favorite dumb pax comments
Apr 20, 2012, 6:39 am
#676
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Apr 20, 2012, 11:34 am
#677
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Apr 20, 2012, 4:02 pm
#678
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Apr 20, 2012, 4:24 pm
#679
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Don't think there is a manual for being CIVILIZED. There are attributes in all peoples that are civilized , but also not so civilized...
Apr 21, 2012, 4:01 am
#681
Join Date: Sep 2010
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Not a pax question but a friend of a friend of a friend wanted me to tell him why, if the earth is round and the plane is flying level, doesn't it fly off into space. Had to explain that the pilots put the plane into a very slight, unnoticeable dive just to keep it flying the same distance off the ground.
Apr 21, 2012, 4:04 am
#682
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ok -- the rest of the story -- I figured my only chance was to keep her distracted from what was going on around her, so I started asking her questions - what she did, where she was from, etc - for the full 90 minute flight. Learned she was a nurse from Omaha in town for a conference, a runner, had an Aunt in DC that she was close to, loved dogs, hated her boss, had two brothers, drove a volvo, etc - pretty much got her whole life story.
Consider it a victory - she didn't need the airsickness bag on either takeoff or landing. And I scored a date with her Aunt the next week ...
Consider it a victory - she didn't need the airsickness bag on either takeoff or landing. And I scored a date with her Aunt the next week ...
Apr 21, 2012, 6:58 am
#683
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Anchorage
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I had a new employee tell me that he didn't like our corporate airline choices of AA or UA, and that he'd much rather fly WN. After slapping him repeatedly to bring him to his senses, I calmly explained that only hillbillies and Texans fly WN. After gaining status on a real airline for the first time later that year, he understood how wrong he had been.
Apr 21, 2012, 7:32 am
#684
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Not airplane pax, but ...
Back when I was guiding whitewater rafting trips, I was amazed by how many passengers did not understand the idea of a shuttle to drive back from the take-out point on the river. I got comments such as "Why don't we just end at the same place we started?" not just once but on a regular basis.
Back when I was guiding whitewater rafting trips, I was amazed by how many passengers did not understand the idea of a shuttle to drive back from the take-out point on the river. I got comments such as "Why don't we just end at the same place we started?" not just once but on a regular basis.
Apr 21, 2012, 8:53 am
#685
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Not airplane pax, but ...
Back when I was guiding whitewater rafting trips, I was amazed by how many passengers did not understand the idea of a shuttle to drive back from the take-out point on the river. I got comments such as "Why don't we just end at the same place we started?" not just once but on a regular basis.
Back when I was guiding whitewater rafting trips, I was amazed by how many passengers did not understand the idea of a shuttle to drive back from the take-out point on the river. I got comments such as "Why don't we just end at the same place we started?" not just once but on a regular basis.
You mean we can't paddle back to where we started?
Apr 21, 2012, 1:21 pm
#686
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Not airplane pax, but ...
Back when I was guiding whitewater rafting trips, I was amazed by how many passengers did not understand the idea of a shuttle to drive back from the take-out point on the river. I got comments such as "Why don't we just end at the same place we started?" not just once but on a regular basis.
Back when I was guiding whitewater rafting trips, I was amazed by how many passengers did not understand the idea of a shuttle to drive back from the take-out point on the river. I got comments such as "Why don't we just end at the same place we started?" not just once but on a regular basis.
Apr 22, 2012, 11:52 am
#687
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OK, marginal aviation events.
At the parachuting club I used to be a member of, it was common for "first-timers" (usually only-timers as well) to bring their families down to watch.
In between these novice jumps we, the regulars, would get the aircraft up to 10,000 feet for ourselves, and this was watched with interest.
To us : "Is the parachute automarically opened for you from that height as well ?" "No, a static line that's 8,000 feet long hasn't been invented yet".
To each other : "Up at 10,000 feet that's difficult to breathe, isn't it ?" "Oh no, the aircraft is pressurised ....".
At the parachuting club I used to be a member of, it was common for "first-timers" (usually only-timers as well) to bring their families down to watch.
In between these novice jumps we, the regulars, would get the aircraft up to 10,000 feet for ourselves, and this was watched with interest.
To us : "Is the parachute automarically opened for you from that height as well ?" "No, a static line that's 8,000 feet long hasn't been invented yet".
To each other : "Up at 10,000 feet that's difficult to breathe, isn't it ?" "Oh no, the aircraft is pressurised ....".
Apr 23, 2012, 1:03 pm
#688
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In the late 1960s, at an airport far, far away, I worked as a ramp agent while I was a student. Out of courtesy, I helped a l'il ole lady up the steps, into the aircraft and to her seat. She looked suspiciously at the seat and then she looked (equally suspiciously) at me.
"Where is my parachute?", quoth she. I replied that parachutes were not carried on civilian airliners, but there was a life jacket stowed under the seat, and that the crew would explain to her and the rest of the passengers when and how to use it.
Harrumphing her disgust, she pushed past me, ran the gauntlet of the rest of the passengers trying to climb the steps, and demanded to be taken back to the terminal building.
It took 40 minutes to mollify her and to get her seated again.
"Where is my parachute?", quoth she. I replied that parachutes were not carried on civilian airliners, but there was a life jacket stowed under the seat, and that the crew would explain to her and the rest of the passengers when and how to use it.
Harrumphing her disgust, she pushed past me, ran the gauntlet of the rest of the passengers trying to climb the steps, and demanded to be taken back to the terminal building.
It took 40 minutes to mollify her and to get her seated again.
May 1, 2012, 3:36 pm
#689
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My excuse: I was 21 at the time.
May 1, 2012, 3:45 pm
#690
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I was flying from Fort Lauderdale to New Orleans and actually called the airline to ask why it takes one hour to get there and three hours to return. The rep just said to me, "I'm going to let you think about that for a bit and maybe you'll figure it out." And I did!
My excuse: I was 21 at the time.
My excuse: I was 21 at the time.