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Back in June 2008 my husband and I plus our 5 month old baby were waiting in DC IAD to head back to Boston. We purposely booked 4:30pm (little expensive being a Sunday) so that we would have plenty of time to rest and prepare for the next day. Everything from security check point to the [...]
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On Christmas Day 2005, my family received the grim news that my grandfather had passed away from Alzheimer’s. While we knew this was going to happen within that 2 week period, obviously we were not expecting it to happen on Christmas Day. We had to book a ticket to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which anyone from [...]
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A few years ago I was travelling on Malaysian Airlines from KL to Australia. The flight was full as there had been a major sporting event on in KL that finished earlier that day. I was seated in the last row by the window. Dinner service started and a few rows ahead I could hear [...]
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Not a story, but an observation about flight crews: There seems to be two distinct categories of FAs: those that respect personal space and those who do not. We have just returned from Mexico, and our carrier’s flight crew falls into the latter category. I was whacked by a FA moving in the aisle at [...]
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I was flying on American Airlines from SFO to Rio de Janeiro (changing planes in Miami) last July. When I checked in for my flight at SFO, I was told that the flight to Miami might be slightly delayed. I wasn’t worried at first, as I had a 2 hour layover in Miami. Unfortunately, what [...]
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A couple of months ago I was late for a flight from JFK to SJU. I fly almost every month to SJU and I’ve become very familiar with the airport. After I got off the AirTran plane, I started running towards the walkway to the JetBlue terminal. They have moving walkways to go quickly from [...]
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I was on a flight from London Heathrow to JFK in cattle class seats with the surliest bunch of flight attendants it has been my dspleasure to experience. I travel frequently in many parts of the globe, know what a difficult job they can have, and do my best to be a good passenger for [...]
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I make my home in SE Alaska, so our only carrier is Alaska Airlines. On a southbound trip out of Sitka, I was seated in a window seat on the left side, just behind the wing. As I settled into my seat for the short flight, I noticed an anomaly on the left wing. You’ve [...]
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I am in a rock band that is somewhat famous yet not famous enough to own its own private jet. So needless to say my band mates and I fly a lot. On one of our flights I walk down the aisle and was horrified to see the huge man sitting there in my seat (aisle [...]
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All - this is not a story, but a question to all of you kind souls… This has to do with size. I am 6’1″ and 280lbs. However, I fit in the seat and I prefer the arm rests down. I never need a seat belt extender, but my shoulders are 2 -3″ wider than the seat [...]
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I was on a flight from Caracas, Venezuela to Barcelona, Venezuela. It was a “dark and stormy night,” as they say, so we were bouncing around with lightning flashes punctuating the cabin with white flashes. We hit something, maybe a wind shear, or something like it. The plane plummeted sharply. We lost cabin pressure and [...]
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My fiancee (now wife) and I were just about to land in Amsterdam (red-eye from Detroit, Airbus A330, seats A & B, ultimately going to Scotland for her sister’s wedding) when the passenger in seat C started shaking. A friend of theirs from another row came to their side after the actual landing, but a [...]
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