News and notes from around the interweb:
- Employees chilling in the cargo hold happens! A drunk American Airlines baggage handler once fell asleep in the cargo hold and wound up flying to Chicago. A United Airlines baggage handler once got trapped in there and flew to DC. And, physical risks aside, it’s not the most pleasant place to be – British Airways once had to remind their staff to stop urinating the cargo holds.
@AmericanAir employee hard at work pic.twitter.com/5cOLfy8u7y
— booboothafool (@lebooboofool) December 1, 2024
- Europe Lifts Pakistan International Airlines Flight Ban
- WWE Women’s Champion slams TSA after alleged ‘fondling’ incident
Nothing like a good old fashion TSA fondling in the morning. I wonder how many TSA people take the job just to touch random people’s private parts for a living
— Lina Fanene (@LinaFanene) November 29, 2024
They teach you as a kid not to let strangers touch, especially in your private parts, yet I have to stand there in front of everyone and just let a random @TSA agent rub mine . Gross
— Lina Fanene (@LinaFanene) November 29, 2024
- Okey dokey not everyone likes the Spirit Airlines restructuring.
- Pilot Sent Cabin Crew Flying When He Tried to Open the Cockpit Door But Grabbed The Wrong Switch And Made the Plane Roll
- “If you give a mouse a pizza”
Speaking of fondling, as one door closes another door opens. Joe Biden back ground experience is a shoe in for this job.
Airlines like British Airways should provide passengers with a free pictograph sticker featuring a trilingual message that reads, “DO NOT PEE ON THIS CHECKED LUGGAGE.” A visual depiction of a baggage handler urinating on luggage and a red slash inside a circle would be more effective in preventing urine-soaked luggage than adding a standard “FRAGILE” sticker. Adding a no-pee sticker is an effective warning to luggage handlers to avoid urinating on checked passenger bags stored in the aircraft cargo hold.
Have you looked at the link to the Spirit airlines bankruptcy??
Some very p**sed off shareholders!!
God bless America!!
Its been known for a while that the ramp agents can hook the gate agents up with anything you need. Anything.
@ Gary — Well, too bad for Spirirt shareholders. They are supposed to be lowest priority.
Not sure what the SAVE shareholders are looking for. The company was trading at near-BK levels for awhile; what did they think would happen in a Ch 11 reorg?
The T, were you dropped.on your head at birth or suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome?
Shares are equity not debt. Bankruptcy can reduce shareholders equity to zero. That does not get rid of any debt but opens a way to get new money from a new set of owners or shareholders. Right now Spirit Airlines shares are going for $0.65 which means most people think that they have very little value. A few days last week they were less than a quarter of that.
thank god you can’t see what goes on IN the pit/belly of a plane! The Embraer 170-series is pretty damn comfy when its 100* outside and the ac is pushin out what feels like subarctic air 🙂 There are days the loaders hope the bag runners are late.
@Dman
+1 here
I think he was. Or, home-schooled.
You want the next Amazon/Netflix/Tesla, so you buy Spirit thinking you’r,e getting in early. But, you make a potentially killing because early means risky. The 100-1 horse makes you a lot if it wins, because it’s so unlikely to do so. So, you invest in a long shot hoping for a big return, and guess what, the long shot fails. And, your response is that it isn’t fair that debt holders, who wouldn’t get the big gain if the bet came through, shouldn’t be in front of you in the bankruptcy? Don’t invest outside well diversified ETF if you don’t understand the rules.
I don’t know (nor care) who Lina Fanene is, but she is definitely a colossal idiot and a Karen.
In the U.S. I work as a cargo loader. I’ve worked on regional, narrow body and wide body planes. Since my coworkers have frequent access to restrooms and even the aircraft lavatory if necessary: I don’t see it likely to catch one of my coworkers in the act. Nor would I want to if they were a guy.
I will say that one of my colleagues talked about needing to use the lav while out on the ramp and it was blisteringly cold out. I was slightly concerned that they might have created an ice hazard by making a mess of the ramp. They made it safely to the facilities and life goes on as normal but never heard of people doing that honestly.