Heading to Orlando, via West Palm Beach. Both flights (went through Charlotte) have been delayed for lack of flight attendents…
Heading to Orlando, via West Palm Beach. Both flights (went through Charlotte) have been delayed for lack of flight attendents…
The airlines do seem to have gotten a lot worse with winter weather. Not sure if it is this particular set of storms and cold or the general problem of getting employees. Still, I have, for the past couple of years, paid attention to where I am changing planes and will pay a premium to change in Dallas instead of some city in the upper two thirds. Southwest even wants me to change planes in Orlando or Tampa, sometimes, which I might have to consider, though hardly convenient to home in New York.
Ann’s been trying to get home from Washington DC since Sunday, after three cancelled flights she gave up on flying and is catching Amtrak tomorrow. With luck I’ll pick her up in Orlando Thursday.
I guess you can’t step up and volunteer to be a flight attendant as you could if they were short an altar server in church?
I was on a flight where the departure was held up for a group of Belgian tourists to clear customs and immigration. The call went out for someone who could speak French. I really should have studied much harder in French class in school because I badly wanted to tell the Northwest Airliness joke about safety briefing on people should be seated in relation to their swimming ability,
“Pour les autres qui ne nagez pas (in “those who do not swim”, emphasize pas pronouned PAH! for comedic effect), merci a voler avec l’avion du Nord Ouest.”
You know it’s when you don a parachute when giving the speil about seat belts, exit signs and oxygen masks that really focus the passengers’ attention…
If asked, your name is Dan Cooper: “Just call me DB…”
With sunglasses on you’d be hard pressed to tell Rand from Dan…
If the safety brief was serious passengers with precarious high heeled shoes would be required to wear sensible shoes. “how will you go running through pools of burning jet fuel in THOSE” may focus attention. Also clothing should be a little flame resistant and cover most skin.
Forget about pools of burning Jet A. What about simply getting down the slide in spike heels?
Last time I was on a jet, we landed “hot” after doing a go-around and orbiting the airport multiple times because according to the captain, we were given a wind shear warning. The flight crew leaned on the wheel brakes as hard as I ever experienced in a plane, and we came to a stop right before the end of a runway, which is my “home drome” and let’s say I know they layout of this runway well.
As soon as the door opened up and the seat belt sign went out, the cabin filled with a haze and reeked of burning brake pads. I stood up and moved forward but was scolded by a Karen in an exit row that I should return to my seat.
I learned that I violated current-day deplaning etiquette, but is there something in the FARs that you can’t get up to leave as soon as the seat belt sign goes off? What is proper etiquette when, like, you think the plane might be on fire?