First off, the mother called the Flight Attendants as stewardess. She
might as well had called them whores. Ok, maybe not that bad but it is
demeaning and the term steward/ess has been out of use for a couple of
decades. She should learn the right name.


Jay Honeck wrote:
Can't get your kid to behave on a plane? There's always Trailways...

or the luggage hold.

Hooray for AirTran!

agreed 150%.


Now if only they would stop serving the lard-butt behemoths that
oooooze across the armrests -- or at least make them buy two seats (or
a wider First Class seat) -- I *might* consider flying commercial
again.

Agreed even more although in economy plus section on UA only which you
either pay for or have frequent flier status. They are generally
business travelers. The ones of gross size (pun intended) generally get
their companies to pay for C or F. Further, being a United 1K (I did
140k miles last year on UA), UA usually keeps the seats next to you
empty unless the load factor demands it.

The last time I had to deal with that was when I flew WN SJC SNA. I was
thee last person to get on the plane. Middle seat. Last Row. Aisle
seat had a 500 lb sau. Seconds after passing through FL180, the seat
belt sign and I jumped up. I started to ask the flight attendant about
the woman and in mid sentence she interrupted me and said I should
complain. While getting off the plane, another passenger came up to me
and said "wow. I felt really bad for you. You have all my sympathy." I
went down to the customer service desk and they sounded like they were
waiting for me. I got the price of the one-way ticket plus $100 in
voucher form. Not bad and it keeps WN honest.

My worst flight ever was flying HKG YYZ (toronto) SCL (Santiago) on AC.
First time I ever had paid business class seats. Change of A/C from
a A346 to a A345 (or A345 to A344). I got downgraded. Migrant farm
worker with his bare feet sticking in the aisle way, on the tray tables,
over the head of the passenger in front of him. The kid screamed for 5
hours straight. They tried quieting the baby by hitting the monster.
The changed the kid on the tray table too. Worst yet, I got up to
stretch and came back the M****er F***er was sleeping in my seats with
his lice-ridden hair on my pillows (AC gave me the 4 middle seats in Y).
The 2nd short flight, only 10 or so hours, was on a 762 that made
the old Archers I fly look like they were new. I said to the pilot,
"let me guess, this is thee gimli glider." Do a websearch for "air
canada gimli 767." This is during the early to mid-80's AC 767 after
running out of fuel and dead sticking it into a closed air field.

unfortunately my company wont' let employees fly themselves unless you
are flying 2 particular tail numbers. I guess I have to get a type
rating for a Citation and transfer departments. ;-) I wish I could use
my million miles on UA for a type rating in a RJ.

Ok enough talk about passenger'ing. I did have a beautiful San
fRancisco Bay Tour last night. 1 hour of piloting a 1981 Archer over
what looks like a model city of San Francisco complete with twinkling
lights is so much more enjoyable than sitting in first on a UA jet. My
pax enjoyed it too although they complained about no peanuts. ;-)

Gerald Sylvester