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Old Jul 27, 2007 | 9:14 am
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Originally Posted by hans
I have been on a flight, seated in the exit row, where a FA moved a passenger because she could not reply in English. She was quite elderly as well.
as was i....theordore sfo-las with an eldery woman from india next to me in 11e. her son was one row up in 10d and when the f/a came by with "the speech" (no, not that one ), elderly mom juts had a blank stare. f/a asked twice more and got 2 more blank stares until the son turned over the seat back and spoke to her in hindi. bingo! mom said yes in a split-second and bingo again as the f/a moved mom as she obviously could not understand english. the son started to b, m & g so she moved them both-such a good f/a as she got them seats together (in the last row) .
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