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I wouldn’t order a coffee on my next flight if I were this pilot – or ask for a flight attendant’s help blocking off the lavatory.
Flight attendants have grueling multi-day trips, and they can’t wait for their bags at baggage claim between flights or they’d risk delaying other flights (and passengers!). On the other hand, if nothing happens to change their trip sequence they could check their bag to that night’s destination! The airline might lose their bags… just like with a passenger.
An American Airlines passenger shares how her flight crew saved her from a sexually predatory seatmate.
An American Airlines passenger found that a chld took the aisle seat he says he paid extra for, and had words with the family over it – but a flight attendant seems to have come down on the family’s side.
He says a flight attendant told him the family was entitled to the seat, “She got on the plane before you” and told him “you are being the bad guy.” He says he was even threatened with ejection from the flight over it.
Can an economy passenger come up to business class to join a family member? If a husband and wife split up – he takes the first class seat, and she’s stuck in coach – can they squeeze into the same seat up front, or take turns using it?
Officially, no. But it happens. And one flight attendant allowed it.
28-year United Airlines flight attendant Ruben Sanchez killed time in the jumpseat on a Los Angeles – Cleveland redeye chatting theology with another Catholic crewmember. Pride Month started the next day, and Sanchez remarks that the Church “will never believe men give birth or bless same‑sex marriage.”
As one customer explains, flying from Denver to Seattle, they ordered a beer and snacks – Frontier charges for both – and they’re “presented with tipping options on [the payment] screen with min tip option 18%.”
Once the 25-hour cockpit voice recording mandate is fully in effect, any chances of it ever happening will be pretty much over.
A British Airways business class passenger flying long haul with her 7-month-old baby asked if she could delay her meal service while she nursed the child and put him to sleep. That request was declined, so she was forced to skip meal service. She set herself up in the business class bed, lying fully flat, in order to nurse under a cover.
The incident occurred in Singapore, where the 37-year-old flight attendant had placed a mini camera in a bathroom shared by crewmembers. Intending to covertly film his colleague, he entered the bathroom early in the morning and positioned the camera strategically, pointing it toward the toilet area, concealed beneath a towel.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
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