African boarding etiquette - comments welcome
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Passenger Service Agent: "Ladies & Gentlemen once again we are only boarding passengers with boarding card numbers one through ninety. All other passengers remain seated ... ahh screw it ... I want to get back home"
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Man if that's in Africa, that's got to be some place in West Africa. I don' believe they do stuff like that in east and south Africa. What pilot would agree to do this sh*t? 
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Very familiar indeed!!
Did some freighter ops into Mogadishu during the war and there were times you'd land there and not find any mechanised offloading equipment!
The only option was to use brute force readily available at a fee. The loadmaster used to dish out the money after the job was done but there was a day he underpaid on the agreed sum so they kidnapped & harrased him at gunpoint.
From then on, he would only dish out the cash from the comfort of the cockpit... not knowing that he was endangering our lives because the guys would shove their way in while toting small arms & grenades under their shirts!!
What the photograph shows is definitely a "PAYDAY" after an offloading, while the guys under the main gear are waiting to "push" the kite. (notice no Pushback truck?)
Did some freighter ops into Mogadishu during the war and there were times you'd land there and not find any mechanised offloading equipment!
The only option was to use brute force readily available at a fee. The loadmaster used to dish out the money after the job was done but there was a day he underpaid on the agreed sum so they kidnapped & harrased him at gunpoint.
From then on, he would only dish out the cash from the comfort of the cockpit... not knowing that he was endangering our lives because the guys would shove their way in while toting small arms & grenades under their shirts!!
What the photograph shows is definitely a "PAYDAY" after an offloading, while the guys under the main gear are waiting to "push" the kite. (notice no Pushback truck?)
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Oooooh man 
what a sight watching the Documentary on Air Rage in Europe oh man this S
t is amazing . What a sight and they even boast to the police about being english.
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Sad bunch I say.
what a sight watching the Documentary on Air Rage in Europe oh man this S t is amazing . What a sight and they even boast to the police about being english. Language edited
Sad bunch I say.
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Flight attendant to unruly onlookers at steps :
"Due to a blunder in the travel arrangements by the attorney of Mr Michael Jackson - he will only be on the next flight .... now please remove yourselves and the VIP bus we want to texi "
"Due to a blunder in the travel arrangements by the attorney of Mr Michael Jackson - he will only be on the next flight .... now please remove yourselves and the VIP bus we want to texi "
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Abeche-Chad?My co pilot once made the mistake of standing in the door way to stop them, the xxxxxxx just klapped him aside and boarded.
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