Evil airline stories

[Whine Lover]

ATA last year:

- Guy dies in his seat.

- Upon arrival they wheel him out to the jetway.

- Relatives he is traveling with stand there weeping.

- Wheelchair is needed elsewhere, so they lay him out in the jetway.

All in full view of 160+ deplaning passengers.

Class Act. Top that one....

YKW

 

[samballs]

ATA last year:

- Guy dies in his seat.

- Upon arrival they wheel him out to the jetway.

- Relatives he is traveling with stand there weeping.

- Wheelchair is needed elsewhere, so they lay him out in the jetway.

All in full view of 160+ deplaning passengers.

Class Act. Top that one....

YKW

Skyway, on the 1900. Passengers come up to tell the crew they think a passenger has died (their over ORD) the crew decides to continue to STL or SDF? they never informed ATC or company, they landed and decided to look for themselves.

 

[Amish RakeFight]

Comedy and Tragedy; All in One

Sam and Whine,

Those stories are so equally horrible. As terrible as these incidents are, I can't help but chuckle at the absurdity of it. So, in all honesty, your two stories made me laugh quite a bit. Chalk it up to a sick sense of humor. :blush:

 

[Amish RakeFight]

Duplicate.

Duplicate.

 

[NEDude]

These stories happen because aviation is one of the few industries where anyone middle management on up not only never has to deal with their customers, they rarely even have to interact with their subordinates. In other words management NEVER has to deal with the fallout of the decisions made in an office building thousands of miles away from where their company actually does business.

We, as front line employees are left to deal with these decisions, and are often left powerless to deal with them and have no access to those who may be able to rectify the problems.

I am a career changer so I have seen how things work in the real world. And perhaps I am a bit old school. But I come from the school where if you are a manager/supervisor, when the @&^# hits the fan, no matter the time or day, you roll your sleeves up and get to work. In the airline industry, when the fan gets brown, managers run home and shut their phones off.

 

[CA1900]

In the airline industry, when the fan gets brown, managers run home and shut their phones off.

You mean like announcing a massive furlough and base closure on a Friday afternoon, right after all the management has left the building for the weekend?

 

[Midnight Flyer]

ATA last year:

- Guy dies in his seat.

- Upon arrival they wheel him out to the jetway.

- Relatives he is traveling with stand there weeping.

- Wheelchair is needed elsewhere, so they lay him out in the jetway.

All in full view of 160+ deplaning passengers.

Class Act. Top that one....

YKW

Whine,
Did you witness this?
I find that hard to believe..especially the part where the agent needed his wheelchair, so somebody pulled the body out and laid him on the jetway floor?!?
Anytime someone dies, it becomes a controlled crime scene and I'm sure the police would have told whoever needed that wheelchair to buzz off!
Besides, if a relative of mine dies, I'm insisting that we remain on board the a/c until all pax have deplaned, so the deceased can be transported off the airplane with dignity and in private.

(not calling you a liar or anything, & not looking to start an argument, just hard to conceive!!)

 

[chjack]

A big reason I left 121 and will never never return even if it means I have to find employment outside of aviation....

Pathetic

never say never. everybody has their price.

 

[McNugget]

The guppies continue to kill themselves.

 

[Propsync]

I truly think that if, 12 years ago, you had gotten government, management and unions together and told them that their job was to screw things up beyond recognition, that they really could not have done a better job than they have.

I disagree. I think they could have done it twice as fast.