About ten years ago, flying up (or down) the West Coast on an airline that's long since been merged into one of the biggies, the pilot explained that they didn't have a frequent flyer program like the big airlines. Instead, he said, after each flight you get a small yellow plastic disk. Collect ten yellow disks and you can turn them in for a red disk. Collect ten red disks and you can turn them in for a blue disk. Collect ten blue disks, and you can turn them in for a white disk. Collect...

I know it sounds silly now, but he had us rolling in the aisles before he was halfway through the Crayola list.

Coming from Boston, I didn't think I'd ever fly with them enough to earn even a red disk, so I didn't ask for my yellow one - but I'd bet he had a few in his pocket, just in case.

I once flew AS ANC/SEA on a perfectly crystal clear day in October. The pilot gave us an hour+ long history/geography/topgraphy lesson as we flew over the breathtaking glaciers, sparkling with new snow. This was the most amazing flight experience I have ever had or can even imagine (at least for those of us with port side window seats).

Flying out of Denver a year or so ago, we had a purser/flight attendant married couple serve us in in first who were absolutely hysterical. The purser's first announcement was not to be alarmed if you caught him smooching with the gorgeous blonde FA. It was ok because they had a smooching license. He had a great radio announcer type voice and a grand sense of humor.

Whenever we fly internationally, it is amusing to watch the senior crew turn into flirty young girls as they hover around Hunki. He has that effect on older women these days. Even younger women. Our daughter looked at me the other day and very seriously announced, "You know, Mom, Dad's a babe".

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Several years ago, when it was more fun to fly, we landed in Denver, bounced and touched down again. The flight attendent announced, "Welcome to Denver. We hope you enjoyed both of those landings..."

On another trip, the flight attendent included this in her pre-takeoff instructions, "In the event of a loss of cabin pressure, an oxygen mask will appear. Place the mask on your face...If you are traveling with small children, place the mask on your face first, then place the mask on the child. If you are traveling with more than one small child, place the mask on the child you love the most first".

I had the most fun on a United Express from ORD-Aspen several years ago. Everyone was in a party mood, and the FAs were very funny, including staging toilet paper races to the head. One line I still remember from the safety lecture is "If you are sitting with a child, or someone who is acting like a child...".

Just came across this old thread and wanted to add a couple of my experiences ...

On a UA DCA-ORD flight in mid '98 one of the flight attendants surprised us with a great rendition of the Star Spangled Banner upon landing at ORD. It was a little awkward, as we couldn't stand at attention, due to the fact we were still taxiing to the gate.

Also, probably my best CS experience, on a VERY delayed UA flight from ORD-MSY for New Year's 2001, the Gate attendants at ORD helped to pass the time and keep everyone in good spirits by playing Jeopardy with the passengers waiting to board. The prizes were the $25 CS certificates. I personally scored two of these, and didn't notice that another hour of our delay had passed.

Ahh, the good ol' days ...

On a TW flight a FA opened the seatbelt instructions with a perfectly deadpanned "for those of you who haven't been in a car since 1962"

The whole plane cracked up

Can't remember the flight, but during the announcements the FA said "the smoking section for this flight will be on the left wing, where the movie selection will be 'Gone With The Wind.' "

Also had an FA on a flight from BWI-ORD in April '02 with a beautiful singing voice. Very nice way to hear the announcements.




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"I just wanna wish you good luck, we're all counting on you"
-Dr. Rumack

Funny. I was just reading today about a couple women who are suing SWA because when they were boarding the plane, when trying to get the passengers to sit down, the FA said "Eenie, meenie, minie, moe....pick a seat, we gotta go!"
The two women who are African American say the rhyme was directed at them and was a reference to it's racist version that dates back to before the civil rights era.
Can you believe that? The poor FA, who was only 22 years old, says she's never even heard that version.

While not intentional, I had a flight attendant on a Delta flight that made a small error in announcing the movie. The correct name of the movie was Blow Dry. You can guess what got announced. I actually saw her on the same flight the next week and asked her about it. She told me that they sold more headphones on that flight then they ever had in the past.

For years there was a senior pilot with Alaska Airlines (can't remember the name - retired a couple years ago) who was a virtuoso on the harmonica, and would play it during the long flights. Never missed a Juneau approach either.

On SW in the late 80's (when everyone got the song reference) - "there may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 4 ways off this airplane."

And also on SW, after a bumpy flight and an extremely bumpy landing (accompanied by rattles in the overhead, falling coffee pots in the galley, etc.) - "It's our pleasure to welcome you to Houston. Please stay seated while the pilot taxis what's left of the airplane to the gate."

One time on an AA flight MIA-RDU the FA that was doing the safety demo in the aisle used a rubber chicken instead of the normal dummy seat belt. Everyone got a good kick out of it.

I was on an AS flight a couple years ago where the Pilots name was James T Kirk. The male FA did the entire schpiel in a perfect imitation of Scotty, and threw in a ton of Star Trek references. The entire plane applauded when he was done.

missydarlin, I love that Captain Kirk story!

Flew a short while ago on a Horizon Air flight (basically AS) and the FA sang all the instructions and announcements through the whole flight pretty much! To the tune of things like Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island, etc. She must have sang at least 4 or 5 songs, and said she had a repertoire of a dozen or more. I was sure that if I asked her about anything at all, she would have a little song to reply with! And I think we could have called out suggestions for the landing info tunes... and she would have been able to oblige!

Now I'm just waiting for a poet or dramatist who could do an announcement based on Robert Frost (hey, AS, whaddya think?), Shakespeare (maybe too MUCH tragedy there though!) or maybe some opera (and some of the FA uniforms almost look like they are in costume already!) I'm starting to think there are a lot of frustrated performers under those regulation outfits!