BWI757 From Israel, joined Dec 2004, 429 posts, RR: 2 Posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 13470 times:
What NOT to do when they run out of your preferred choice onboard; for correct action read some trip reports! Wonder if they only had 1 can of Mountain Dew onboard
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Maryland man was arrested at Kennedy Airport for hitting a flight attendant after she told him the kitchen had run out of chicken dinners, authorities said yesterday.
Pierre Delis, 36, who had been visiting relatives in Switzerland, allegedly went berserk on American Airlines Flight 65 from Zurich on Sunday, according to a criminal complaint filed in Brooklyn Federal Court....
At the defendant's arraignment, defense lawyer Florian Meidel asked U.S. Magistrate Steven Gold to tell jailers to feed his client because he hadn't had anything to eat since Sunday.
Meidel did not express a meal preference for his client.
COERJ145 From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 1420 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 13383 times:
CHRISBA777ER From UK - England, joined Mar 2001, 5964 posts, RR: 63 Reply 2, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 13344 times:
That really is a fowl thing to do.
He really needs his head chicken, a psychological evaluation of some kind.
What do you mean you dont have any bourbon? Do you know how far it is to Houston? What kind of airline is this???
Jetstream1975 From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2006, 61 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 13298 times:
My favourite when meal option run out from pax are. ' You should be carrying enough of every meal option for each passenger'.
Oh Ok we'll carry over 600 meals and then we'll have no room for passengers
LTBEWR From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 12365 posts, RR: 12 Reply 7, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 13033 times:
Chicken, beef, is there really any difference when it comes to airline 'food'? I think it is the same overprocessed, over salted, covered in glop stuff anyway no matter if so called beef or chicken. Still, assulting or challanging an f/a over your food is bound to put you into jail and properly so nowadays. I hope this guy gets a nasty fine, 30 days in jail and on airline no-fly lists for a while. I am quite sure this guy will be fired from his job, has to face shame from his family and overall will be screwed for the rest of his life over his beheavor over chicken not being available.
NASBWI From Bahamas, joined Feb 2005, 1255 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 12995 times:
Quoting LTBEWR (Reply 7): Chicken, beef, is there really any difference when it comes to airline 'food'? I think it is the same overprocessed, over salted, covered in glop stuff anyway no matter if so called beef or chicken.
Y'know, it's funny how many people agree with that sentiment, but when on a flight somewhere, wait in almost-desperate anticipation of that meal cart with its overprocessed, oversalted, covered-in-glop stuff. Anyone watch (or listen to) Ellen DeGeneres's standup on airline experiences? Hilarious!
B777-700 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 10, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 12909 times:
Quoting NASBWI (Reply 8): Y'know, it's funny how many people agree with that sentiment, but when on a flight somewhere, wait in almost-desperate anticipation of that meal cart with its overprocessed, oversalted, covered-in-glop stuff. Anyone watch (or listen to) Ellen DeGeneres's standup on airline experiences? Hilarious!
What's also hilarious is how pax whine like 6 year olds when there isn't a meal on their flight. You can't win.
NASBWI From Bahamas, joined Feb 2005, 1255 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 12864 times:
Quoting B777-700 (Reply 10): What's also hilarious is how pax whine like 6 year olds when there isn't a meal on their flight. You can't win.
lol how true. Generally speaking though (in many of my experiences), a lot of pax tend to act like 6 year olds about everything; I think they checked their brains in with their luggage at the ticket counter.
example (true story - onboard an A320):
Q: "Excuse me, but umm, where is row 18B?"
A: "Well Ma'am, you're standing in front of row 1. Row 18 will be 17 more rows back. On the right."
Response: "Are you sure?"
Me: *smile and nod*
Airfoilsguy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 12, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 12617 times:
Quoting BWI757 (Thread starter):
Maryland man was arrested at Kennedy Airport for hitting a flight attendant after she told him the kitchen had run out of chicken dinners, authorities said yesterday.
Cwapilot From United States of America, joined May 2000, 1166 posts, RR: 19 Reply 13, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 12219 times:
Psycho reaction for a lack of "chicken." However, maybe it makes up for the time I felt like hitting some AA F/A's on a HNL-ORD flight...they were half way through the plane, telling everyone that nothing was left except for vegetarian meals, yet were found by myself and another guy waiting in line for the lav to be taking 2 and 3 of the supposedly depleted entrees each and combining them on plates for their own consumption. Boy did that galley curtain close fast!
Southside Irish...our two teams are the White Sox and whoever plays the Cubs!
Boeing747_600 From United States of America, joined Oct 1999, 1259 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 11794 times:
SR100 From UK - England, joined Dec 2005, 109 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 11665 times:
Quoting NASBWI (Reply 11): example (true story - onboard an A320):
Q: "Excuse me, but umm, where is row 18B?"
A: "Well Ma'am, you're standing in front of row 1. Row 18 will be 17 more rows back. On the right."
Response: "Are you sure?"
Me: *smile and nod*
But some airlines do not have a row 13, or they start with different numbers after first class in order to make sure, that every first coach row starts with the same number regardless of the size of first/business class.
Or take the numbering of the rows on the Swiss narrow body airbus fleet. There, the number of the rows goes through on the A321, with the exception of the missing row 13. On the A320, we jump from row 17 directly to row 25 and on the A319 from 16 to 28...
There fore I would argue that the passenger asking where row 18 is, must be a very experienced air traveller, which is not the case with the flight attendant!
B777-700 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 18, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 11630 times:
Quoting SR100 (Reply 17): There fore I would argue that the passenger asking where row 18 is, must be a very experienced air traveller, which is not the case with the flight attendant!
Wow. Are you serious?...wow.
I would argue that the passenger should just start walking until they see the big number 18 on the overhead, and not ask stupid questions...
NASBWI From Bahamas, joined Feb 2005, 1255 posts, RR: 0 Reply 19, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 11357 times:
Quoting SR100 (Reply 17): There fore I would argue that the passenger asking where row 18 is, must be a very experienced air traveller, which is not the case with the flight attendant!
Nice argument, but I'll beg to differ. While I won't pretend to be the world's most experienced traveler (particularly working for a primarily-domestic discount carrier), it doesn't take a rocket scientest (much-less a *very experienced air traveller*) to take one look at our cabin, and realize that it's all one section. And it takes even less brain power to look up at the row number, and keep on counting . I'm sure even the most experienced travelers do that every now and again.
Further, to question the validity of the F/A's assurance of the location of the row would be rather asenine, wouldn't it? After all, inexperienced with other A320s as I may be, I know *our* A320s like the back of my hand. Again, 17 rows behind row 1, on the right. Smile and nod.
Zvezda From Lithuania, joined Aug 2004, 10511 posts, RR: 65 Reply 20, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 11322 times:
Quoting Cwapilot (Reply 13): some AA F/A's on a HNL-ORD flight...they were half way through the plane, telling everyone that nothing was left except for vegetarian meals, yet were found by myself and another guy waiting in line for the lav to be taking 2 and 3 of the supposedly depleted entrees each and combining them on plates for their own consumption. Boy did that galley curtain close fast!
I've never seen FAs eat Y food. I always see them eating F/C food. I've also never seen a surplus of vegetarian meals. Airlines generally only board them if they are pre-ordered. Anyway, I hope you wrote to AA about the incident.
SR100 From UK - England, joined Dec 2005, 109 posts, RR: 0 Reply 21, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 11267 times:
Quoting B777-700 (Reply 18): I would argue that the passenger should just start walking until they see the big number 18 on the overhead, and not ask stupid questions...
This is a very practical approach. I did it once on a Thai MD-11, when my friends trusted me to bring them directly to our seats. We were assigned seats in row 47 (or somthing) and were somewhere in row 29, when I thought it will be quite a few rows to our row 47. Next time I looked at the number, we were in row 63! What a mess to move foreward... And how embarassing! They too, they had this jumbing numbers.
B777-700 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 23, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 11043 times:
Quoting SR100 (Reply 21): Next time I looked at the number, we were in row 63! What a mess to move foreward... And how embarassing! They too, they had this jumbing numbers.
ABQopsHP From United States of America, joined May 2006, 837 posts, RR: 3 Reply 24, posted (6 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 10330 times:
This guy should have been on a JR flight from LAX-MZT with a friend of mine. When the F/A got to his row all that was left were Chicken burritos. NO MORE BEEF! She said to the last remaining rows.
26 Virgin747: I forgot to add Mountain Dew's best urban myth is that it shrinks your package..... Makes for great birth control...
27 Lostmoon744: Ha, didn't know that. All the more to avoid the stuff. Maybe it's the Calcium Disodium . The best fizzy drink is still fresh OJ and seltzer water!
29 ShowerOfSparks: Will someone please forward that to Mythbusters
30 WildcatYXU: I'm really curious how would they test that...I'd really like to see that episode.
31 Mowtoib: oh god... you've made my day... they do check in their brains with their bags and from that moment on they do not bother to think supposing you are t
32 Schipholjfk: Are you sure... because I thought several airlines skip ROW #13. Like KLM... goes from 12 to 14. In that case if you are standing in front of row 1,
33 NASBWI: I won't argue that (I've flown on some airlines where 13 - as well as some other rows - are omitted), but on our airplanes, row 13 is not skipped. Tr
34 WildcatYXU: When I read articles like this, I start to wonder if we could create an award for the most stupid passenger of the year. It could be called "The Aviat
35 Swissy: OK he went over board 100% even if he "just" touched the f/a...... but I had a similar experience with AC 878/879 now we all know that flight flys fr
36 Delta777Jet: We here at easyJet do have Row 13...and thank good we are not serving hot meals...and we are never running out of food from our easyKiosk! Next time f
37 Robsawatsky: I am not sure if it is a problem with functional literacy or hoping that row 35 will suddenly appear between row 5 and 6 in Business or First Class.
38 Aerobalance: Sounds like the passenger flew the coup, one must learn to wing it when confronted with adversity - damn chickensh*t...
39 BMIFlyer: What a jerk. She should have slapped him back Lee
40 Commavia: This is absolutely outrageous. These idiots need to be thrown in jail. Why is it that some morons feel that the simple act of traveling by air gives t
41 Swissy: You guys are my preferred airline out of BSL!!!! Let me know........ and keep up the "Easy Spirit" Cheers,
42 Atnight: I tell you, this story just proves how some folks "can't" live without their chicken!! I've seen before how people get into fights because someone too
43 FLYACYYZ: Not to contribute yet another bad chicken pun, but this one needs to be tarred and feathered.
44 Nwafflyer: Seat assignments are funny - I'm usually in first class, and if I'm in row 1 or 2, you have no idea how many passengers are already lost - I point up
45 Wnsocal: Maybe someone should have Chocked this Chicken...hehehehehehehehehe!
47 Ckfred: I could understand this behavior, if the galley had run out of filet mignon, but chicken? Seriously, though, in today's world, one must expect that yo
48 Historic747: That is exactly what I wonder too? You first promise something, create an expectation in the minds of your consumer and then decline the same. This i
49 AA87: I think the defense lawyer was my college classmate ... small world. That's my only comment
51 Comorin: It's not his fault. He had a special meal request for Jerk Chicken...
52 FLFlyGuy: Catering is planned hours in advance of the flight. While your suggestion seems like a good idea, it would only work if you never took the flight tha
53 Zippyjet: F/A's should have told this a-hole, "I'm sorry sir, our chicken dinners were garnished in fresh California spinach!we wouldn't want you or any other o
54 HAWK21M: Looks like pax are loosing their cool very eaisly these days. regds MEL
55 Swissy: I know what you are saying and these things are happening on "domestic" flights more often than long haul....... The point is I like meats like pork,
56 Wunala: Yes there is. I work for a very large international airline catering company, and can say that is a difference.
57 Lostmoon744: Especially with Pollo Campero! Don't get in between Pollo Campero and its master... Bad combination! Yeah for sure. It's between that and the Erythor
58 Mush: Hmmm, is the pilot for that plane a Captain or a Colonel?
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