And how was your last flight?

17 Comments on And how was your last flight?

1. (The flight crew) “apologizing for the inconvenience and the delays, though noting that they had no control over it.”
   Bullshit. It is against FAA regulations to allow an intoxicated passenger to board an aircraft. But airlines break this rule all the time. I sat opposite a drunk who was obviously drunk before he boarded, and once airborne, the flight attendants continued to sell the asshole more drinks. I complained to the flight attendants after the flight, who responded with a shrug. I complained to the airline, which didn’t respond. The woman who was puked on should sue the airline.

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2. If I absolutely have no other choice but to fly I don’t want to know about it until minutes before takeoff. Just thinking about being onboard one of those flying cattle cars makes me physically ill.

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3. Did you see that woman’s face?
   He thought she was an Air Sickness Bag.

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4. If a drunk pukes on you while on board an airplane, isn’t it standard procedure to throw the bastard out the window?

   If not, it should be.

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5. Being drunk anywhere else is considered public intoxication. Why are airline passengers exempt? Another reason I tend to stay away from large crowds of people.

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6. I stopped flying when the nazi-TSA-brow-shirts were rolled out and I have not regretted it yet.

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7. My daughter threw up on a plane as a toddler, just as we came into land. Somehow, inexplicably, essentially all the vomit went down the tiny gap between my ankle and the edge of my shoe.

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8. Isn’t Spirit a discount airline?

   Glass half full.
   At least she didn’t pay top dollar on Delta, American or United where she could get the same treatment (and maybe a brawl or two).

   I miss the good old days of air travel, when the only thing you had to worry about was sitting beside a crying baby.

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9. Why do we have to have alcoholic drinks served on aircraft?

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10. Because America.

    Just because some people are irresponsible doesn’t mean you punish everyone.

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11. It happened to a coworker. The offender was another coworker who was out drinking all night, and apparently at the hotel, up to their departure on a return flight from Europe.

    Had it been me, I would have given the offender’s manager an earful.

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12. Not funny. I was on a flight two weeks before 911 happened.
    The plane had a disproportionate volume of Arabic males on it. One of them barfed half way through the flight and flicked it off his hands as he walked to the bathroom. For the remainder of the flight other passengers were gagging from the stench.

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13. I just lost my desire for breakfast…
    thanks.

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14. This is why I generally would sleep in the top rack in my compartment on board the USS Kitty Hawk CV 63. The poor guy who slept in the middle or bottom rack always stood the chance of being puked on by the guy in the top rack after he had been drinking heavily when were in port. And it was why I always kept my curtain closed as well. Drunken sailors are idiots. The top rack in my compartment was also the noisiest since my compartment was directly under the arresting gear cables on the flight deck.

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15. @geoff, Yeah, I was a top bunk guy too, same boat different year, it was a CVA back then.
    Mine was one deck under the catapults.
    The problem with top rack is you can slip and fall in the puke when you dismount.
    I don’t fly commercial anymore, if I can’t drive/ride there, I aint goin’.
    Arresting cables: Thump, whirr, bang bang bang, wump.
    Catapult: Jet full throttle, afterburner, whoosh, hull shaking bang.
    You learned to sleep during flight opps or you didn’t sleep.

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16. I could sleep thru anything except for boson’s whistles making announcements over the PA system and General Quarters drills and the real thing where I could run across the passageways inside the ship to the line shack at the front of the ship in under 2 minutes and get dressed while I was running. It’s amazing what you can do when you get used to all the noise and hustle and bustle on the flight deck from below the arresting gear cables. The first time I had a jet literally land over the top of me I about crapped my pants, it was so damned loud. I worked night check for the most part from 6PM to 6 AM in the morning so I slept during the day. But during periods when we were flying balls to the walls during full flight ops I often worked 16-18 hr. days and sometimes more, taking a nap on the floor of the line shack in between the launching and recovery of our aircraft. There is a good reason that 19-21 year old’s do this because older guys couldn’t handle all the stress of flying pretty much non stop. And one of the reasons that I’m partially deaf because of all the noise, even 44-45 yrs. later.

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17. That flight was full of drunks, apparently. 2 incidents on the same flight.

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