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Aug 17, 2012, 10:16 am
#751
Join Date: Aug 2012
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Happened to me just this Monday evening:
Wasn't that big of a deal but I was coming home from an all-day job interview (13 meetings, several of conference calls with people overseas) a couple states away on my second flight to get home and just generally tired. So I board the erj-145 and sit down, near the back, aisle seat on the two side of the plane and a lady sits down right across the aisle on the one side.
She then turns to me and says "What I'm about to say will tell that I don't fly very often (I think oh great, here we go), but does it seem odd to you that there is one seat on one side of the plane and two seats on the other?" I, like I said before was tired, gave a deadpan look and said "mmm, no" then turned facing the seat-back, closed my eyes and prayed she wasn't a nervous flyer and need to talk to someone throughout the flight.
Wasn't that big of a deal but I was coming home from an all-day job interview (13 meetings, several of conference calls with people overseas) a couple states away on my second flight to get home and just generally tired. So I board the erj-145 and sit down, near the back, aisle seat on the two side of the plane and a lady sits down right across the aisle on the one side.
She then turns to me and says "What I'm about to say will tell that I don't fly very often (I think oh great, here we go), but does it seem odd to you that there is one seat on one side of the plane and two seats on the other?" I, like I said before was tired, gave a deadpan look and said "mmm, no" then turned facing the seat-back, closed my eyes and prayed she wasn't a nervous flyer and need to talk to someone throughout the flight.
Aug 17, 2012, 10:32 am
#752
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Join Date: Feb 2012
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Happened to me just this Monday evening:
Wasn't that big of a deal but I was coming home from an all-day job interview (13 meetings, several of conference calls with people overseas) a couple states away on my second flight to get home and just generally tired. So I board the erj-145 and sit down, near the back, aisle seat on the two side of the plane and a lady sits down right across the aisle on the one side.
She then turns to me and says "What I'm about to say will tell that I don't fly very often (I think oh great, here we go), but does it seem odd to you that there is one seat on one side of the plane and two seats on the other?" I, like I said before was tired, gave a deadpan look and said "mmm, no" then turned facing the seat-back, closed my eyes and prayed she wasn't a nervous flyer and need to talk to someone throughout the flight.
Wasn't that big of a deal but I was coming home from an all-day job interview (13 meetings, several of conference calls with people overseas) a couple states away on my second flight to get home and just generally tired. So I board the erj-145 and sit down, near the back, aisle seat on the two side of the plane and a lady sits down right across the aisle on the one side.
She then turns to me and says "What I'm about to say will tell that I don't fly very often (I think oh great, here we go), but does it seem odd to you that there is one seat on one side of the plane and two seats on the other?" I, like I said before was tired, gave a deadpan look and said "mmm, no" then turned facing the seat-back, closed my eyes and prayed she wasn't a nervous flyer and need to talk to someone throughout the flight.
Aug 17, 2012, 2:01 pm
#753
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Posts: 3,098
Happened to me just this Monday evening:
Wasn't that big of a deal but I was coming home from an all-day job interview (13 meetings, several of conference calls with people overseas) a couple states away on my second flight to get home and just generally tired. So I board the erj-145 and sit down, near the back, aisle seat on the two side of the plane and a lady sits down right across the aisle on the one side.
She then turns to me and says "What I'm about to say will tell that I don't fly very often (I think oh great, here we go), but does it seem odd to you that there is one seat on one side of the plane and two seats on the other?" I, like I said before was tired, gave a deadpan look and said "mmm, no" then turned facing the seat-back, closed my eyes and prayed she wasn't a nervous flyer and need to talk to someone throughout the flight.
Wasn't that big of a deal but I was coming home from an all-day job interview (13 meetings, several of conference calls with people overseas) a couple states away on my second flight to get home and just generally tired. So I board the erj-145 and sit down, near the back, aisle seat on the two side of the plane and a lady sits down right across the aisle on the one side.
She then turns to me and says "What I'm about to say will tell that I don't fly very often (I think oh great, here we go), but does it seem odd to you that there is one seat on one side of the plane and two seats on the other?" I, like I said before was tired, gave a deadpan look and said "mmm, no" then turned facing the seat-back, closed my eyes and prayed she wasn't a nervous flyer and need to talk to someone throughout the flight.
Aug 17, 2012, 2:06 pm
#754
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My own sister was visiting me in LA, saw the San Gabriel mountains to the east, and asked me if they were the Rockies.
Aug 17, 2012, 2:47 pm
#755
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Originally Posted by Flubber2012
On my first trip on a DC-9 (circa 1970 somthing), I also was surprised at 2-3 seating. I'm now a highly compensated physician. Your point?
compensated anything.
Sep 25, 2012, 7:36 am
#756
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 595
Politics aside, this wins the thread IMO:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...ow-remark.html
Originally Posted by Mitt Romney
When you have a fire in an aircraft, theres no place to go, exactly, theres no and you cant find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows dont open. I dont know why they dont do that. Its a real problem.
Sep 25, 2012, 8:42 am
#757
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: MOB
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Posts: 50
If Romney claimed to have any aeronautical experience, I'd fault him for such a remark.
The truth is, though, he is just a guy whose wife had to make an emergency landing due to smoke in the cabin. So, like most people, his first thought was why can't something be done to prevent this sort of situation.
Of course, there are windows in the flight deck on airliners that do open - albeit not in pressurized flight!
The truth is, though, he is just a guy whose wife had to make an emergency landing due to smoke in the cabin. So, like most people, his first thought was why can't something be done to prevent this sort of situation.
Of course, there are windows in the flight deck on airliners that do open - albeit not in pressurized flight!
Sep 25, 2012, 9:49 am
#758
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 595
If Romney claimed to have any aeronautical experience, I'd fault him for such a remark.
The truth is, though, he is just a guy whose wife had to make an emergency landing due to smoke in the cabin. So, like most people, his first thought was why can't something be done to prevent this sort of situation.
Of course, there are windows in the flight deck on airliners that do open - albeit not in pressurized flight!
The truth is, though, he is just a guy whose wife had to make an emergency landing due to smoke in the cabin. So, like most people, his first thought was why can't something be done to prevent this sort of situation.
Of course, there are windows in the flight deck on airliners that do open - albeit not in pressurized flight!
Sep 25, 2012, 11:14 am
#759
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: トロント
Programs: IHG Gold
Posts: 4,822
Happened to me just this Monday evening:
Wasn't that big of a deal but I was coming home from an all-day job interview (13 meetings, several of conference calls with people overseas) a couple states away on my second flight to get home and just generally tired. So I board the erj-145 and sit down, near the back, aisle seat on the two side of the plane and a lady sits down right across the aisle on the one side.
She then turns to me and says "What I'm about to say will tell that I don't fly very often (I think oh great, here we go), but does it seem odd to you that there is one seat on one side of the plane and two seats on the other?" I, like I said before was tired, gave a deadpan look and said "mmm, no" then turned facing the seat-back, closed my eyes and prayed she wasn't a nervous flyer and need to talk to someone throughout the flight.
Wasn't that big of a deal but I was coming home from an all-day job interview (13 meetings, several of conference calls with people overseas) a couple states away on my second flight to get home and just generally tired. So I board the erj-145 and sit down, near the back, aisle seat on the two side of the plane and a lady sits down right across the aisle on the one side.
She then turns to me and says "What I'm about to say will tell that I don't fly very often (I think oh great, here we go), but does it seem odd to you that there is one seat on one side of the plane and two seats on the other?" I, like I said before was tired, gave a deadpan look and said "mmm, no" then turned facing the seat-back, closed my eyes and prayed she wasn't a nervous flyer and need to talk to someone throughout the flight.
Sep 27, 2012, 10:11 am
#760
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: NYC
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Sep 27, 2012, 10:13 am
#761
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This is no joke but heard on two of my Pacific flights in the past year:
1. Two American girls who had just vacationed in Sydney. "I was going to buy all my friends a calendar with Australian animals but realized that Australia is a day a head of us. Had to take them all back and buy magnets instead."
1. Two American girls who had just vacationed in Sydney. "I was going to buy all my friends a calendar with Australian animals but realized that Australia is a day a head of us. Had to take them all back and buy magnets instead."
Sep 27, 2012, 10:17 am
#762
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Does this depend on the airline/country? I rarely need to use my phone right away, but on almost every flight I've taken I recall phones being allowed after landing (once on the taxiway), but on a recent Virgin LHR-JFK trip they announced that cellphone use was prohibited until we were at the gate. I remember thinking it was odd.
Sep 27, 2012, 10:42 am
#763
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Posts: 5,439
Sep 27, 2012, 10:45 am
#764
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Manchester, UK
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Does this depend on the airline/country? I rarely need to use my phone right away, but on almost every flight I've taken I recall phones being allowed after landing (once on the taxiway), but on a recent Virgin LHR-JFK trip they announced that cellphone use was prohibited until we were at the gate. I remember thinking it was odd.
Sep 27, 2012, 11:21 am
#765
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 13,573
For old WASPy me, it is perfectly logical that Monday is the first day of the week, as 'on the seventh day he rested', and Sunday is the day of rest.
(I appreciate other religions disagree!)