My Rome flight

[AirHostess]

Katie I'm curious...do you need any kind of special qualifications to be an Air Hostess? I'm wondering how one gets into the business, becasue i have to say it sounds like a killer interesting job.

It depends really. I think USA airlines require a high school diploma at least. In the UK they normally ask for at least 5 GSCE's and customer service experience though many crew have higher levels of education. If you take a look on the career sections on websites of airlines you are interested in all the info you need will be on there It's a fun job! if you have any questions PM me

[moekosowl]

Good for you for speaking up, South Texan

[deafcat24]

My parents probably heard a lot of complaints last week when they went to Mexico.

Their plane left Toronto an hour late.

Their plane left Puerto Vallarta THREE hours late. The only flight of the day heading from there back to Toronto. The airline said weather problems this time, but employees at Pearson said there was no reason weatherwise.

My small complaint is getting pulled out of bed at 2:30 in the morning because my sister locked the door and forgot to give me my keys back, so even at that hour I couldn't help them.

[HYHYBT]

Old El Al (Israreli Airline) joke.

Hello, this is the captian speaking. We have landed and are approaching our final docking point. Please stay in your seats with your seatbelts fasted and don't turn on your cell phones until the plane has fully stopped in is docked...

For those standing in the aisles with their cell phones, Happy Chunauka. For those sitting in their seats, Merry Christmas.

I hate to ask for a joke to be explained, but I just don't get this one at all. Please?

[skeptic53]

Hanukkah, sometimes spelled Chanukah, is the Jewish Festival of Lights that occurs late in December, usually overlapping with Christmas. The joke is that the Jews on the El Al flight ignored the captain's request to remain seated and stay off cell phones, while the gentiles obeyed the request. Not particularly funny, IMHO, but it reminded me of the wacky flight from London to JFK about which I posted above.

[HYHYBT]

Ah. I understood all that, just not why they'd be divided that way or what was supposed to be funny.

[Rapscallion]

Ooops - I'm flying with them today...

All together now, "I'm heaving on a jet plane..."

Rap "holiday frenzy" scallion

[Mr. Rude]

Nervous passenger: Dude!! If one of these engines cuts out, how far will the other one take us???

Me: All the way to the scene of the crash, which is pretty convenient. Considering that's where we're heading.....I bet we beat the paramedics there by 30 minutes

j/k

[SCSlave]

I've only flown a handful of times...once to Chicago *a whopping 45 minute flight* and twice to Las Vegas and back. Never really had any problems. Although, the first flight back from Vegas, we were stuck on the runway in 119 degree heat for 2 hours. That kind of sucked...but I'm pretty patient, I figure we'll get there eventually. Plus, our flight attendant was hilarious. She put on goofy glasses and weird fake teeth and kept us all entertained. She was great.

We're going to Vegas again in April. Wooooo!!

*makes mental note, do not have a connecting flight to/from Vegas with America West*

[Horsetuna]

I've flown about three times commercial.

Somewhere I have a picture of me in my car seat, wearing ear protectors, and another of me when I was six with my dad in the back of a Hercules playing with a pony.

The first commercial flight I dont remember, only that everyone sang Happy Birthday to mje( even though it wasnt' my birthday) and I got a Snap toy (The Snap Crackle Pop from rice crispies).

Second time was to visit my then-BF in Toronto. Six hour flight, nervous as hell. I thought 1 Am Friday was actually 1am AFTER 12 am on friday night... so I waited till saturday morning. doh.

Third time went more smoothly. First international flight. Due to this place and others and hearing countless horror stories about lost luggage, stolen luggage, strip searches, everything but your pants taken away, I was trulyu a wreck.

I didnt even have my luggage searched though.

[iradney]

I've flown about 30+ times. Majority of the flights were local flights, in 30 - 60 seater planes. I can do the safety lecture
Only been on 2 overseas trips and WOW, it's impossible to sleep in an economy seat! Never had a delayed flight, have had turbulence. As long as the plane stays up and I don't have to use the airplane loo, I'm a happy puppy

[trunks2k]

Planes leave on time? I have GOT to quit flying out of Newark...

The only thing I like about Newark is that the train from Philly stops there, and they have a flight directly to Bristol, UK (that's where my sister lives). Made my life easy when I went to Europe last year.

[trunks2k]

About 9% were Hassidim (Ultraorthodox, those guys in the black hats, black coats, beards and sidelocks).

Or as my one friend calls them, "Amish". When we went to Ireland a few years ago there was a flight to Israel leaving around the same time as ours, so there was a bunch of Hassidic Jews in the terminal. She kept going on about how she couldn't believe how many Amish people there were, and that she didn't think Amish people used airplanes. At first I thought she was just joking, but she kept talking about it and then I had to spend 15 minutes explaining to her that they were certainly not amish. She gets mad at me now because any time I see a Hassidic Jew or something I go "wow, look at the amish person!"

[tendomentis]

I've flown a fair bit both domestic and intl, but I would have to say the worst was the Algierian owned airline that I took out of Algiers about 15 years ago. If I say things like

-lawn chairs
-cup-and-string communications
-picnic lunch
-standing up in the back of a 40-year-old Ford truck doing 70 down a highway full of holes

you get a fairly accurate mental image of the flight.

[trunks2k]

I've flown a fair bit both domestic and intl, but I would have to say the worst was the Algierian owned airline that I took out of Algiers about 15 years ago. If I say things like

-lawn chairs
-cup-and-string communications
-picnic lunch
-standing up in the back of a 40-year-old Ford truck doing 70 down a highway full of holes

you get a fairly accurate mental image of the flight.

Algeria owns Ryan Air?