What an airplane! I'm heading to Maui on Saturday and I can't wait - I've flown about a million miles, and the thrill of flight has never left me...
Posted on 09/05/2012 5:36:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I've been treated poorly on occasion, but it was always from other females (and they looked pretty stressed out to me). At no time was I even interacting with them; they took time out of their busy flight attendant schedule to go out of their way to harass me. I defused their ferocity, it's one of my specialties, but I'll never understand why some women treat other women so poorly and then turn around and fawn over some man.
Unless they’ve changed since I flew on them, Korean Air Lines (KAL) is exceptional. I merely had to think or wish for something and **poof** there it was, as if by magic, brought by a stewardess who could be a runway model easily.
Now Flying Tiger, on the other hand...
Flying since 1957 trip home from Basic Training, Augusta, GA to Harrisburg, PA. A few months later, to Seattle on a DC-7C to ship out to Japan. Never been dissed by an attendant. In May I flew back to PA on SWA from fishing in Ft. Myers, FL. The pretty and very sweet black attendant offered me pretzels as my snack.
When I grasped her upper arm (I’m 73 years old) she stooped over to hear what I wanted to say...which was to ask if she had something else because I HATE pretzels. She took off up the aisle and returned with 10 packets of the best little cookies one could ask for. I told her, “Thanks so much, You’re a doll.”
About 10 minutes later, after her crew finished serving everyone, she came back again with another handful! ;oD
My first flight was on a DC-8 from Denver to New York’s Idlewild Airport, with a stopover in Chicago, in late August, 1961. When we boarded, the stewardesses passed out packs of cigarettes to the passengers—it was a different world then.
My second flight was from McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey to Frankfurt, Germany, aboard a US Overseas Airlines DC-6 on the last day of August, 1961. It was a 19-hour flight that included a stopover in Gander, Newfoundland.
My fatherIL, flew freight for Flying Tigers.
No sure if that’s what you meant, ‘-)
Flew on a World Airways Super Connie from Japan in 1958.
So noisy you couldn’t hear yourself speak. The crockery on one’s food tray `walked’ around like a fan. I was a nine year old kid & having a ball until I looked out the window & the #3 engine was feathered, help! I could read the oval decal on the propeller blades. Landed safely, of course. The brochure even said the aircraft could fly level on any two of its four engines.
One beautiful airplane.
Anyway, Glenn is going to get his pound of flesh. As was said in earlier times, never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.
” In fact one of them in the late 70’s invited me to go home with her.”
Bwaaaa! My family was flying back from Hawaii, Christmas Day, 1972. 5 people on the plane. My family of four, and Ed Asner. He walked back from first class looking for someone to fawn over him. My Dad didn’t even acknowledge his existence! Yeah Dad! Miss you and love you! I headed back to where the stewardesses were swilling champagne. Got that invite! Missed my connection from Chicago to Milwaukee. And,,,, it was “double trouble!” Great trip! Wonderful Christmas present!
And, now some airlines are planning on making the seats even smaller and fit more in a flight. Argh!
And don't forget male figure skaters. ;-)
“So he was treated rudely by flight attendants, just like the rest of us.”
I have never been treated that poorly, and I fly regularly.
What the flight attendant’s superior needs to splain to him is that its not his perogative to treat anyone rudely as they are all paying passengers and he is an employee paid to serve the passengers. Of course they wont’t do that.
What an airplane! I'm heading to Maui on Saturday and I can't wait - I've flown about a million miles, and the thrill of flight has never left me...
That’s great, however it is not the experience of most people.
Noisy, and shaky, too.
But......America was a Great Country back then, compared to today.
What are we going to be sitting on boxes?
Really smaller - ah!
I believe it is AW'd.
I also see others on the flight treated well, I am surprised that you’d think Beck’s treatment was the norm. Note that the flight attendant treated everyone else nicely, according to Beck.
I once had a stewardess, who was fawning over the men on the plane, turn away from the man she was serving, and open his soda in my face, spraying it all over me. I simply asked her for a napkin. It wasn’t American, though. I seldom fly them.
If it were not for the fact that AA is the preferred air carrier for the federal government, who pays twice for an airline seat what it's worth, they would be finished.
High prices, mediocre service, nothing special regards amenities, small seats and little leg room, old airframes that are loud... But what the heck, if they eventually go under maybe the fed can come in and save them because they are also “to big to fail.”
Interesting.
Have you read the number of people on this thread who agree treatment is not what it should be?
Again, I am glad you are treated well, it still is not the norm.
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