Quoting Mcmax (Reply 4): On flights that involve a time zone change, the meal orders for westbound flights are taken from the rear of business/first class to the front. What is the purpose of this? I am sure there is one but I can't think of why that would be. This goes back to the days of smoking o...
Jump to postDelta flight 732 that crashed in Boston back in 1972 was a scheduled <acronym title="Burlington - International (BTV / KBTV), USA - Vermont">BTV</acronym>-<acronym title="Boston - General Edward Lawrence Logan International (BOS / KBOS), USA - Massachusetts">BOS</acronym> nonstop that made an unsche...
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Jump to postOn <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> Infant Seats are not allowed in the row forward or aft of a window exit per the manual, the briefing flight attendant is supposed to verify that those rows are clear of child seats. When I'm the #1 and see a car seat I always ask them what row...
Jump to postThe thing that bothered me the most was that this nitwit took the flight attendants name and then went to her Facebook page to look for the picture, what a creep. I have loads of pictures sitting in engines of various aircraft all over the world, if we board by stairs you can bet the crew are taking...
Jump to postBOS-NRT was canceled before it started in the summer of 1998 because the slots that were awarded were at awful times.
Jump to postAt <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> we have a saying, Bracket, crack it, Lever, never. On the Super 80 and 737 we open the door from the inside, on the rest of the fleet when the agent knocks we give a thumbs up and they open it from the outside to prevent slide deployments, how...
Jump to postCheck out Departed Flights.com, he has a bunch of vintage seat maps on there and Continental is one of the airlines.
MikeBOS
Boston is getting the 321S in November for one flight to <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym>, they are training all the <acronym title="Boston - General Edward Lawrence Logan International (BOS / KBOS), USA - Massachusetts">BOS</acronym> flight a...
Jump to postIt wasn't so much the weather as Massport, I was working the 9pm out of Miami and when we got to Boston they held us and then closed Logan due to runway deicing problems. We went down to <acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK), USA - New York">JFK</acronym> f...
Jump to postI flew on one from <acronym title="Boston - General Edward Lawrence Logan International (BOS / KBOS), USA - Massachusetts">BOS</acronym>-<acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym> around 1979 or 80. I flew on these a few times on once they went to <acro...
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Jump to postIn a word, No. I worked that flight last week and it was under 100 pax each way.
The flight ends on Dec 12th and comes back April of next year.
mikeBOS
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Jump to postIt was on our flight from SNN to BOS yesterday, 5/17/06.
mikeBOS
I work this flight all the time. Because of the late departure, 2120 there is only a beverage/meal combo shortly after takeoff and about an hour and a half before landing there is a warm pastry and coffee/juice service. This flight usually clocks in around 5 to 5.5 hours. On the way back to <acronym...
Jump to postEastern used to have an attraction at the Magic Kingdom in Florida called The Wings Of Man, when they were the official airline of Walt Disney World and I think Delta had one there also when they took over the title but it's all a haze now.
mikeBOS
They just took a page out of the AMR playbook, nuff said.
mikeBOS
I'm pretty sure the Caribbean is going BOB on March 1st so special meals won't be an option.
Cheers,
mikeBOS
The main difference is that you paid more for your tickets in the 80's and 90's than you pay now. Something had to give and it was service followed by salaries. It cost my mom more to get a van ride to <acronym title="Boston - General Edward Lawrence Logan International (BOS / KBOS), USA - Massachus...
Jump to postAt first I too thought it was a spoof but the people in that video are actual instructors from our training department. The video was shot on one of the simulators and in the training center itself. I would bet this is something we will be watching at EPT's this year. We'll see, I have them next mon...
Jump to postI was a ramper for Command Airways back in the 80's. Back then training consisted of a week of classroom training and a week of OTJ training with a ramp instructor. We started at $6 something an hour and had a lot of pride in the job, you would never be late for an arrival, everyone pitched in to do...
Jump to postNow they are saying the suspect was fatally wounded and the passengers are still on the flight.
mikeBOS
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Jump to postTake the van from the terminal to the Radisson LAX. The walk down Sepulveda takes about 10 mins to In And Out. A little past it is a great Trader Joes.
mikeBOS
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Jump to postI'm International and was used on a domestic trip this week. one leg to <acronym title="San Francisco - International (SFO / KSFO), USA - California">SFO</acronym>, less than 8 hours at the hotel, work to <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym>, sit ...
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Jump to postI checked SABRE and the only flights I saw cancelled out of <acronym title="Miami - International (MIA / KMIA), USA - Florida">MIA</acronym> were one each to <acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KDFW), USA - Texas">DFW</acronym> and <acronym title="Chicago - O'Hare Internationa...
Jump to postEgypt Air Flt 990 on October 31, 1999
Singapore Airlines Flt 006 on October 31, 2000
1 year to the day.
mikeBOS
When we started the <acronym title="Shannon (SNN / EINN), Ireland">SNN</acronym> service from Boston, a crew deadheaded over on Aer Lingus 2 days before the return flight, so if I had to guess I'd say the whole cabin crew plus 2 cockpit crew will deadhead over on <acronym title="British Airways">BA<...
Jump to postSorry to hear about your troubles. If I were you I'd document as much as you can about said incidents and get in touch with your company's Human Resources Dept. I work for <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> and that is the quickest way to get results, especially with the racial is...
Jump to postThere was a small jet back in the 70's called the VFW 614 that had the engines mounted on top of the wing. It was one of the first "regional jets", I think it held 44 passengers and actually looked pretty cool. I'm too lazy to pull out any books to look it up but I'm pretty sure it was made in Germa...
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Jump to postIt left 3 mins early, diverted to <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym> because of a mx, ETD into <acronym title="Honolulu - International / Hickam AFB (HNL / HIK / PHNL / PHIK), USA - Hawaii">HNL</acronym> at 1643. That's all the info that was in ...
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Jump to postAA <acronym title="Boston - General Edward Lawrence Logan International (BOS / KBOS), USA - Massachusetts">BOS</acronym>-<acronym title="Manchester - International (Ringway) (MAN / EGCC), United Kingdom">MAN</acronym> and <acronym title="Boston - General Edward Lawrence Logan International (BOS / KB...
Jump to postThis is for any of you folks who have any info about Shannon, we start flying there on May 1st and am wondering what there is to do around there. We assume we will be at an airport hotel as we haven't heard anything different yet? What I am wondering about is sightseeing? Grocery stores such as Sain...
Jump to postBOB started today, at least that's the message we received today. I fly international so haven't really kept up with the program. Comp meals were supposed to stop yesterday, hope this helps.
cheers, mike
Starlionblue, <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym>'s 777's have 9 Lavs, 2 at the front of 1st, 3 in the front of business, 2 at 3LR and 2 at 4LR. I work this plane all the time and know where every lav is since I drink at least a gallon of H2O on each flight <img src="/discuss...
Jump to postThis is very common in the US, myself have commuted from <acronym title="Lan Chile">LA</acronym> to <acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK), USA - New York">JFK</acronym> and from <acronym title="Boston - General Edward Lawrence Logan International (BOS / KBO...
Jump to postThis just happened on a <acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym>-<acronym title="Boston - General Edward Lawrence Logan International (BOS / KBOS), USA - Massachusetts">BOS</acronym> flight the other day. When we got our final paperwork, we had one too many in Bi...
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