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It's a well known fact that pax check their brains with their bags. It's not a criticism, it's a fact.
This thread is brilliant therapy for all of us on the front line (in the air and on the ground.) Pax do say very daft things, but laughing at it helps keep us sane and stop us from going totally doolally.
If this thread offends you then I suggest you try a diffent forum, perhaps one for frequent flyers talk?
This thread is brilliant therapy for all of us on the front line (in the air and on the ground.) Pax do say very daft things, but laughing at it helps keep us sane and stop us from going totally doolally.
If this thread offends you then I suggest you try a diffent forum, perhaps one for frequent flyers talk?
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It's a well known fact that pax check their brains with their bags. It's not a criticism, it's a fact.
You're missing my point about this thread, which is not your fault but mine, for failing to provide clarity.
Yes, people say and do funny things when being subjected to aviation. Some are genuinely funny, some were funny the first time that you heard them but lose something when repeated for the hundredth time as is the case with many of the posts on this thread: However, that may just be because I've been flying too long.
Most importantly, some of the posts on this thread reveal rather more about the attitudes of the person posting than was intended. Those are the posts I have an issue with.
Human Beings are the hard currency of our profession, and we are, by definition, imperfect. We all are, incertain situations, prone to doing and saying odd things, and that applies to CC as well. There is a point where we stop laughing with others, and start laughing at them, and that is not a good place to be.
If this thread offends you then I suggest you try a diffent forum, perhaps one for frequent flyers talk?
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I had a flight where an economy passengers 3 children kept running through the curtain into business screaming on a night flight.
Me "Sir can you please tell your children to stop running into the business class cabin there are passengers trying to sleep and they are disturbing them"
Pax: "That's really none of your business is it."
Me "Well sir I am here to ensure our passengers have an enjoyable flight. There have been complaints from passengers regarding your children f so actually it is my business"
Pax "Why don't you just lock the door?"
Me "Sir can you please explain to me how I can lock a curtain?"
Pax: "They are children they can do what they want to I'm not going to stop them."
I contemplated running one of the little turds over with a cart or giving them a cheeky high heel on the toes but I figured they had been punished enough by having this loser as a father.
Me "Sir can you please tell your children to stop running into the business class cabin there are passengers trying to sleep and they are disturbing them"
Pax: "That's really none of your business is it."
Me "Well sir I am here to ensure our passengers have an enjoyable flight. There have been complaints from passengers regarding your children f so actually it is my business"
Pax "Why don't you just lock the door?"
Me "Sir can you please explain to me how I can lock a curtain?"
Pax: "They are children they can do what they want to I'm not going to stop them."
I contemplated running one of the little turds over with a cart or giving them a cheeky high heel on the toes but I figured they had been punished enough by having this loser as a father.
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Our worst enemy
During training I was told many times (by trainers) that pax are our worst enemy 
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After 8 years in the industry I would say even more: They pack their brain even before driving their way to the airport. So as counterattack I switch off mine
(I mean, my brain)
This is not a critic
It is a proven fact
Cheers!
.After 8 years in the industry I would say even more: They pack their brain even before driving their way to the airport. So as counterattack I switch off mine
(I mean, my brain)This is not a critic
It is a proven fact
Cheers!
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This is not a critic
It is a proven fact
It is a proven fact
If you switch off your brain when flying then you are failing in your duties to your employer and your customers and should be working in some other field.
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As incredibly nail-bitingly exciting as your debate is regarding whats fact and whats not, could you please take it to Private Message and leave the rest of us to enjoy this thread for what its intended - light hearted humour - or, dare I even say (lest I incur the wrath of the "take-it-literally" police), therapy
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Fair enough - I'll keep quiet (unless of course, somebody else posts something that reflects badly on our profession or ourselves)
BTW - in a forum where there is no audible or visible communication - only the written word - we have no choice but to take things literally: We can only work with what has been written, nothing else is available. One way to get around the problem of being taken literally would be to write with some attempt at precision and thought, instead of gush and emotive cliche - or to preface such writing with a warning such as "Here I'm writing trivial, childish and cliched nonsense because I'm too lazy to think for myself and anyway most people will probably understand what I mean, more or less, although I don't really care that much"
I don't expect this to make a blind bit off difference, but I'll give you a break (for now) - I'll get my coat!
Missing you already...
BTW - in a forum where there is no audible or visible communication - only the written word - we have no choice but to take things literally: We can only work with what has been written, nothing else is available. One way to get around the problem of being taken literally would be to write with some attempt at precision and thought, instead of gush and emotive cliche - or to preface such writing with a warning such as "Here I'm writing trivial, childish and cliched nonsense because I'm too lazy to think for myself and anyway most people will probably understand what I mean, more or less, although I don't really care that much"
I don't expect this to make a blind bit off difference, but I'll give you a break (for now) - I'll get my coat!
Missing you already...
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Hi love!
Hi Dogs ears up!!
Yes you're right, English is not my first language. I'm still trying hard to improve it, but I need your support and understanding. Thank you very much for that.
About failing in my duties to my employer, I have a different opinion. I think they're failing first to us with so many temp contracts, crap conditions, low salaries, minimum rests, minimum crew compliment on flights, cost cutting on salaries(again) and employee benefits, exhausting rosters and a veeeery long etcetera I'm sure you are very well aware of. And I guess in your country it's still within reasonable limits. I could invite you to come and work as crew in my country or in many others not so far from yours.
Failing to my customers??!!..., I'm still as enthusiastic and hard work as the first day I got on a plane, whilst I cannot say the same about companies: overbooking, fraudulent cancelations, poor manteniance of their fleets, smaller seats, lack of experienced staff, abusive conditions, etc, etc...
So, bearing all this in mind and still steping on a plane with 300 or more lovely -but demanding- pax, I'm pretty sure you agree with me that certain level of "switched off" brain is required, as well as your industrial smile.
Try another field??, I have worked as baker and as bricklayer before, but I realized long ago that air crew is by far more fun.
Anyway, lets keep up the good job! (we're the only ones who still do it).
Cheers!!
Yes you're right, English is not my first language. I'm still trying hard to improve it, but I need your support and understanding. Thank you very much for that.
About failing in my duties to my employer, I have a different opinion. I think they're failing first to us with so many temp contracts, crap conditions, low salaries, minimum rests, minimum crew compliment on flights, cost cutting on salaries(again) and employee benefits, exhausting rosters and a veeeery long etcetera I'm sure you are very well aware of. And I guess in your country it's still within reasonable limits. I could invite you to come and work as crew in my country or in many others not so far from yours.
Failing to my customers??!!..., I'm still as enthusiastic and hard work as the first day I got on a plane, whilst I cannot say the same about companies: overbooking, fraudulent cancelations, poor manteniance of their fleets, smaller seats, lack of experienced staff, abusive conditions, etc, etc...
So, bearing all this in mind and still steping on a plane with 300 or more lovely -but demanding- pax, I'm pretty sure you agree with me that certain level of "switched off" brain is required, as well as your industrial smile.
Try another field??, I have worked as baker and as bricklayer before, but I realized long ago that air crew is by far more fun.
Anyway, lets keep up the good job! (we're the only ones who still do it).
Cheers!!
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So Matt101 - funnily enough I drink neither tea nor coffee, so yes, if you ask me "tea or coffee sir?", then usually I'll ask for a beer (chilled at that!!!).. [/Quote]
And happy to get it for you I post with amusement not resentment I just find things onboard abotu our job make me chuckle a lot really and the question "tea or coffee" simply being replied to with "bear" or "yes please" or any other number of thiings makes me chuckle.
Other things that make me laugh are things pax do, crew do, ground staff do, tech crew do, all of that. It's a bizarre industry at times so please don't take offence I didn't mean any.
and PS I usually raid all the beers from the bars and put them on ice at the beginning of the flight as I can't stand serving warm lager - hope you would approve?
Matt :-)
So Matt101 - funnily enough I drink neither tea nor coffee, so yes, if you ask me "tea or coffee sir?", then usually I'll ask for a beer (chilled at that!!!).. [/Quote]
And happy to get it for you I post with amusement not resentment I just find things onboard abotu our job make me chuckle a lot really and the question "tea or coffee" simply being replied to with "bear" or "yes please" or any other number of thiings makes me chuckle.
Other things that make me laugh are things pax do, crew do, ground staff do, tech crew do, all of that. It's a bizarre industry at times so please don't take offence I didn't mean any.
and PS I usually raid all the beers from the bars and put them on ice at the beginning of the flight as I can't stand serving warm lager - hope you would approve?
Matt :-)
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Dogs: If anyone seems not to belong in this forum it must be YOU. Can you please stop destroying a threat that a lot of other people enjoy (the number of pages in this thread speaks for itself), just because you feel you are a saint above all. Obviously you belong in some church-forum with likeminded boring nuns
You are an annoying thing that should find somewhere else to go, when you can not accept other people writing about their experiences and funny comments/thoughts on a board, ESPECIALLY in a thread designated EXCACTLY for that.
I really hope you are not one of my CC, as i like to have humans working in the back.
Girls and Guys, keep it all coming. It is all great fun to read. And those pax reading along might learn a thing or two about what not to do
You are an annoying thing that should find somewhere else to go, when you can not accept other people writing about their experiences and funny comments/thoughts on a board, ESPECIALLY in a thread designated EXCACTLY for that.
I really hope you are not one of my CC, as i like to have humans working in the back.
Girls and Guys, keep it all coming. It is all great fun to read. And those pax reading along might learn a thing or two about what not to do
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Well dressed gent, perhaps a lawyer, was interviewed by a TV science programme while standing in line at the check-in for a trans-con flight. He was asked to explain the theory of flight. "That is an easy one", he said, "the aircraft gains speed, and then releases".
Older couple sitting beside me on a NWA flight from Orlando to Minneapolis-St. Paul, VMC day, bright sunshine, on finals. She turns to her husband and asks, "Are we being flown by the controllers on the ground now?" Clutching her hand, he replies, "Yes dear, we are".
Older couple sitting beside me on a NWA flight from Orlando to Minneapolis-St. Paul, VMC day, bright sunshine, on finals. She turns to her husband and asks, "Are we being flown by the controllers on the ground now?" Clutching her hand, he replies, "Yes dear, we are".
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Boy theres some miserable so 'n' so's on here
BRILL THREAD.....had me chuckling hearing some of those stories. 
Being the Freight Dog kinda fella, I'm glad I don't have to put up with pax on a regular basis...I'd have probably been lock up by now
Seems a few people on here though have nothing better to do than try and find a way to complain / bitch / gripe / whatever about what stories people are recalling..... in what is obviously a thread meant for a bit of fun.
To those pepole who seem to have a problem with this thread do yourself and the people on this thread a favour...Foxtrot Oscar, and let the people who are taking the time to post there memories keep us entertained.
Remember the line that the ugly dude in Total Recall said to Arnie "Relax....You'll live longer"
Oh no.... wait ... somebody is bound to reply now asking me to provide written documented proof that relaxing makes you live longer ...just for the record...I was joking (wanted to clear that up for some of the more serious types in here)
Again....great thread boys and girls...keep it up
Being the Freight Dog kinda fella, I'm glad I don't have to put up with pax on a regular basis...I'd have probably been lock up by now
Seems a few people on here though have nothing better to do than try and find a way to complain / bitch / gripe / whatever about what stories people are recalling..... in what is obviously a thread meant for a bit of fun.
To those pepole who seem to have a problem with this thread do yourself and the people on this thread a favour...Foxtrot Oscar, and let the people who are taking the time to post there memories keep us entertained.
Remember the line that the ugly dude in Total Recall said to Arnie "Relax....You'll live longer"
Oh no.... wait ... somebody is bound to reply now asking me to provide written documented proof that relaxing makes you live longer ...just for the record...I was joking (wanted to clear that up for some of the more serious types in here)
Again....great thread boys and girls...keep it up
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"I had a flight where an economy passengers 3 children kept running through the curtain into business screaming on a night flight.
Me "Sir can you please tell your children to stop running into the business class cabin there are passengers trying to sleep and they are disturbing them"
Pax: "That's really none of your business is it."
Me "Well sir I am here to ensure our passengers have an enjoyable flight. There have been complaints from passengers regarding your children f so actually it is my business"
Pax "Why don't you just lock the door?"
Me "Sir can you please explain to me how I can lock a curtain?"
Pax: "They are children they can do what they want to I'm not going to stop them."
I contemplated running one of the little turds over with a cart or giving them a cheeky high heel on the toes but I figured they had been punished enough by having this loser as a father."
Perhaps an invitation to the children to go outside and play, would have been in order.
Me "Sir can you please tell your children to stop running into the business class cabin there are passengers trying to sleep and they are disturbing them"
Pax: "That's really none of your business is it."
Me "Well sir I am here to ensure our passengers have an enjoyable flight. There have been complaints from passengers regarding your children f so actually it is my business"
Pax "Why don't you just lock the door?"
Me "Sir can you please explain to me how I can lock a curtain?"
Pax: "They are children they can do what they want to I'm not going to stop them."
I contemplated running one of the little turds over with a cart or giving them a cheeky high heel on the toes but I figured they had been punished enough by having this loser as a father."
Perhaps an invitation to the children to go outside and play, would have been in order.
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to all CCs
hi,
just a couple of things from us ground staff.
When on a flt into LGW the PA announced that we would be disembarking from the rear onto buses to take us to the correct arrivals. Being sat at the front with a couple of colleagues including a Duty Manager we got our bags out and sat back down waiting for the queue to clear. Unfortunately another Club pap had other ideas and stormed up to have a go at the NO.1 as to why he couldn't disembark at the front, he'd paid club fare specially so he could get off first, was going to write to the CEO, and finally demanded to see the captain. After yelling at the captain who with the NO.1 was rationally talking to this pap (god knows how) he then proceded to call his office on the mobile and demand that they took his dictated letter down and mailed ASAP. What an a***hole there really is no need for that and we were absolutely gobsmacked by this.
A couple of days ago, due fog, our flts were running approx 3hrs behind which from our point of vview is better than i could be. After calling and calling these particular 2 pax we offloaded them and the a/c departed. Roughly 10mins later i get a call from another dispatcher working on the next flt out of that gate saying that these pax had turned up and wanted to speak to me about why i didn't hold the flight for them!!
I have total respect for all CCs. I can walk away from a pap (or pack as they like to form on some flights) where as you guys & gals have no where to go up there. i could never do your job. congrats and keep smiling even though somedays you don't feel like it.
just a couple of things from us ground staff.
When on a flt into LGW the PA announced that we would be disembarking from the rear onto buses to take us to the correct arrivals. Being sat at the front with a couple of colleagues including a Duty Manager we got our bags out and sat back down waiting for the queue to clear. Unfortunately another Club pap had other ideas and stormed up to have a go at the NO.1 as to why he couldn't disembark at the front, he'd paid club fare specially so he could get off first, was going to write to the CEO, and finally demanded to see the captain. After yelling at the captain who with the NO.1 was rationally talking to this pap (god knows how) he then proceded to call his office on the mobile and demand that they took his dictated letter down and mailed ASAP. What an a***hole there really is no need for that and we were absolutely gobsmacked by this.
A couple of days ago, due fog, our flts were running approx 3hrs behind which from our point of vview is better than i could be. After calling and calling these particular 2 pax we offloaded them and the a/c departed. Roughly 10mins later i get a call from another dispatcher working on the next flt out of that gate saying that these pax had turned up and wanted to speak to me about why i didn't hold the flight for them!!
I have total respect for all CCs. I can walk away from a pap (or pack as they like to form on some flights) where as you guys & gals have no where to go up there. i could never do your job. congrats and keep smiling even though somedays you don't feel like it.
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Crazy people
My flights tend to be a non event but a couple of weeks ago this really tickled me.
I was stood at the overwings (row 14) and we boarded the a/c using steps at the front. Man huffing and puffing, and wife looking as though she is going to have a fit (American, guys,and am sorry if I offend anyone). He's yelling where's row 1? (behind you, I thought, you just passed it as you got on, and at the front at that. Doh) But smiling I just explained it was at the front.
Felt sorry for the poor loves, tired, emotional etc. However then the wife is bemoaning the fact they are split up and they had to sit together. Thinking dear God I don't need this on a full flight, I looks at their boarding cards 1d and 1F.(upgrades, ah well, good for them) Said I would sort it, only had to move the person in 1E. At this point am still smiling (it's the meds, honest
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Situation sorted.
Then giving the meals out in club, He takes his meal: a cold chicken salad with cous cous (tastes nicer than it sounds) as soon as my back is turned, he hollers this meal is cold. I reply yes sir it's supposed to be, but I ended up splitting my sides as was the ff woman behind. I just sometimes dunno what people say and do. Still tickled me. Muppets.
I was stood at the overwings (row 14) and we boarded the a/c using steps at the front. Man huffing and puffing, and wife looking as though she is going to have a fit (American, guys,and am sorry if I offend anyone). He's yelling where's row 1? (behind you, I thought, you just passed it as you got on, and at the front at that. Doh
) But smiling I just explained it was at the front.Felt sorry for the poor loves, tired, emotional etc. However then the wife is bemoaning the fact they are split up and they had to sit together. Thinking dear God I don't need this on a full flight, I looks at their boarding cards 1d and 1F.(upgrades, ah well, good for them) Said I would sort it, only had to move the person in 1E. At this point am still smiling (it's the meds, honest
)Situation sorted.
Then giving the meals out in club, He takes his meal: a cold chicken salad with cous cous (tastes nicer than it sounds) as soon as my back is turned, he hollers this meal is cold. I reply yes sir it's supposed to be, but I ended up splitting my sides as was the ff woman behind. I just sometimes dunno what people say and do. Still tickled me. Muppets.
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Not so much a "Thick Passenger Comment", but still something that left me speechless...
As any self-respecting Aussie would know, we are currently in the middle of the greatest contest known to Rugby League - the State of Origin series. Two teams - Queensland (the Maroons), and New South Wales (the Blues) play each other over 3 games spread across about 9 weeks I think.
Anyway, I am a Blues supporter, and arriving into Brisbane from Sydney a few days ago (the night of the 2nd match - which NSW subsequently lost, and therefore the series
) I said in my landing PA "oh and for those of you off to the pub to watch the game, have a good night - and Go the Blues". Arrive at the gate, pax disembarking, me standing there with arms behind back farewelling them. Youngish male pax comes up and says "Go Maroons"... naturally my response was "Go Blues" - to which he promptly gave me a Nipple Cripple!!!!! R1 crewmember standing there nearly collapsed in fits of hysterics, and I was totally dumbfounded......... the worst part was he wasnt even that attractive
ah, the glamourous life of a flight attendant!
Oh and for the record, I am a guy - for those wondering about the "nipple cripple" concept on a female
As any self-respecting Aussie would know, we are currently in the middle of the greatest contest known to Rugby League - the State of Origin series. Two teams - Queensland (the Maroons), and New South Wales (the Blues) play each other over 3 games spread across about 9 weeks I think.
Anyway, I am a Blues supporter, and arriving into Brisbane from Sydney a few days ago (the night of the 2nd match - which NSW subsequently lost, and therefore the series
) I said in my landing PA "oh and for those of you off to the pub to watch the game, have a good night - and Go the Blues". Arrive at the gate, pax disembarking, me standing there with arms behind back farewelling them. Youngish male pax comes up and says "Go Maroons"... naturally my response was "Go Blues" - to which he promptly gave me a Nipple Cripple!!!!! R1 crewmember standing there nearly collapsed in fits of hysterics, and I was totally dumbfounded......... the worst part was he wasnt even that attractive ah, the glamourous life of a flight attendant!
Oh and for the record, I am a guy - for those wondering about the "nipple cripple" concept on a female
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I was totally dumbfounded......... the worst part was he wasnt even that attractive
ah, the glamourous life of a flight attendant!
Oh and for the record, I am a guy - for those wondering about the "nipple cripple" concept on a female
ah, the glamourous life of a flight attendant!
Oh and for the record, I am a guy - for those wondering about the "nipple cripple" concept on a female
ahhhh the myth continues.............
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I am SLF but have EVERY sympathy with you CC.
Especially those of you having to deal with British chavs, you must just love finding out you're on a summer flight to anywhere in the Med.
Anyway, a diversion; an ex of mine worked for P&O doing the Dover-Calais Calais-Dover run twice a day.
She once had call to collar a guy who was still in the vehicle area after pre-launch checks had been completed. There he was, trying desperately to fit a steering wheel to clutch pedal immobiliser to his car.
On a ferry.
As my ex said to him, if they manage to break into your car, it's in the middle of hundreds of other cars and is in the middle of the English Channel, where is it going to go?
He reported her for her flippant attitude.........
Never ever forget that even if they ARE paying your wages, a chav is still a chav...............
Especially those of you having to deal with British chavs, you must just love finding out you're on a summer flight to anywhere in the Med.
Anyway, a diversion; an ex of mine worked for P&O doing the Dover-Calais Calais-Dover run twice a day.
She once had call to collar a guy who was still in the vehicle area after pre-launch checks had been completed. There he was, trying desperately to fit a steering wheel to clutch pedal immobiliser to his car.
On a ferry.
As my ex said to him, if they manage to break into your car, it's in the middle of hundreds of other cars and is in the middle of the English Channel, where is it going to go?
He reported her for her flippant attitude.........
Never ever forget that even if they ARE paying your wages, a chav is still a chav...............