Just goes to show you. You can't be nice to some people. 

The dark side of dealing with the general public, fortunately most are great. From the sounds of it you gave her plenty of wiggle room and were extremely patient so good on you for that, I would have tossed her sooner

Oh, back to the days before de-regulation when men wore coats and ties and women wore dresses and hats!  The biggest challenge during the flight was getting up from your very comfortable 2 abreast seat, wandering aft to the horseshoe shaped lounge in the Mainliner DC-7 for a libation.  And the relative cost of the airfare was such that most travelers took the train, bus or walked.

 

Jim Driskell

9 hours ago, busdriver said:

I have her removed from the flight

Please tell me you received a Standing O.

5 hours ago, HighBypass said:

What? MEL'ing the front lavatory?  Sorry! 😄 

No; I'm referencing the FA demands. 

I hope that so-called lady was not married:  If so, I sure would pity the poor schnook...

3 hours ago, Les Parson said:

No; I'm referencing the FA demands. 

I'm thinking it was the passenger rather than the flight attendant that made that demand.

I really cannot see the problem....

Keep an empty bottle under your seat....

...BillC

15 hours ago, busdriver said:

 

Ok, so much for an on-time departure... I have her removed from the flight, and take a 45 minute delay. I wonder if I can MEL the front lavatory for my next leg!  😎

 

Good man, we’ll done.

Having been up all night doing long haul we have our breakfast about 1 hour before landing and usually have a couple of cups of tea to try and wake ourselves up a bit for the landing. This invariably leads to needing to pop out to use the washroom just before top of descent though. You could try and hang on but if you end up holding or diverting it won’t be good.

we have a couple of washrooms right outside the flight deck on the 747 with a little light on the flight deck wall that tells you if they are both in use. Some luckier airlines have a washroom actually inside the flight deck on their 747s.  

At around the top of descent point there’s always a line of passengers waiting to use the washrooms. In the past I’d politely “ask’ the person at the front of the line if they’d mind if I just pushed in quick, most people are fine with that, realising I’ve got slightly more important things to do as we approach landing than wait in line, but more and more frequently people are starting to get funny about it. 

I no longer ask, I just go straight to the front and then say thank you as I go in.

If it weren’t for lithium batteries I often think freight flying would be a better option.

16 hours ago, charliearon said:

Sorry about your experience, Bill!  Oh, the joys of being a "Sim Pilot"!  No idiots, other than the one sitting in my chair to deal with

At least you're stutter free in the real-world (hopefully). 🙂

Hi Folks,

Just a sign of the times I guess - we live in a world where narcissism has run rampant - we see it everywhere - - - I don't envy anyone that has to deal with real customers today...

Regards,
Scott

When theres no love at home, you bring your problems to the plane toilet.

Edited July 30, 20196 yr by dmarques69

As I often say at work, 'this would be a great job, if it wasn't for the passengers'.

Seriously, the amount of idiotic behaviour we see from passengers on a daily basis is staggering. Last night for example, we had a passenger who had placed not just one (which would be stupid enough), but FIVE passports (presumably their entire family's documents) in one of the flimsy side pockets of a baby's pushchair, which had been placed in the hold. Who the hell would do that with their precious travel ID?

This moron was now asking the dispatcher to contact us on the ramp (which she did) so that all of us down on the ramp who were busily servicing the aircraft, might search through the various pockets and other places of literally every pushchair which had come off the aircraft onto carts, trucks etc ready for their trip to the baggage carousels, or the probably thousands of other locations these passports might easily have fallen into, including the entire rear hold of an A321 and any adjacent bag nooks and crannies which those documents might easily have fallen into by accident, in an attempt to find this idiots entire family's passports. And believe me, sometimes there are a lot of pushchairs which come off those aeroplanes before you've even considered all the other places those documents might easily have ended up in.

Honestly, you would not believe some of the stuff people pop loosely onto the seat of a pushchair, expecting it to somehow remain secure after having been through the departure airport's entire set of conveyors, down into the bag hall, loaded onto a trailer, driven out to an aeroplane, sat out on a ramp for a while in a baggage trailer, driven up to the stand and alongside the aircraft, loaded onto a belt at the aircraft, shoved up into the hold of an aeroplane, jostled about in there for an entire flight, then going through the entire process of unloading and getting onto the carousels at the destination. We see laptops, tablets, wallets, all kinds of really valuable and fragile stuff placed in this precarious locale, and these idiots think those things are a, going to stay there despite not being secured in any way whatsoever, and b, remain in perfect condition throughout the entire process. Not to mention the unfortunate possibility that some light-fingered person might help themselves to these things since they are in no way secured (sadly this is not unknown, although fortunately not among anyone at my company).

And don't even get me started on the weight of some people's suitcases -seriously, how many clothes do you need in a bag when going somewhere warm for a holiday? - and the almost fanatically moronic trust they place in the ability of a cheap zipper to somehow withstand the pressure of a bag having had several times-worth of its normal capacity forced into it and clocking in on the scales at about five times the weight it could reasonably be expected to support. Not to mention the idiots who insist on taking pushbikes, golf clubs, surfboards, their kitchen sink, etc, onto a regular holiday passenger flight, as if you could not hire such things at your destination. The word stupid doesn't even begin to describe these people. And if you want truly bizarre - I am not making this up - I saw a wooden spoon with its own luggage tag the other day, in the hold of an A321. Yes really, a wooden spoon, and not even a decorative or souvenir one, just a regular wooden spoon you might find in your kitchen.

For those of you who incidentally, might be considering the bizarre notion of numbering some wooden kitchen utensils in your travel luggage, I should point out that the conveyor we used to unload that particular item, had just prior to that, been used to unload seventeen crates full of monkeys off a Fairchild Metroliner, and the amount of monkey p*ss running down that belt as we unloaded it is enough to convince me never to consider any such possibility. Now I can assure you that we dutifully hosed down that conveyor afterwards, and indeed ourselves too and threw away most of our clothing as well, but can you really be sure you've got it all? The smell was awful; I'm fairly certain the unfortunate crew of that Metroliner must have been on oxygen all the way.

And on the subject of the joys of being an airline pilot, I'm still trying to figure out why the crew of the A321 we pushed off stand 23 at Manchester this morning, decided that it was necessary to have their strobe lights going during that process. 🤣

Edited July 30, 20196 yr by Chock

9 minutes ago, Chock said:

Not to mention the idiots who insist on taking pushbikes, golf clubs, surfboards etc, onto a regular passenger flight, as if you could not hire such things at your destination. The word stupid doesn't even begin to describe these people.

I was with you 100% until this point, Alan.

All of those, and more, (skis for instance) vary massively not only by brand, but by model.
They can also be very expensive to hire, even for a few days. And that's dependent on if a rental shop has what you are looking for.

We, self-loading freight, usually have to pay (a lot) extra for the privilege of having these transported to our destination. It's worth it though, as I enjoy using my equipment that has been set up for me and is in the best working condition.


@busdriver shame that what seemed would be the perfect sector was ruined by such a weird non-issue. Hope the rest of the day was better, even though you had to play catch-up.
 

5 hours ago, Chock said:

As I often say at work, 'this would be a great job, if it wasn't for the passengers'.

As a retired bag smasher, I approve of this message.😄

Edited July 30, 20196 yr by n4gix
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