Scolded by FA for using the call button.
Sep 28, 2022, 9:18 am
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Wanted to circle back on this with a different perspective since my other reply. If you know me, you know I don't complain for anything but this drove me nuts.
I was in D1 on DL131 the other day. It was about a 10 hour flight and for reasons unknown to me the right aisle had almost zero drink service. I blew out my vocal chords at Oktoberfest so I was dying for for something as cold and fizzy as possible to sooth my throat, but the only drink service that came down the right aisle was with both meals. Watched four movies and I know that during Inglorious Basterds the left aisle had three passes to the right aisles' zero. I was even waving my hand trying to get their attention but it was almost like they were comically turning their head in just the right way to not be able to make eye contact.
I fought the urge to hit the button and instead made six trips to the galley for a glass of ice and can of ginger ale and only got attitude the first time. I thought maybe each time I would do this that might trigger someone to come down the aisle but it didn't. Each time I'd walk back to my seat I'd catch the attention of another passenger who would shrug their shoulders and ask me if they were coming. Not a single person the entire flight hit the button and instead would just go up and get it themselves.
I was in D1 on DL131 the other day. It was about a 10 hour flight and for reasons unknown to me the right aisle had almost zero drink service. I blew out my vocal chords at Oktoberfest so I was dying for for something as cold and fizzy as possible to sooth my throat, but the only drink service that came down the right aisle was with both meals. Watched four movies and I know that during Inglorious Basterds the left aisle had three passes to the right aisles' zero. I was even waving my hand trying to get their attention but it was almost like they were comically turning their head in just the right way to not be able to make eye contact.
I fought the urge to hit the button and instead made six trips to the galley for a glass of ice and can of ginger ale and only got attitude the first time. I thought maybe each time I would do this that might trigger someone to come down the aisle but it didn't. Each time I'd walk back to my seat I'd catch the attention of another passenger who would shrug their shoulders and ask me if they were coming. Not a single person the entire flight hit the button and instead would just go up and get it themselves.
Sep 28, 2022, 9:42 am
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View From The Wing / Boarding Area has published a blog post on this incident. OP should definitely fire off an email now that this service failure has a bright light shined on it.
https://viewfromthewing.com/delta-pa...m=BoardingArea
https://viewfromthewing.com/delta-pa...m=BoardingArea
Has anyone seen the Points Guy UK videos when they fly? They do a "Call Bell Challenge" to see who gets a drink first... I mean, that's a horrible answer from her.
Sep 28, 2022, 10:33 am
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Wow.... I can't believe the head of the Flight Attendants group says that you shouldn't use the call button to ask for a drink. I mean, it's a "call button"... right?
Has anyone seen the Points Guy UK videos when they fly? They do a "Call Bell Challenge" to see who gets a drink first... I mean, that's a horrible answer from her.
Has anyone seen the Points Guy UK videos when they fly? They do a "Call Bell Challenge" to see who gets a drink first... I mean, that's a horrible answer from her.
She can probably do the math of 6 flight attendants on a plane with 300 people.
Sep 28, 2022, 2:38 pm
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Sep 28, 2022, 4:18 pm
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Sep 28, 2022, 5:15 pm
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This was not a rookie crew, these were well seasoned FAs.
The flight to ZRH the week before the crew was pacing up and down the aisle non-stop with bottle of red and white in each hand topping people off. Sometimes you get a good crew on a good day, sometimes you get a bad crew on a bad day I guess.
Sep 28, 2022, 7:42 pm
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In all honesty it would have been. Like mentioned in an earlier comment I asked for two in order to speed life along and that was interpreted as a double/quadruple. There was so much bourbon in it they were only able to put 1-2 ounces of coke in the glass. They realized what I meant so they then got another glass put a little coke in it and then tossed the two back in forth in an attempt to balance it out - but it instead just fizzed up and spilled all over the place.
This was not a rookie crew, these were well seasoned FAs.
The flight to ZRH the week before the crew was pacing up and down the aisle non-stop with bottle of red and white in each hand topping people off. Sometimes you get a good crew on a good day, sometimes you get a bad crew on a bad day I guess.
This was not a rookie crew, these were well seasoned FAs.
The flight to ZRH the week before the crew was pacing up and down the aisle non-stop with bottle of red and white in each hand topping people off. Sometimes you get a good crew on a good day, sometimes you get a bad crew on a bad day I guess.
Sep 28, 2022, 7:45 pm
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Sep 28, 2022, 7:47 pm
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In the era of video bloggers you'd think crew would know to be on their best behavior. I watched one recently with a particularly nasty Air Canada crew and he posted it in real time. He had an AC agent meeting him when he got off the flight to apologize.
Sep 28, 2022, 8:03 pm
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I’d file a complaint, I got scolded by a gate agent in ATL a few days before Christmas in 2020 and I wrote in and got a good response containing 12,500 miles. Was trying to board a CRJ900 from ATL-GPT and the GA was trying to get me to pink tag my carry on and I told her that the bag fits on the CR9, still insistent I scan my BP again to get a pink tag so I repeat myself, she then yells at me “MR XXXX SCAN IT AGAIN NOW I AM NOT CHASING AFTER YOU WITH MY BROKEN FOOT IF IT DOESNT FIT”. I scanned my BP, got the pink tag to avoid escalating, and just took it on anyway. Got on the plane and what do you know, it fits just like I said it would!
Sep 29, 2022, 5:54 am
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Have they returned the after dinner wines? On my last TATL D1 flight, there was sadly no Port.
