Baggage may fall out of overhead compartments...
Oct 1, 2007, 8:52 pm
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Baggage may fall out of overhead compartments...
Friend of mine just did YUL-YYZ-SCL on 427/92 last week.
YUL-YYZ on 427 the 24th operated a couple hours late so he missed the connection and got put in a hotel, then had a day to see YYZ, which he didn't really mind so much.
92 is almost always a little late out of YYZ - it's scheduled for 23:30 but gets off at 00:30 give or take a bit - but my friend told me that on the 25th, er, early morning of the 26th, they got everyone aboard, and then a suitcase fell on an FA's head! so they de-boarded a half-dozen pax (due to being short crew?), which cost them another hour.
(Apparently they tried to get him to be one of the half-dozen, but he told them he was already a day late...)
Hope the FA is okay! Of all the luck!
YUL-YYZ on 427 the 24th operated a couple hours late so he missed the connection and got put in a hotel, then had a day to see YYZ, which he didn't really mind so much.
92 is almost always a little late out of YYZ - it's scheduled for 23:30 but gets off at 00:30 give or take a bit - but my friend told me that on the 25th, er, early morning of the 26th, they got everyone aboard, and then a suitcase fell on an FA's head! so they de-boarded a half-dozen pax (due to being short crew?), which cost them another hour.
(Apparently they tried to get him to be one of the half-dozen, but he told them he was already a day late...)
Hope the FA is okay! Of all the luck!
Oct 2, 2007, 8:06 am
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Holy crap.
With the stuff that people put in their carry-ons, I wouldn't be surprised if she got a concussion. One of my friends once got hit in the head with stuff falling out of the overhead bin and he still gets pain in the neck once in a while. This was many years back.
Hope she recovers!
With the stuff that people put in their carry-ons, I wouldn't be surprised if she got a concussion. One of my friends once got hit in the head with stuff falling out of the overhead bin and he still gets pain in the neck once in a while. This was many years back.
Hope she recovers!
Oct 2, 2007, 9:01 am
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According to my friend, apparently she was hurt (or at least shaken) enough that she didn't work the flight. And it doesn't sound like they had a spare handy at that hour of the night. I guess that put them at/closer to minimum staffing levels, or whatever.