Scenes from holiday travel

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"Your heater is BROKEN! It was FREEZING in row 41!! This is preposterous!"

Sorry sir, didn't hear any complaints for the past nine hours, did you alert the flight attendant?

"No, I was sleeping!"
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"Your airline broke my $2000 stroller! How am I supposed to push it?"

The wheels are retractable. Just swing this lever here and it's just like brand new.

"You don't have to be an (expletive deleted) about it, I just had a nine hour flight"
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Gosh, I love the holidays and miss the higher summer fares when "The Clampetts" weren't flying.
 
Doug Taylor said:
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"Your airline broke my $2000 stroller! How am I supposed to push it?"

The wheels are retractable. Just swing this lever here and it's just like brand new.

"You don't have to be an (expletive deleted) about it, I just had a nine hour flight"
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Gosh, I love the holidays and miss the higher summer fares when "The Clampetts" weren't flying.
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And just what did this individual think you did for the previous nine hours? :dunno::banghead:
 
I'm not sure how telling the pilots AFTER the flight is going to solve anything!
 
There are times when I feel a great deal of sadness about being furloughed and not working anymore.

Then I read things like this, and I don't feel sad anymore.
 
MQAAord said:
There are times when I feel a great deal of sadness about being furloughed and not working anymore.

Then I read things like this, and I don't feel sad anymore.
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And live, from Den Haag/The Hague:

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Still waiting for Baby Doc Duvalier to come strolling up to the World Forum... ;)
 
You know what my only significant regret is? It's that I never got to do international. One of my biggest reasons for leaving Eagle for AA was the eventual chance to see other parts of the world. Not that I'm not happy with what & where I am now, but that was something I'd wanted to do, at least for a little while.

I'm 34, and have never crossed an ocean (ever, even as a pax!). Been to Canada, SJU & GCM, but never anything long-haul. Oh well. Such is the way the cards fell. Airplanes will always be there, but the kids are only young once...

On a slightly related note, Bill got to do the LGA tour this past week! Went to LGA after the storm... was a bit crazy leaving the next day! Fun times, fun times.
 
It's cool, but the "sheen" wears off from time to time if you're not careful; especially when it's been a long strand of trips, but it helps. I went to "The Dark Side" a few times yesterday, but I recovered.

The best part is not being around "Optimus Prime" so often in the hub cities, which helps.
 
MQAAord said:
You know what my only significant regret is? It's that I never got to do international. One of my biggest reasons for leaving Eagle for AA was the eventual chance to see other parts of the world. Not that I'm not happy with what & where I am now, but that was something I'd wanted to do, at least for a little while.

I'm 34, and have never crossed an ocean (ever, even as a pax!). Been to Canada, SJU & GCM, but never anything long-haul. Oh well. Such is the way the cards fell. Airplanes will always be there, but the kids are only young once...

On a slightly related note, Bill got to do the LGA tour this past week! Went to LGA after the storm... was a bit crazy leaving the next day! Fun times, fun times.
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NEVER say never, Amber. :)
 
Oh no, I have learned to never say never.

I thought there was no way I'd ever be a stay-home mom. I am. I thought there was no way I'd get furloughed. I did. I thought I'd never actually have the chance to get my PPL. I did that too.

Airplanes will always be there. I'm only 34, I got a few good years left in me. :) What's next... who knows! But I'm up for the adventure, and I'm sure LHR, DUB, FRA & NRT will still be there in a few years when the kids are old enough to fend for themselves.
 
My favorite is my roommate complaining on the prices- he's jewish and his company is closed for a few days and he wants to get away. He found a round trip to Madrid for $515. I told him "stop complaining, well that might barely pay for your share of the gas to get out there!" He didn't understand what I was talking about. Sigh.
 
Dad's got 13 straight days of trips starting today. LAX tonight, IAH and back to LA or xmas morning, a couple of turns from EWR (including a NY Jets charter that he is not looking forward to (more BS less pay), 5 day ARN (which the whole family will be joining him over new years) and finally a BHX to wrap things up on the 4th.

I'm sure he will have several stories to tell.

Right now he likes the 756, do a lot of international and a bit of domestic stuff to put some variety in things.
 
While FO is briefing the cabin..
Pax 1: "My reading light doesn't work"
FO: "Yes mam it will work once the engines are running"
(Now the ties close)
Pax 2: "Hey but my reading light is working right now"
(Open the ties)
Pax 1: "Nope well mine still isnt working"
(Close ties)
Pax 1: "Oh wait there is goes, it works"
(Open ties)
Pax 1: "Never mind its not working again"
 
You want to hear my favorite..

We were a deadheading crew in one of our planes with the giant "We support our troops" yellow ribbon painted on the side.. Guess which REVENUE passenger they tried to bump from the flight, in his seat, in front of everyone. A soldier returning from overseas in uniform to spend xmas with his family.. from the freakin support our troops plane!!!!

Are you freakin kidding me? Really?

It ended up being a fight with the agents and scheduling because I refused to let that happen. I kept trying to get them to just deadhead me the next day, Or I was just gonna fatigue it or something and go home but it would've screwed everyone in the morning.. I absolutely hated helping out the company and going against my contractual rights to not ride jumpseat as a DH in that painful contraption for 3 hrs, especially when they have screwed me repeatedly so many times.. but it was the holiday's, everybody wants to get home, so I just gave in and took it to keep his seat.

I HATE AMR!!!!!!!!!!!! Lowlife scumbags..
 
The best are people who give away buddy passes and don't warn their friends to non-rev responsibility. Nothing pisses gate agents working around the holidays more than some clueless freeloader yelling and screaming because the flight is full, they're going to miss xmas dinner and its the agent's fault.
 
Sort of holiday travel....but here it goes...

I am working W-Sat this week (7a-7p)

snow storm due to hit minny

manager reserves two hotel rooms a few blocks away and says (maybe) you guys might want to stay here if you think you might not make it home and back...

Hell-to-the-No....

I am working Xmas-eve and xmas and you think maybe I should just stay at the hotel so I can make it back.....Sorry dude, but I will leave a couple hours early if I have to so I can be with my kids for some portion of the day....

It's a nice thought, but ain't gonna happen....:rotfl:
 
I had a captain threaten to kick a guys ass this morning out on the curb in HPN. We were unloading our bags and a guy in an SUV was getting impatient. The quote of the day is "I will give you a reason to have that handicapped sign on your mirror"

professionalism at it's best!
 
As the Spirit captain who let me occupy his jumpseat said, "If this thing's full, there's a trailer park that's empty!"
 
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