Attendant & Pilot Stories

FA Fails To Communicate

January 7, 2010 Attendant & Pilot Stories

There is a certain nationally known advocate for the deaf who frequently travels the country giving lectures on behalf of deaf awareness and bridging the gap between hearing people and the deaf community. On a recent trip she was sitting in her seat writing emails on her Blackberry waiting for departure. The flight attendants gave [...]

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Request For Assistance Leads To Insult

December 28, 2009 Attendant & Pilot Stories

I am certain that most of you have stories worse than mine, but I felt that those of you who have never flown with American Airlines in the southwestern United States should be warned. It was December 2003, airlines were hemorrhaging money, and you would expect that customer service would be a priority. Apparently, not. [...]

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The Popsicle Eating Pilot

December 24, 2009 Attendant & Pilot Stories

This flight wasn’t really hellish, just funny. When I was in college in Ohio in the ’80′s, I would fly home to Connecticut for Christmas via La Guardia to our local small airport. The now-defunct airline that I took from LGA to Connecticut was called Pilgrim Airlines, and they flew a fleet of small turboprops; [...]

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Champagne Flight

December 18, 2009 Attendant & Pilot Stories

We were on a “champagne flight” from Newark to Jamaica, where they offer everyone a glass of champagne, along with a nice meal. My husband was seated near the window, I was in the middle, and our son was on the aisle seat. The first thing we observed was, as one of the attendants opened [...]

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Orders To Disembark Fall On Deaf Ears

December 16, 2009 Attendant & Pilot Stories

My wife and I decided to take our kids, ages 1 and 4, to Las Vegas for a vacation. When trying to book the flights we could not get a direct flight back from Vegas to NY. Speaking with the Northwest reservation agent, she suggested we take a red eye flight that had a stop over [...]

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An Array Of FAs

December 14, 2009 Attendant & Pilot Stories

Let me just start off my saying I am a former flight attendant, but that in no way makes me responsible for other’s rudeness. Hubby and I went to Maui for our 10th anniversary and I used my miles to book us in first class. We flew from PHX to DFW, then on to Maui. [...]

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An Unpleasant Welcome Home

November 5, 2009 Attendant & Pilot Stories

I was returning from almost three years of tours in Iraq and Afghanistan on United Airlines from Frankfurt to Dulles and was feeling lucky to have been able to upgrade to business class. The flight was fairly pleasant until a few hours before we landed when a new, male flight attendant appeared. I was recovering [...]

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FA Asks Flier If He’s “Mentally Retarded”

October 30, 2009 Attendant & Pilot Stories

I recently flew on business from Northwest Arkansas (XNA) to Charlotte on US Airways. It was an early Monday morning so the flight was almost completely full. I boarded and sat in seat 1F next to the window and had a young woman sitting next to me in the aisle seat. Across the aisle in [...]

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Cell Phone Conflict

October 19, 2009 Attendant & Pilot Stories

I was flying US Air, going home to Seattle from Atlanta for Thanksgiving. First of all I’m already mad that I have to pay $15 to check my bag. Now I am playing video games on my Cell Phone which has the option to shut the phone and wireless off and just use the computer portion [...]

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Intimidating FA

October 14, 2009 Attendant & Pilot Stories

Boarding a flight from Austin to Denver, I mistakenly did something to irritate the flight attendant. It had something to do with my carry-on, which was of appropriate size and in nobodies way, but I can’t remember what. Whatever I did wrong, it pissed her off horribly. She stopped process and yelled at me until [...]

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