their anniversary in August
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

“When the attendant said Hodgins would have to pull himself off the plane alone, the couple at first thought she was joking – but then she repeated the request.”

W.T.F.
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This makes me mad. I've seen something on my own jet, we had a "carry off" and no one told the station. So the cabin crew stood around complaining about the passenger within earshot of them. I went and got the aisle chair, helped the passenger into it and carted them off the jet to their wheelchair. Then had a chat with my crew. I'm sure I'm on some flight attendant "• captain list" for doing that, of course, but good grief, it's not like the passenger CHOSE to be disabled, they probably dream about deplaning with everyone else and not causing a stir.

"If you drop her, she can sue you"

"don't care"
 
derg said:
This makes me mad. I've seen something on my own jet, we had a "carry off" and no one told the station. So the cabin crew stood around complaining about the passenger within earshot of them. I went and got the aisle chair, helped the passenger into it and carted them off the jet to their wheelchair. Then had a chat with my crew. I'm sure I'm on some flight attendant "• captain list" for doing that, of course, but good grief, it's not like the passenger CHOSE to be disabled, they probably dream about deplaning with everyone else and not causing a stir.

"If you drop her, she can sue you"

"don't care"
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I have to say, people may slag hard on SkyWest, but almost every FA I've ever flown with takes amazing care of their passengers... and we take care of our FAs.

There's a strong sense that we're all in this together, as a crew

I sometimes see things at other airlines that makes me wonder how the culture got so bad.

I will always grab wheelchairs, carry bags, and make sure the stuff gets done. Just a few weeks ago, I stayed with one wheelchair-bound passenger at LAX for half an hour past my release time while she waited for a wheelchair. I got her a spare aisle chair to sit in, talked with her, and kept her company to make sure she didn't get (or feel) abandoned.

I've seen my crew do similar.

It sounds like a lot of crew neglect the basic humanity of their passengers out of sheer jadedness, which frustrates me.
 
derg said:
This makes me mad. I've seen something on my own jet, we had a "carry off" and no one told the station. So the cabin crew stood around complaining about the passenger within earshot of them. I went and got the aisle chair, helped the passenger into it and carted them off the jet to their wheelchair. Then had a chat with my crew. I'm sure I'm on some flight attendant "• captain list" for doing that, of course, but good grief, it's not like the passenger CHOSE to be disabled, they probably dream about deplaning with everyone else and not causing a stir.

"If you drop her, she can sue you"

"don't care"
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Acrofox said:
I have to say, people may slag hard on SkyWest, but almost every FA I've ever flown with takes amazing care of their passengers... and we take care of our FAs.

There's a strong sense that we're all in this together, as a crew

I sometimes see things at other airlines that makes me wonder how the culture got so bad.

I will always grab wheelchairs, carry bags, and make sure the stuff gets done. Just a few weeks ago, I stayed with one wheelchair-bound passenger at LAX for half an hour past my release time while she waited for a wheelchair. I got her a spare aisle chair to sit in, talked with her, and kept her company to make sure she didn't get (or feel) abandoned.

I've seen my crew do similar.

It sounds like a lot of crew neglect the basic humanity of their passengers out of sheer jadedness, which frustrates me.
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Once upon a time, on this very forum, there seemed to be a consensus that doing things like helping with bags or getting wheelchairs…..is basically doing someone's else’s potentially union protected job as well as risking an injury not covered by workers comp. That you as a pilot should do your job and stay out of other people's jobs. That as a professional air line pilot, you aren’t there to push wheelchairs, to help clean up the cabin, to toss bags, etc... that doing other people’s jobs undermines your own profession, while infringing on other employees jobs.

If I remember right, the general idea was that as a Captain, it’s not your job to do everyone else’s job on the airport.

Is this not the general consensus anymore?
 
MikeD said:
Once upon a time, on this very forum, there seemed to be a consensus that doing things like helping with bags or getting wheelchairs…..is basically doing someone's else’s potentially union protected job as well as risking an injury not covered by workers comp. That you as a pilot should do your job and stay out of other people's jobs. That as a professional air line pilot, you aren’t there to push wheelchairs, to help clean up the cabin, to toss bags, etc... that doing other people’s jobs undermines your own profession, while infringing on other employees jobs.

If I remember right, the general idea was that as a Captain, it’s not your job to do everyone else’s job on the airport.

Is this not the general consensus anymore?
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I don't like this attitude, personally. My passengers are the reason I'm there. We crew, and the rampers, and the gate agents, and the CSAs, and the passengers, we're all in this thing together.

At the end of the day, all of us at the airlines are ambassadors for professional aviation, and it behooves us to take care of our people. There are limits—safety, legality, and to some extent practicality—but there's a difference between helping out and tromping on someone's job. The subtleties in that choreography come with experience.

I want my crew to know that I have their back if they do the right thing for our passengers.
 
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