Where are the best and worst crew rooms or pilot lounges you guys have ever been in/seen? - Dosen't matter if its 121, 135, or 91. What about flight planning rooms? What about the strangest or most funny thing that has gone down in a crewroom?
My favorite FBO crewroom is the Signature at HPN.
The worst FBO crewroom I've ever seen is hands down the smallest ever, Altoona, PA (AOO). In 1999 it was (and I think still is) a 5 by 8 closet with 2 recliners and a 12 inch TV in the corner all the way up in the ceiling. The TV got 2 channels both PBS and black&white, no sound.
Best 121 crewroom I guess would be DCA
Worst is the old trailer aka the "crack shack" in PHL. Haaaa the memories - rampies dealing in the back, rampies smuggling guns, rampies watching boot leg movies and pornos at lunch, the time they broke the glass on the front of the snack machine and stole all the candy out of it, going to get your crew meal out of the fridge and finding out the box bag was tampered with and half your sandwich was gone along with the cookie or muffin only to see a rampy at the picnic table eating what looks like the other half. And O we can't forget the couches, not the ones that showed up when they made that room on the side but the ALG ones in the first room (before they put the dispatch release counter there) that were so infested with lice that you could actually see the lice crawling around on them. The Porn on the Mesa computer. Mesa having ALPA meetings in the 12 by 10 "rest room" with three other airlines present. The picnic table that just wouldn't die (it kept collapsing and Allegheny kept repairing it) you put your legs at risk sitting at it, but it was either that or the lice couch. And last but not least the overflowing Mens bathroom toilets that the rampies would stuff up. Yes I can still see it in my head, the sea of piss and crap that pooled up on the floor by the door to the mens bathroom about once a week. The best was the last 2 weeks before we moved to F terminal in 2001, the company didn't want to pay to fix the overflowed toilets as they were giving the "crack shack" over to the fuelers. They set up port o johns out back. It was june and 90 degerees out so you can imagine the smell in the trailer. We'd hold our breath run in, grab the release and run out as fast as we could.
In the old crew room in LGA I saw a rat about the size of a house cat run from under the couch by the pay phone to behind the soda machine.
My favorite FBO crewroom is the Signature at HPN.
The worst FBO crewroom I've ever seen is hands down the smallest ever, Altoona, PA (AOO). In 1999 it was (and I think still is) a 5 by 8 closet with 2 recliners and a 12 inch TV in the corner all the way up in the ceiling. The TV got 2 channels both PBS and black&white, no sound.
Best 121 crewroom I guess would be DCA
Worst is the old trailer aka the "crack shack" in PHL. Haaaa the memories - rampies dealing in the back, rampies smuggling guns, rampies watching boot leg movies and pornos at lunch, the time they broke the glass on the front of the snack machine and stole all the candy out of it, going to get your crew meal out of the fridge and finding out the box bag was tampered with and half your sandwich was gone along with the cookie or muffin only to see a rampy at the picnic table eating what looks like the other half. And O we can't forget the couches, not the ones that showed up when they made that room on the side but the ALG ones in the first room (before they put the dispatch release counter there) that were so infested with lice that you could actually see the lice crawling around on them. The Porn on the Mesa computer. Mesa having ALPA meetings in the 12 by 10 "rest room" with three other airlines present. The picnic table that just wouldn't die (it kept collapsing and Allegheny kept repairing it) you put your legs at risk sitting at it, but it was either that or the lice couch. And last but not least the overflowing Mens bathroom toilets that the rampies would stuff up. Yes I can still see it in my head, the sea of piss and crap that pooled up on the floor by the door to the mens bathroom about once a week. The best was the last 2 weeks before we moved to F terminal in 2001, the company didn't want to pay to fix the overflowed toilets as they were giving the "crack shack" over to the fuelers. They set up port o johns out back. It was june and 90 degerees out so you can imagine the smell in the trailer. We'd hold our breath run in, grab the release and run out as fast as we could.
In the old crew room in LGA I saw a rat about the size of a house cat run from under the couch by the pay phone to behind the soda machine.
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