Doing just Splendidly here VH, holidays coming up shortly :D How's yourself?

:rolleyes: I bet she is a barrell of laughs to work with too!

Not so much a thick Passenger comment as much as a thick Sinala1 comment - doing arrival PA, nattering on about aerobridge/stairs combination to be used for disembarking - stopped mid sentence when I remembered the port we were arriving at had no aerobridge :ugh: Luckily managed to talk my way out of it (just!)

Sinala;

Staggering along. Off to Barbados next week. Six day layover, holidays not until September.

She achieved a certain notoriety by bursting all four main gear tyres at Barcelona in a rather spectacular arrival and had to put up with rather a lot of "woman driver" comments from the pax before her interview without tea and biccies.

VH

A few years back, my sis (ex Dan air, Caledonian, Ambassador,Royal Jordanian) used to amuse herself on night flights by attending to disruptive pax at various times during the darkness wearing various shades of novelty contact lenses, reserving the deep red ones for the particularly sh***y folk. She reckoned it calmed them down no end. Or just gave them nightmares for years!!!

A couple of guys asked me once, "Why have we stopped?"

This was during cruise. They seemed a little embarrassed to be asking, as if the reason for "stopping" should have been obvious.

I couldn't tell whether they were serious, or just very good comedians.

PAX: "What are the TV screens for?"

:ugh:

I once had a pax call me over and she looked very frightened. I asked if she was ok and she said "Oh my god we're going down is this normal?" This was just after the captain had made a pa saying we were descending and landing in 15 mins!
Also I was dealing with a pax who had fainted putting oxygen on her etc and I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned round and a passenger asked me for a glass of water. Yes sir i'll just leave this young girl lying here to get you one!

Stanley that reminds me of when I used to fly long haul... LHR-JNB, about 5 hours into the flight, somewhere over Africa. Severe medical, pax with a double pulmonary embolism - luckily there was a doctor onboard and based on his advice and assistance from Medlink it was clear we were going to have to divert. Options were turn around and backtrack to either Algiers or Tunis - obviously, we took Tunis.

I was not directly involved with the sick pax, so was keeping up cabin presence etc. South African lady travelling with her son stops me and asks why we were diverting. I said "unfortunatley we have a very sick passenger who requires immediate medical assistance. We have to land ASAP, as her health is obviously very important to us". Lady responds "yeah well not to ME its not - this is destroying my holiday plans"

:mad:

I responded "how would you feel if it were your son who was sick?"

She went very quiet after that!

B:mad:tch

Also I was dealing with a pax who had fainted putting oxygen on her etc and I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned round and a passenger asked me for a glass of water. Yes sir i'll just leave this young girl lying here to get you one!

I remember when me and another crew member were sat on our knees in the aisle trying to help a woman who we thought was having a heart attack. She was giving the lady oxygen, whilst another crew member was making a PA to request an MQV, and I was trying to reassure her 12 year old daughter who was terrified.

The girl giving the lady oxygen got shouted at to "Get out of my way, I need to go to the bathroom". He actually shouted!!

Another woman came up to me, prodded me in the back and declared "I need water". I was so shocked I just looked at her and suggested she go and find a tap.

Pax on Mrs. Robo's flight last night: "Can you let my son see the pilots please?"

Mrs. Robo: "I'm sorry, it's not been allowed since 9/11"

Pax: "That's ridiculous. He's only five. He's hardly going to hijack the aircraft"

Mrs. Robo: "As I said, it's not allowed anymore. Even my own five-year-old son wouldn't be allowed up there if he was here".

Pax: "Well he isn't so here so I don't know why you're going on about him. It's my son we're talking about and you still haven't given me a good reason why he can't go up on the flight deck".

Moving swiftly on........

When the rear cargo door is open on the 757 on the ground!
 

PAX: I was at doors 3 on the 757 for boarding And a passenger who was sitting at row 32-33 called me over.

Me: “Hi can I help?”
Pax: Yes!!!! I asked at check to have a seat far away from them the engines, I don’t like it, it’s too loud, you cant bloody see anything, etc….this went on for a good minute or two before I could get a word in . (all pax around him were listing in as they do!)

Me: I then turned around and said: “That’s ok sir, your not any where near the engine that’s the hold door.

He looked out the window then at me then out the window.

Pax: “Oh…..?!?!?!

A classic.

(OK, Hope you take this in the spirit it was posted, fun!)

Passenger, first time in Economy on a Virgin Atlantic flight back from the States:-

" Stewardess, will there be a second round of drinks duruing the flight? you will be coming through the cabin in the next seven hours won't you?" :8:E:E

Had a passenger demand my crew meal once as she was hungry and we had sold out of sandwiches! Never mind the fact that I had a 12 hour day and had been up since 3am. :sad: I nicely explained to her this fact and she didn't get off my back till my Purser reasoned with her.

'Why don't you go and get a proper job love?' This from a middle aged man. :hmm:

A right chavvy looking man wearing his sunglasses: 'I want a JD and coke.' (note, no please or thankyou)
Me: "Certainly, as you can see I am collecting the rubbish, as soon as I have finished I will be happy to get you one."
2 minutes later...'Oi you, where's my drink?' :rolleyes:

Just before landing when passengers want more food/drink despite being told before hand that due to Customs regulations the bars are locked.

I was once accosted whilst on a nightstop by an angry pax shouting at me that my airline was rubbish. He was quite threatening and I had to lock myself in my room and call security. :\

A friend of mine was recently attacked my a drunk group of chavvy women on a flight :(

Was reading an article here about how abuse against service workers is growing: http://money.guardian.co.uk/workweek...141036,00.html

Very similar thing happened to me once. All our pax bags had been left behind in ALC due very hot weather and maximum take off weight restrictionns. The pax knew and they, all 215 of them, crowded round the baggage office, trying to get in and over the counter! Had to get customs and the police to remove them! Very, very scary for me. I hadn't even been with the airline six months!

I was serving fish and lamb for the dinner service. I asked this guy what he wanted fish or lamb and he said beef.

I told him that sorry the choice today is lamb or fish what would you like.

He then told me in a smart ass tone that lamb and beef are the same thing and that they come from the same animal so I he wanted the beef!!

So I gave him the lamb!

Hello....!!!

lol, lets fly post.

i know you said your post was to be taken as fun, but i can't see that. i flew virgin economy to and from the states and on both flights we only got one bar service, and that was 4 hours into the flight!!!

so were you meaning that the woman was being thick, because of course you wouldnt be doing a second drinks service. or was she being thick because of course you 'normally' do? i'm confuzzled!

Ah, hello!!!!! No wonder your concerned about a second bar service. Your username says is all: Vodkaholic.

I have one from the horses mouth, as fully qualified SLF. I went back to the galley on an AA-777 last month westbound across the pond. Powder blue sky outside, so I bent slightly and looked out of the rear access window.

Coming in the opposite direction, right to left at the same altitude was another silver jet, with the most wonderful grey expanding contrail from the back. It wasn't converging so I wasn't alarmed, and watched it for a few minuites..

It was the wingtip...

And galleybitch - I laugh in the face of 2nd bar service. I have just witnessed the mother of all bar bills between a Malaysian Gent and a 'freelance' airwoman on Malaysian. (I was in the busness class seat behind them)

And may I add, in the old Air Canada ad - 'I didnt want to get off' - especially with the sunrise and nebula-like storm clouds inbound to KLIA. No wingtips up top on a 747!! - My first time up there.

With the odd exception you guys make traveling the greatest. OK the pilot has the last word, but nobody notices until it goes tits up. - Until then you get the flak.

Rgds

AR1.

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This isn't a thick passenger comment, but it confused the hell outta me..... Previous to the converstion a passengers seat back tv wasn't working properly, everyone elses was so it was suggested that we put on the over head tv's eah of the films in turn so he could watch them. I placed the first film on. In the rear galley a passenger asked me why this particular film (Spiderman 3) was on
ME A passengers seat back tv isn't working and it is the only way he can watch the films.
PAX He should have watched it at home then
ME Well why shouldn't he be able too watch it on the plane?
PAX There are more of us, I don't want to watch it!
ME But you have your own TV and can turn it to a film you want to watch
PAX Oh Forget it!
Now was I being unreasonable to show the movies over the central TV's to allow this pax to watch them? The pax who questioned them being shown was not close to a central TV but it could be seen from their seat.