Weird or just plain incorrect things FAs/SDs have said while on board
Apr 26, 2015, 6:07 pm
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Apr 26, 2015, 6:11 pm
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I am a white guy so clearly not Japanese (although I do speak it). I was in my early 30s but looked pretty young. Don't think she meant to be racist. I spent the next few years on JAL but recently returned to AC because of more domestic travel.
Apr 26, 2015, 6:21 pm
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I have friends who are Caucasian who were born in Japan and are Japanese to the core, so she's assuming you're not because you're Caucasian and that's the definition of racism, no? If that were me, I would have gone LIVID.
Apr 26, 2015, 6:37 pm
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I guess after living in Japan for a long time and having being subject to real racism (although hardly the racism that non-Caucasians can experience here), I just found it amusing. But I see your point. To be honest, there are many times being young and white worked to my advantage. In those days (before the formal status programs) when I was not travelling J (i.e. coming home for holidays on my own dime) I was often upgraded on the NRT YVR route. I am sure that being a well dressed (always wore a suit because I usually went straight to NRT from the office) young white guy who could flirt politely in Japanese with the female Japanese check-in agents at NRT was the main reason why. So I can't really complain about the Japanese meal incident! It works both ways.
Apr 26, 2015, 11:04 pm
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My only other weird one was standing on the ramp at GRU, I decided to take a few pics of my UA GRU-IAH aircraft after we got bussed over. I didn't step out of line or behind a cone or anything. I got a very stern finger wag and "Nao permissao" or something close to that. Not sure what he was so uptight about.
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Apr 27, 2015, 1:59 am
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Same situation with a FA who said she was only allowed to serve 1 shot per hour. After I pressed her about the issue she reluctantly backed down. If she cited smartserve I'd be fine with it but making up rules drives me up the wall. Stop lying! (directed to AC staff)
. Also missed out on pancakes seating in 3F, run out I guess.Some of the "misspeaks" are intentional and not ignorance.
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Apr 27, 2015, 3:04 am
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My opinion, in J, is that if you come to me when I'm in my seat, and ask if I can trade with you, your spouse, or your friend, I will say yes, unless:
1. On a narrow-body, you want me to trade my bulkhead for a non-bulkhead
2. On a wide-body, you want me to give up a window seat for a non-window seat (noting that 5AK on the 787 are marketed as "window" but aren't really)
3. On the HD, you want me to move into a 2 person window section, or into the throne seat when I want to sleep.
If you sit down in my seat and ask if I can take yours instead, the answer is no unless your seat is better (in my opinion).
On my last flight, I sat in my assigned 2C, a man came and sat down into 2A, then asked me if I'd mind trading with his wife in 1F. That was no issue, because he was polite, not forceful, and I remained in a bulkhead.
If I'd boarded to find her in my seat, I would have said "no, I want a bulkhead aisle that isn't too close to the galley", and then there's no other option they can give me
1. On a narrow-body, you want me to trade my bulkhead for a non-bulkhead
2. On a wide-body, you want me to give up a window seat for a non-window seat (noting that 5AK on the 787 are marketed as "window" but aren't really)
3. On the HD, you want me to move into a 2 person window section, or into the throne seat when I want to sleep.
If you sit down in my seat and ask if I can take yours instead, the answer is no unless your seat is better (in my opinion).
On my last flight, I sat in my assigned 2C, a man came and sat down into 2A, then asked me if I'd mind trading with his wife in 1F. That was no issue, because he was polite, not forceful, and I remained in a bulkhead.
If I'd boarded to find her in my seat, I would have said "no, I want a bulkhead aisle that isn't too close to the galley", and then there's no other option they can give me
Apr 27, 2015, 3:09 am
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Oh, and I am just waiting for FWPP to chime in and arrest us all.
Apr 27, 2015, 6:55 am
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When AC started flying direct to Japan - this would have been right after
taking over the routes from CP - it was about 2 years later that they started
serving Jpanese Kaiseki meals. The first few times I tried to order them, I was also told they were reserved for Japanese pax. I tolerated that
the first time I heard that - never again after that.
Apr 27, 2015, 7:32 am
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None of mine ever have. I don't bother anymore.
(and you're the one with the AC FA GF, right? and in case others begin flaming this information is public here on this forum already - I just forgot who it pertains to)