411A, I wish I’d kept score of the number of your tales related to your captive audience here on Pprune that ended in “…and the FO in question was terminated.”
No guesses required as to who you’d be voting for on Oct 7th if you lived a tad west of where you say you live.
I’m of the rabidly anti-smoking persuasion, to the point where I avoid eating with cabin crew on overnights because I can’t handle the number who insist on lighting up, some even during the meal. As for appropriate replies to the dreaded question: “Do you mind if I smoke?”, my usual answer was “My dear, you can burst into flame as far as I’m concerned – but not here.”
Back in the days when smoking was still allowed on the flight deck in my current company, I had an almost surreal in cruise conversation with the airline’s CRM co-ordinator, who asked me, whilst puffing on a coffin nail, what I thought of the CRM programme. I said that I thought one of biggest failures in CRM I’d ever seen was the way smokers lit up in the cockpit when they knew their FOs found it distasteful.
His reply was classic “But I always make a point of keeping the cigarette as far away from the FO as possible.” And he actually did – ciggie in left hand, held almost up against the side window whenever it wasn’t in his mouth – and he actually believed this was saving me from breathing in his smoke.
Having a non smoking section in an aircraft cabin or restaurant is like having a non pissing end in a bathtub.
Edited for font size - and Staffer, I was expecting a reply along the lines of yours (below), but call me totally unsocial, but I find it difficult to enjoy my food while the young woman (the offender is almost always a female) is puffing away on a *** cigarette while i'm eating.
Last edited by Andu; 23rd September 2003 at 17:12.