News and notes from around the interweb:
- In fairness, many passengers are – in fact – stupid.
Paperwork rejected by engineering. Brought the jet bridge in, added white tape to mark where they put the red tape. Took photo with their phones. @united flight attendants talk loudly with gate agent about how stupid passengers are. pic.twitter.com/CMzViGH3ZK
— Andy Hawk (@cuskibum) October 4, 2024
- Delta is growing to 968 peak daily flights out of Atlanta for summer 2025. Southwest Airlines, which once acquired Atlanta-based AirTran, is massively pulling back there. This move isn’t just about greater hub connectivity of course… it lets Delta grab freed up Southwest Airlines gates and keep out new competition.
This isn’t the largest hub operation ever, of course. American Airlines, for instance, broke 1,000 flights for Thanksgiving 2019 at DFW adding a middle of the night bank.
- Chase Sapphire Reserve cardholders have new access to Air Canada lounges when flying on a Star Alliance flight. 17 lounges are included, guests cost fifty nine of whatever the local currency is. Show your card with boarding pass for entry.
And you definitely want to eat in the lounge because this is what you’d buy on board:
I was robbed on an Air Canada flight
byu/Professional_Trip217 inaircanada - Marriott rooms manager: don’t expect a better upgrade than the bride if you book in a wedding party’s block (HT: H.G.)
If you are at a hotel for a wedding, and you want a suite, I can’t give you a better suite than whatever the bride has. A basic suite or any suite under the category that the bride has? If I have it available, sure! But trust me, it’s best for everyone involved if we keep the brides happy.
- Oh, Air India
Found a cockroach in the omelette served to me on the @airindia flight from Delhi to New York. My 2 year old finished more than half of it with me when we found this. Suffered from food poisoning as a result. @DGCAIndia @RamMNK pic.twitter.com/1Eyc3wt3Xw
— Suyesha Savant (@suyeshasavant) September 28, 2024
- The annual LAX holiday moratorium on film, TV and commercial shoots starts earlier than usual this year
- 25% off Southwest Airlines awards this weekend.
In a job that requires a lot of decorum like flight attendant you don’t talk about how stupid your customers are in front of those same customers.
Since when have talking coke machines displayed decorum. Most of the US carriers are fat, loud, and stupid. Like the passengers, I’ve never witnessed such pathetic slobs in my life.
And they demand a 6-figure salary, for a talking coke machine!
Bugs in food is a thing that happens. You don’t want to know what the acceptable level of rat feces in cereal is.
Extremely unlikely that anyone gets food poisoning because there was a bug in their food. It’s un-appetizing, but not hazardous. Somebody just angling for clicks.
In fairness, most (not just many) FAs are stupid. How else can you go through life doing an unskilled labor job extremely poorly, while convincing yourself your job is super important?
Mantis
Bet you couldn’t even pass basic FA training.
Yeah the course on pouring half a drink and fellating pilots sounds really rigorous.
@Ron Mexico – Are you making childish troll comments or speaking from experience?
@EgE
Obviously you’re one of those idiot FAs that’s butt hurt about the reality of your chosen “profession”. Yeah 2 weeks of training, that’s really rigorous. Much more difficult than an engineering degree and a masters degree, for sure. The part where they teach you how to constantly have an RBF and browse on your phone while supposedly working will be especially tough to master, but pretty sure I can do it…except that life is too short to do menial labor that literally anyone can do, so no thanks.
@Mantis-
Who told you the training is 2 weeks? Don’t think there’s an airline that trains for only two weeks, interesting. In any case, most FA’s are college educated and come from different professions… we have plenty of lawyers, nurses, doctors, educators, etc. that came for a different lifestyle or as a side job.
The job isn’t hard. We brag about how we have the easiest job in the world, sure, anybody could do the physical, tangible labor. The challenging part that everyone cannot do, including slobs like yourself, is dealing with the vermin that are the traveling public. People completely devoid of common sense, that pull on ash-trays in the door when the bathroom door says “Push” – people that open closed overhead bins whilst the PA is saying “closed bins are full” people that ask for black coffee and then say “with milk and sugar???” when they’re handed their coffee.
The challenging part is dealing with people, that, out of an aircraft of 200+ passengers, think they’re the only passenger on the plane and feel incredibly entitled to take away from other passengers, like 2x of each of the 3 complimentary snacks. The challenging part is being away from home on holidays, birthdays, funerals, etc. to come to work to deal with vermin like you.
However, I can make around $5k a month by only working 5 days a month. I control my schedule. I have more days off than anybody that I know, because I say so. That is why so many of us came to do this job and left another more “real” job. 90% of the people I worked with in my previous career would never be able to handle the people that we handle with the grace that we do.
@ Trina. Yes, whoever told Mantis that flight attendant training takes two weeks was mistaken. Flight Safety International., an industry leader in aviation training, and others offer three (3) day ab initio flight attendant training courses. The courses, which include overwater operations and safety procedures are offered at various training locations throughout the year. The client is expected to complete approximately 40 hours of online CBT before attending the course. Should the client desire to learn some of the finer points of inflight catering, that takes an additional day. The curriculum is stated to be accepted by crew staffing agencies.