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Old 5th June 2004 | 02:27
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DJ_Fly_Boi
 
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From: Brisbane
I couldnt find anywhere more appropriate for these comments - so decided to add them to this post.

A few years ago, I was working as a Travel Agent and was on an educational in Malaysia - we were seated at dinner at a very swish 5 star hotel when suddenly our tour guide announced that we had been asked to leave the hotel - much to our dismay! - It seems that the hotel staff were a little disgusted by our dinner conversation. - We had been discussing how Asian clients pronounce Qantas - the often pronounce the QA as Cu - say it out loud - Ill leave it up to you. - Imagine the amusement when they come in and ask - "How much to Bangkok with Qantas?"

At this particular time, Qantas had a number of wholsale airfares on sale - the rule reference for these fares were the CltHol the SltHol and the Tithol - as you can imagine a large group of Travel Agents - with too much alcohol in their system imitating asians asking for a "Clthol airfare to Bangkok with Qantas" etc was kinda funny and very offensive.

Another fun game I have played at work was when employed in Airlines Reservations we used to answer the phones between 2 and 6 am by saying, "F*&k for calling _________, how may I help you" - not once did anyone realise that we had not said "Thank you".

The earlier comment about saying 'bananas' when pax were not looking - we once spent an entire shift at checkin asking pax if the following, "Do you have any sharp or pointy objects in yur carry-on luggage, for example, nail files, scissors, cabbages?

The number of people that just said "no" or "Ive got an apple" was hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope you've found these as amusing as what we did at the time!
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