Stupid things you've heard other passengers/travellers say...
Jun 26, 2008, 11:05 am
#31
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To be fair to this guy, I used to get my boarding pass at the gate all the time...back in the ancient days of air travel when you could clear security without a ticket and just turn up at the gate.
And I ran into one of those. "I don't want to wait in line to get a boarding pass down there. Can't I just get it at the gate?"
Jun 26, 2008, 11:05 am
#32
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Not sure that ignorance and stupidity are the same thing, and I'm not calling anyone stupid.
BUT, I was amused last month when, while seated in an exit aisle on a 319, the fellow in the middle stretched his legs way out and then turned and said to me in a really serious tone "This seat sure has a lot of leg room. I'm not used to this".
BUT, I was amused last month when, while seated in an exit aisle on a 319, the fellow in the middle stretched his legs way out and then turned and said to me in a really serious tone "This seat sure has a lot of leg room. I'm not used to this".
Jun 26, 2008, 12:35 pm
#34
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Overheard in the row behind me a while back
Flight out of DFW.... "So I got this inheritance and called a stock broker. He said you can't go wrong with Texas companies and that airline stocks look good, so why not an airline based in Texas. I put it all in Braniff, and they went bankrupt the next week."
Jun 26, 2008, 1:08 pm
#35
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Perhaps she only took the bus up until then.
Jun 26, 2008, 2:54 pm
#37
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It's not airline related, but while on the boat going to the Arizona Memorial with the swells hitting the sides of the boat, the person sitting in front of me said "You can't swim in this water because it's too thick."
Jun 26, 2008, 3:05 pm
#38
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some airlines (like Swiss) are so smart that the flight/entertainment system computer downloads passenger connection information close to landing, and displays all the relevant gate info on the tv screens for everyone to see. But I suppose that's 20 years in the future for US airlines...
Here is mine:
Overheard boarding a US Flight in CLT: "I'm flying first class on US Airways!"
Jun 26, 2008, 3:10 pm
#39
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Overheard by my mother, in HNL: "We have to tell people about this place when we get back to the States."
One of the dumber people I've ever met, on a flight where thunderstorms were visible: "Why is it only lightning on one side of the plane?"
One of the dumber people I've ever met, on a flight where thunderstorms were visible: "Why is it only lightning on one side of the plane?"
Jun 26, 2008, 6:50 pm
#42
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I was in C at in a long haul flight. A guy comes from Y and asks the FA: I'm tall and the seats back there are too tight for me. Could I just sit here, there's an empty seat".
FA: "Good that you know it's tight. Next time you buy a C ticket, which can cost 10 times more than what you are paying now".
FA: "Good that you know it's tight. Next time you buy a C ticket, which can cost 10 times more than what you are paying now".
Jun 26, 2008, 10:35 pm
#43
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I did have a work colleague who said she enjoyed flying TG because she could tell that when they hit turbulence/chop they'd make course changes to make it a smoother flight. Something she hadn't seen on other carriers!
Jun 27, 2008, 1:55 am
#44
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Was on a flight from DFW-ANC yesterday and as we were in the last hour or so of the flight the view over the mountains of Alaska was pretty amazing...on the starboard side of the aircraft. Alas my wife and I were on the port side. We could see the passengers all looking out of the window on that side. The guy seated in front of me was leaned round and I joked, 'We got a better view of Oklahoma City than they did though'. He mumbled something about the Grand Canyon and I said I'd seen it a few times when flying cross country to Los Angeles. He said, 'Oh no, I saw it on this flight just when we left Dallas' 