Originally Posted by Idunno
Hi Bigmouth - well the guy who told me that - its his Dad who flys for SAS, and he was boasting about his latest extended layover trip to Bangkok.
Maybe he was bull****ting me. Please clear this up so I can go back and tell him he's a moron.
I was an aspiring summer pilot for Aer Lingus in 1979. One of my classmates,a Swede, was married to an SAS flight attendant. She said (way back then) that on some occastions SAS would schedule "pleasure stops" in, say the French Riviera, to give crews a break. What struck me then was the reaction of the Aer Lingus flight attendants, most of whom did "out and backs" to Europe with no crew stops. They unanimously wondered why anybody would want to be away from home unnecessarily to stay in such a place as the French Riviera. To each his own!