News and notes from around the interweb:
- Guests at Marriott’s Gaylord Rockies resort receive life-threatening injuries as ventilation ducts fall into crowded pool
- When an airline sells you a ticket, are they only selling you transportation from one place to another? Or is the product they’re selling you a seat whose built-in functions work? Is this actually ‘fixing’ the problem, or is something more owed to the customer?
@united really gave me duct tape to fix my tray table #unitedAIRLINES #United pic.twitter.com/oVVZYOxSFE
— Viraj Bhakta (@VirajBhaktaa) May 8, 2023
- United Airlines actually starts providing details to flight attendants about the wines on board
- Marriott is depositing elite nights into the accounts of members in China. The China market has not fully recovered.
- Many of you are traveling to Japan, which has really only just lifted its masking requirement. Some Japanese turn to smiling lessons as society begins to go maskless.
“With mask wearing having become the norm, people have had fewer opportunities to smile, and more and more people have developed a complex about it,” said Keiko Kawano, 49, the smile trainer who served as the instructor for the lesson.
“Moving and relaxing the facial muscles is the key to making a good smile,” she said. Participants used hand mirrors to check their smiles.
What do they want them to do, cancel the flight? Stuff breaks sometimes. Suck it up and be thankful if that’s your biggest problem of the day.
If it doesn’t move and it should, WD-40. If it moves and it shouldn’t, duct tape.
I agree with David. I’m just surprised that more tray tables don’t break considering how badly some passengers treat them. You did the right thing and reported it to a flight attendant and they provided you with a temporary fix without inconveniencing a ton of other passengers. Subsequently, the flight attendant would file a report and the problem would be fixed at the next lengthy stopover. I’d be interested to see how United responded after you gave them your flight details.
That duct tape incident is on Air Wisconsin.
Considering the tape was FAA approved (look at the blue writing on the tape) and had an yellow MEL inop sticker with the prescribed terminology for the MEL I think this passenger embellished his story and in fact a maintenance tech came on, taped it up and deferred it in the logbook as is SOP. Don’t ever take pax social media at face value!
You didnt bother to note that United replied asking passenger for confirmation number. Im sure he was compensated for the inconvenience.
It sounds like this entitled passenger wanted United to profusely apologize upgrade him to first, give him a $$$ compensation, hence the attempted social media shaming including the VFTW tabloid exposure.
I try to smile at as many people as I can in a day. It masks my otherwise bad attitude.
@Dan77W: To help aircraft depart on time, if airlines would leave a roll of FAA-approved speed tape and some yellow sticky notes next to the toilet paper, passengers could self-repair many broken items. The citation to the F.A.R. on the tape seems to refer to a flammability standard. When flying, do you prefer to be seated in non-smoking, smoking, or burnt beyond recognition?
Read more: https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/AC_25.853-1.pdf
The duct tape story goes out of its way to crap on United. First off, it’s Air Wisconsin – operating as United Express. And yes, Air Wisconsin kinda sucks. But, that said, this is vastly blown out of proportion. People do abuse the seats and Air Wisconsin’s fleet is old and worn to begin with.
But again Gary, way to go in spinning this to bash United – again.
@Ken A
Yes that is precisely the tape that we use to tape crap up in the cabin (broken overhead bin, busted armrests and yes tray tables) BECAUSE it’s not flammable! Thats the point. It isn’t duct tape, and we use that interior cabin tape to “secure” a tray table like this in the up position per the MEL and AMM.
Inflight they don’t have a mechanic available. Preflight, do you really want a 20 minute delay (5 for the fix and 15 for government paperwork). Your fellow pax would be so happy for you.