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Originally Posted by BigPoppaCO
(Post 11001731)
You are relatively new on these boards. Judging the tone in most of your posts, it comes as absolutely no surprise to me that you are a Newark based FA.
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Originally Posted by featheroleather
(Post 11017910)
This website,like many others (Match.com)has lots of people typing behind their keyboards,boasting and bragging and embellishing,Its called the Keyboard Commando syndrome. I get a kick out of reading some of the legitimate and not so legitimate complaints,but when I go to work,I never really encounter any real nastiness that this board festers.BTW,most EWR FA's commute,so that whole anti-east coast dig is weak.Every Airline thread has posts about fill in the blank being the rudest people on the planet.
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Originally Posted by BigPoppaCO
(Post 11018240)
I am confused. Are you saying I have this "Keyboard Commando Syndrome" or the miserable FA does? FWIW I am a born, bred and raised NY'er so I am pretty good at detecting attitude. I have flown enough on CO the past years 3 years to notice that the IAH based flight crews tend to be more customer friendly.
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Originally Posted by BigPoppaCO
(Post 10989475)
This is an amusing thread. Anyone here ever take their kids to Disney? We paid $150 an hour for a valet to take us around the whole park and more importantly, cut the lines. Worth every penny.
Pushing them around is free and will get you to the front of every line in the place. ^ |
Originally Posted by DMWT
(Post 10986153)
I was at dinner the other night and asked a couple of friends why they did not visit family in Europe for the holidays this year. They said that after last year's experience, they had to take a year off. Last year, they left Manhattan four hours before their once-a-day TATL flight on CO, only to have their cab get stuck in the Lincoln Tunnel for over two hours due to a wreck.
At EWR, they got to the insane security line 45 minutes before departure. A TSA guy told them the line would take 45-60 minutes to clear. At that point, they went searching for a helpful CO EWR employee (don't worry, none was found) to assist them navigating the security line. I believe the exact answer they finally received was "it's not my problem" (even though no seats were available on CO to their destination for three days). They then ran back to the TSA guy they originally had spoken to. He told them there was nothing he could do. Walking away, convinced they would miss their flight and possibly their entire trip, they were approached by another TSA employee who told them that if they would "help her", she would help them. She took them to the front of the line, apparently, with many knowing glances from other TSA employees, who must have gotten a cut of this woman's, um, initiative. After they cleared security, she went to shake my friend's hand, and they passed her $50. While bribery is horrible, not to mention illegal, I wonder who would not take that deal - pay $50 to get through security to hedge against a completely ruined vacation. Although no bad story about EWR really is that surprising, this seemed to be a new low. Perhaps I've missed a few threads, but I've never heard of someone having to commit a crime to catch their flight at EWR. A couple of questions: - Can't CO do something to help people on the verge of missing their flights through the security line? I'm assuming they can as I have seen it happen at IAH. Hell, even Air France did it for me (without my having to ask) in Paris when I had about 20 minutes to get a once-a-day connecting flight. - Has anyone in a bind been approached by a TSA employee with a similar offer? |
Originally Posted by jbatl
(Post 10986180)
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; PPC; 240x320))
I have regularly 'expedited' through security to the front of the U.S. immigration line in NAS by 'tipping' a skycap. Once, one told me straight out that I needed to 'tip' him sufficiently, because every airport employee we passed along the way (including security) gets a cut. Flame me if you will, but that's how it works there. Sometimes I think the whole country runs on tips. Never had any idea the same thing could happen in a U.S. airport with TSA. Truly astonishing. |
Originally Posted by broog
(Post 11019108)
I dont think that its fair or nice, but no crime was committed.
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Officially, TSA has no power before the TDC. The airlines have their own employees controlling access to the much-shorter first class line, and they sometimes pull late passengers from the main line depending on the situation. Military in uniform and passengers with babies are also usually allowed to use the first class line.
Every TSA employee knows that tips and gifts of any kind are unacceptable. If an item is confiscated, even if a passenger says "Please don't throw that away, just keep it for yourself so it doesn't go to waste.", that employee is still not allowed to keep it. TSA employees are in positions of public trust, and accepting even the smallest of gratuities or showing any kind of preferential treatment to any group is not allowed. Keeping anything offered by a passenger is grounds for termination. If anyone in any airport witnesses a TSA employee personally bring a passenger from the back of the line to the front....report it. Especially if you see this same passenger go up to the x-ray and walk through the metal detector. The only passengers that TSA might bring to the front are armed law enforcement officers....and they wouldn't go through the x-ray route. Talk to a supervisor, or better yet, ask for a customer comment card. As for the unscrupulous who are short on time and are desperately looking for someone to tip... Ask for a wheelchair runner while you're checking in with the airline. If you need an excuse, tell them you have a weak heart. Like Disneyland, everyone with a wheelchair goes straight to the front. Once you get to your gate, a measly $5 should do. I've even heard those guys grumble about some people who didn't tip them at all... |
Originally Posted by COEWRFA
(Post 11001088)
If you have a problem with my attitude then it's just that, YOUR problem. How one can express attitude through the internet is beyond me.
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Originally Posted by Steve GadFly
(Post 10988631)
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.6) Sprint:SPH-i325 320x240)NJ Transit trains are fast, cheap, reliable, and the hands-down best choice to get to EWR from New York and from a ton of places in Jersey.
Originally Posted by COEWRFA
(Post 10999995)
So all in all your friends left from the city giving themselves only 4 hours during rush hour traffic. [...] It amazes me to no end how you feel your friends weren't at fault and the people who should be arrestedis actually them. They were completely at fault for what they went through.
As for tipping a TSO to jump the queue, the difference between that and Clear is lost on me. |
Originally Posted by aviators99
(Post 11019431)
Are you a lawyer? A federal employee in a position of power *soliciting* money for preferential treatment of a citizen is not a crime?
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