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Southwest disciplines pilot for rant during flight
CNN ^ | June 22, 2011 | CNN Wire Staff

Posted on 06/22/2011 4:12:05 PM PDT by Immerito

(CNN) -- Southwest Airlines disciplined a pilot whose profanity-laced rant about flight attendants was heard by other airplane crews and controllers, officials said Wednesday.

The unidentified pilot bashed flight attendants as a "continuous stream of gays and grannies and grandes," according to a transcript of the March 25 flight over central Texas. The pilot on the Austin to San Diego flight was referring to the sexual orientation, age and attractiveness of flight attendants.

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1 posted on 06/22/2011 4:12:08 PM PDT by Immerito
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To: Immerito

Flight attendants are, on average, not what they used to be in the 60s and 70s.


2 posted on 06/22/2011 4:16:35 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Immerito

Other than to get some reporter’s (in this case Steven Dean’s) name up in lights I would greatly appreciate someone explaining to me just why this is a newsworthy event.


3 posted on 06/22/2011 4:17:22 PM PDT by Bigun ("The most fearsome words in the English language are I'm from the government and I'm here to help!")
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To: Immerito

I did not realize Southwest had attendants. what is a Grande?


4 posted on 06/22/2011 4:17:47 PM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: Immerito

He underwent “diversity education”.

I’m sure that was more effective than telling him to cut it the F out or his A is fired. /s


5 posted on 06/22/2011 4:17:57 PM PDT by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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To: Immerito
Hey, it's Southwest Airlines.

Who does he thinks he flies for? Pacific Southwest Airlines circa 1975?

6 posted on 06/22/2011 4:18:48 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: Paladin2
>>Flight attendants are, on average, not what they used to be in the 60s and 70s.<<

I'll say!


7 posted on 06/22/2011 4:18:58 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Paladin2
Ohhh yeah. :)


8 posted on 06/22/2011 4:19:36 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: Immerito

“continuous stream of gays and grannies and grandes,”

That about sums it up.


9 posted on 06/22/2011 4:20:10 PM PDT by Patrick1 ("The problem with Internet quotations is that many are not genuine." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Paladin2
Was thinking exactly the same thing. The days of assuming the flight attendants are going to be hot are overrrrrrrrr.
10 posted on 06/22/2011 4:20:18 PM PDT by ryan71 (Dear spell check - No, I will not capitalize the "m" in moslem!)
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To: pogo101

And yeah, I know it’s sexist ... but the issue was attractiveness per se. :)


11 posted on 06/22/2011 4:20:18 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: UB355

what is a Grande?

I think they sell them at Starbucks.


12 posted on 06/22/2011 4:21:09 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (I am still looking for that box I am supposed to think out of.)
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To: Paladin2

Braniff Airlines, 1974

13 posted on 06/22/2011 4:22:03 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: Immerito

Reminds me of a joke ;7)))

What separates the drunks from the whores?

The cockpit door.


14 posted on 06/22/2011 4:22:03 PM PDT by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: UB355

A Big ‘un!


15 posted on 06/22/2011 4:22:05 PM PDT by old school
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To: UB355

A Big ‘un!


16 posted on 06/22/2011 4:22:17 PM PDT by old school
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To: Paladin2
Flight attendants are, on average, not what they used to be in the 60s and 70s.

On some lines, I think it's the same girls today that were flying in the 60s and 70s LOL.

Remember also the biz opportunities were far fewer for good looking women back then. Now a lot are pharma reps.

17 posted on 06/22/2011 4:22:17 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: UB355

“what is a Grande?”

Spanish for ‘HUGE’


18 posted on 06/22/2011 4:22:36 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FreeRepublic.com. Now, More Than Ever.)
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To: Paladin2

“Flight attendants are, on average, not what they used to be in the 60s and 70s.”

Its the same flight attendants from that era...with a bit of a patina.


19 posted on 06/22/2011 4:23:17 PM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: The KG9 Kid
The stewardesses (as they were then called) today:


20 posted on 06/22/2011 4:23:54 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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