Just another reason why commercial airlines suck

[Bann]

My husband's company offered to send me to South Korea when he had a recent medical emergency. My first reaction was that my face would be plastered all over the internet for kicking the $hit out of some ignorant mother on one of the flights for letting her fu@k trophy kick my seat or climb on me. Or some loud, rude self entitled and self important idiot that won't shut up. I have flown many times commercially and the last several times were not pleasant but not as bad as it looks like traveling has become!
My husband is a globe trotter and has seen the world. Me- not so much. The thought of all those hours in travel and finding my way around stressed me out. Besides his other medical issue, he was in a Covid quarantine so I probably wouldn't have been able to see him anyways! Though it was nice of his company to offer, he told me not to go there and as it turns out, he was released from the hospital much sooner than expected.

Good to hear he was out sooner than expected. Hope he is doing much better!

 

[vraiblonde]

for kicking the $hit out of some ignorant mother

I thought you were going to follow that up with another word....

Glad to hear D is doing well. *hug*

 

[Sneakers]

Glad to hear D is doing well. *hug*

^that. Please tell him we're thinking of him.

My first flight ever was to the British Virgin Islands in '73. My college was offering a Coral Reef Photography course for 4 credits, 2 weeks. A bunch of us signed up. Most of us had never flown, didn't know anything about weight restrictions or anything else, showed up at JFK airport in NY with 2 scuba tanks each, all of our diving gear, photo gear and personal stuff. My footprint alone was about 5 square feet and must have weighed a couple hundred pounds. Times 10 for the others. But somehow it all got loaded and we made the flight. That would never happen today.

Uneventful trip to St. Thomas where we had to catch small 2-prop planes to Tortola. Landed on Beef Island Airport. It's one of those airports where the landing strip is bordered with water on both sides, and very very short. A little un-nerving landing.

2 weeks of .... um.... serious education and learning ...cough cough... Really don't remember much of the trip home, and not sure how it happened.

 

[Grumpy]

. Really don't remember much of the trip home, and not sure how it happened.

Overdid the ganja, eh?

 

[Sneakers]

Overdid the ganja, eh?

I think it was the Don Q.

 

[Kyle]

Overdid the ganja, eh?

Tommy Chong was filling scuba tanks.

 

[RoseRed]

This was a fun flight that I have taken. San Blas Island, Panama.

 

[Sneakers]

This was a fun flight that I have taken. San Blas Island, Panama.

Pretty much what landing on Beef Island was like.

 

[RoseRed]

Pretty much what landing on Beef Island was like.

Pilot wasn't able to get stopped in time, so we had to take off and go around again.

 

[TPD]

Our return flight to DC was not delayed or cancelled- yippee! In the air now - should be landing in about 30mins.

 

[Sneakers]

Tommy Chong was filling scuba tanks.

I wish I had taken a picture of the compressor facility. Basically an open-air shack with an ancient huge compressor that couldn't fill a 3000psi bottle. A wonder it hadn't blown up.

 

[Gilligan]

Pilot wasn't able to get stopped in time, so we had to take off and go around again.

One of the airports I use in Norway..Sandane...is like that. Itty bitty runway perched on the top of a mountain. Takes a few tries to get the landing to stick sometimes..especially when they are coming straight down through dense cloud cover.

 

[phreddyp]

I wish I had taken a picture of the compressor facility. Basically an open-air shack with an ancient huge compressor that couldn't fill a 3000psi bottle. A wonder it hadn't blown up.

Sounds like Bermuda in the 90s.

 

[RoseRed]

Passengers aboard Las Vegas flight pass out while awaiting takeoff in triple-digit temperatures

Passengers aboard an Atlanta-bound flight at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas fell ill as they awaited takeoff in triple-digit temperatures.

www.foxbusiness.com

 

[TPD]

Passengers aboard Las Vegas flight pass out while awaiting takeoff in triple-digit temperatures

Passengers aboard an Atlanta-bound flight at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas fell ill as they awaited takeoff in triple-digit temperatures.

www.foxbusiness.com

So what do you do in a case like this when it is a life or pass out situation? Do you risk being banned from air travel by storming the cockpit or deploying the emergency chutes? Do you just sit there helplessly and watch people around you get sick? Guess you are at the mercy of the pilots and flight attendants.

 

[Merlin99]

So what do you do in a case like this when it is a life or pass out situation? Do you risk being banned from air travel by storming the cockpit or deploying the emergency chutes? Do you just sit there helplessly and watch people around you get sick? Guess you are at the mercy of the pilots and flight attendants.

Call 911 and report the kidnapping.

 

[Kyle]