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The way you treat people really does matter. One super simple shortcut I recommend is to simply brandish a weapon at the gate. Any weapon.
Life has taught me that anything can be a weapon. Would it be enough to show them my ticket?
With those biceps!? Probably!
All joking aside, as someone who was once boarded 5 hours late onto a “backup plane”, you really don’t want any of this. They are not nice, and riding in one feels like flying inside a pile of spare parts. Because it probably is.
Tell us you haven’t flown Ryanair without using those words. :-p
I’m glad you at least got out on something.
Actually it was American Airlines. Plus, I contracted covid (despite masking up) for all my trouble. That said, I appreciate that this is a quasi-universal experience. Misery loves company and all that. 0/10 experience, will fly something/somewhere else next time.
My first ever time flying was a trip to Mexico from Knoxville, TN. On the return trip, we got a layover in Detroit, and our flight was grounded due to a mechanical problem. They offered to let us stay overnight in a hotel plus a 200 voucher, or we could take a different flight into Knoxville, with no voucher. My brother was super sick and just wanted to get home, we we took the flight.
This plane was tiny. Like, 30-50 seats? Fucking miniscule. It had ashtrays built into the armrests, and if you needed to use the bathroom you’d have to ask the flight attendant to move, because her jump seat was attached to the bathroom door. It rattled like a smokers chest cough, and I swear I thought it was going to give up the ghost and just drop out of the sky.
But the seats were very comfortable, and I was at the back in a single seat without a neighboring seat, so I got to chat with the flight attendant the whole time haha
Fargo ND. airport run by maybe 20 people. Last flight out of the day, and the aircraft gets grounded due to a fault, and they have to bus/van the repair techs from Minneapolis. First guy to the desk is from Egypt trying to line up 4 other layovers across 3 continents. Everyone else was domestic, and quite annoyed by the time the second person was assisted at the counter.
Most people decided to rent cars and drive overnight. I was on business so I overnighted and caught the morning flight out, with a sprint across DFW to connect home.
Those are the Boeing safety certified ones yeah?
Can confirm. Also, all shops have a secret area called “the back” where they keep all the good stuff, including the thing we told you we didn’t have over the phone. You just have to physically come to the store anyway and verbally abuse the staff enough and they’ll go fetch it for you.
