Airline show---Dumba@# non-revs

[gordon24]

Anybody catch the episode of "Airline" where the 3 flight attendent wannabes get all miffed about being booted off a flight? Having non-rev benefits, my wife and I both cringed! I PVR'd the episode and must have rewound that part a dozen times. I could not believe the nerve of the one chick gettting all pissy with the gate agent. Jeez...wonder if those morons got hired?

 

[MBB]

what channel and when is this on?

 

[jetblue320]

what channel and when is this on?

It's on A&E I think and it is on a few nights a week, sometimes back to back episodes. It's just called "Airline". A lot of times they are repeats and I don't know what night the new ones are on.

Check it out, it's usually good for a few laughs.


C yaaa

 

[MBB]

thanks

 

[Flic1]

If you've watched one episode, you've seen all of them. Same scenarios every episode:

Flight is overbooked, family gets pi**ed, yells, cries and says that the airline isn't allowed overbook and threatens they will sue......

Fat person is told they need to buy 2 tickets, they get upset, yell, cry, and threaten to sue for discrimination.....

Drunk person isn't allowed on the flight, gets pi**ed, yells, cries, threatens to sue.....

They lose someones luggage, they get pi**ed, cry, yell and threatens to sue over a cheap suitcase and wardrobe from Wal-Mart....


It would be nice if they could focus on some other aspects of the airline instead of the same stuff over and over. It is disturbing to see how many idiotic morons are out there....

 

[SWA/FO]

They were going to show more positive experiences in season 2. I have not watch any of the new ones, either. They do tend to have the same theme as mentioned above. But from what I hear, people love watching it, like 6 million people on average a night.

 

[LUVChild]

I'll venture a wild guess here, but considering how strict they are in Initial Flight Attendant training, I'd bet money that those three individuals were promptly released. All it would take was one call to Inflight Training from the CSA, one irregularlity report, and buh-bye!

There are two stories that I've heard told among the recruiters at Southwest. One is about a candidate who was just super nice to the recruiter on the phone. However, when a coordinator called this man back to schedule the actual face-to-face interview, the man become very rude and demeaning to the coordinator when he couldn't get the time slot he wanted. He made some comments along the lines of the coordinator being "just a secretary" and that he wanted to speak to the recruiter.

Guess who didn't get the job? In a company where the president was once a secretary herself, you don't jack with the administrative assistants.

The other story I'd heard was about a Flight Attendant candidate who had interviewed, and the recruiters loved her. However, she went to the restroom afterwards, and didn't realize that there was a recruiter in one of the stalls. She began saying that she was sure she had the interview in the bag, and then went on to say some not-so-nice things about the recruiters to another candidate who was in the bathroom. Once again, guess who didn't get the job?

Whenever people ask me about interviewing for Southwest, I tell them that from the moment you set foot on the property, until the moment you step off the property, you are being assessed. And for Flight Attendants, that interview process continues throughout the Initial Training. In that position, they don't hesitate to fire early for nasty attitudes.

 

[350DRIVER]

I saw about 30 seconds of one episode and that was enough to last a lifetime.

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ps>>> Anyone read the Flying Magazine this month with regards to Dick Karl(sp?) flying a new SWA plane out of Boeing Field in SEA?. Interesting they put a no jet time guy with very little experience in the right seat let alone him doing a good bit of the flying.

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[Dennis Miller]

Interesting they put a no jet time guy with very little experience in the right seat let alone him doing a good bit of the flying.

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Thats a normal workday at Mesa. The only way you can tell the Flight Attendant from the F/O is the color of their socks.

 

[350DRIVER]

Thats a normal workday at Mesa. The only way you can tell the Flight Attendant from the F/O is the color of their socks.

Thought the females had to wear those attractive 4" in heels and hose?!?

lol

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[capt. megadeth]

Flic1,
You are so right! I was all psyched to watch the show and then I realized I was watching a typical day at work

 

[FN FAL]

Flic1,
You are so right! I was all psyched to watch the show and then I realized I was watching a typical day at work

Do you think the cops sit at home and listen to a police scanner?

 

[flyguppy]

Anybody catch the episode of "Airline" where the 3 flight attendent wannabes get all miffed about being booted off a flight? Having non-rev benefits, my wife and I both cringed! I PVR'd the episode and must have rewound that part a dozen times. I could not believe the nerve of the one chick gettting all pissy with the gate agent. Jeez...wonder if those morons got hired?

Here's a question that this episode had me asking.

Are you telling me that SWA gives prospective employees SPACE AVAILABLE only tickets to go to the interview?

How are you supposed to plan for that? "I'm sorry I didn't make the interview, but I got bumped."

How about pilot interviews? Should one pack for 4 days in case they get stuck?

I've never had a pilot interview at an airline that I didn't have POSITIVE SPACE tickets. SA while on company business is crap, IMO.

 

[Maj]

"Flight is overbooked, family gets pi**ed, yells, cries and says that the airline isn't allowed overbook and threatens they will sue......

Fat person is told they need to buy 2 tickets, they get upset, yell, cry, and threaten to sue for discrimination.....

Drunk person isn't allowed on the flight, gets pi**ed, yells, cries, threatens to sue.....

They lose someones luggage, they get pi**ed, cry, yell and threatens to sue over a cheap suitcase and wardrobe from Wal-Mart...."

Now that's reality TV!

 

[saabcaptain]

SWA gave me positive space tickets to my interview.

 

[MJG]

If you've watched one episode, you've seen all of them. Same scenarios every episode:

Flight is overbooked, family gets pi**ed, yells, cries and says that the airline isn't allowed overbook and threatens they will sue......

Fat person is told they need to buy 2 tickets, they get upset, yell, cry, and threaten to sue for discrimination.....

Drunk person isn't allowed on the flight, gets pi**ed, yells, cries, threatens to sue.....

They lose someones luggage, they get pi**ed, cry, yell and threatens to sue over a cheap suitcase and wardrobe from Wal-Mart....

That's pretty much every episode in a nutshell, yawn....

 

[T1bubba]

Since they're apparently not interested in doing "behind the scenes" type stuff they're stuck with either human interest stories or conflict of some kind. Sure looks like they're not getting enough human interest stories.

A captain I flew with recently was waiting for a late jet in MDW. The Airline folks came up and asked him if he could get in an arguement with the arriving captain over being late so they would have something to film. He just laughed at them.

I think most of the people on the show wouldn't be so argumentative if they didn't think it increases their chances of being on TV. When you watch them film the lights and camera only come on when it looks like someones about to start yelling.

 

[RVR300]

THose two snotty chicks were returning from a FA interview, that's why they were on SA tickets. I thought it was pretty funny. Not only snooty, but obviously unbelievably stupid.

 

[TriStar_drvr]

A couple months ago I was sitting on a SWA jet waiting to depart Midway for home (Thanks SWA), when a passenger across the aisle from me got into a shouting match with a FA. I knew his time on the airplane was soon to end when he called the FA a F*#$ing B*#ch. After refusing the CSA manager's invitation to deplane, two Chicago cops were invited onboard to remove him. I was horrified to see the camera crew of "Airline" following the cops down the aisle. I quickly verified that my ID badge was not visible and pretended to be very interested with looking out the window. Luckily the aisle was too crowded for the camera crew, so they backed out. I don't know if he was filmed outside the plane or not or if his story made on of the episodes of "Airline."

By the way, this all started because the aft lav was closed because a passenger on the inbound flight had urinated in the sink. You got to love some of the people who are flying these days (and all the airlines get them, not just the LCCs).

 

[Metro752]

I read that some people don't ever use a toilet to pee, in fear something will reach out and rip their weiner off. When they poop, it causes them great anxiety, and dont ever let their cheeks touch the seat, they squat!