Family asked to exit CLT/ORD flt
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BoeingBoy
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This was a hot topic on FlyerTalk for several days. Two parents, four children with only one old enough to require a seat (age 3), three tickets for seats next to each other. The plan was to have two children in one seat (presumably the 3 year old and one of the under 2 children) and each parent to hold a lap child - 6 people in three seats side by side (ex.- ABC). Like the game on the comics page, how many things can you find wrong with this picture...
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LOL! I had to take off my shoes to count that high. Sounds like US made the right call
jimntx
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The reason the flight attendants were concerned: oxygen masks. In a 2-seat configuration there are 3 oxygen masks in the drop-down compartment. In a 3 seat configuration, there are 4 masks. Six people in 3 seats no matter how you re-arrange them does not work in a decompression. However, since the passenger in another row offered to hold one of the infants, this would have thinned the herd enough to comply as long as the two parents were not in the same row. After that it is just company policy...i.e., one lap child per adult per family.
nycbusdriver
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Better yet: One lap child per capable adult.
I can't believe they wanted to put a baby on the lap of a three-year old and call that sensible.
jimntx
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Well, but they would have had to purchase the 4th seat which they didn't do. I think the error was allowing them to get seated on the plane before anyone questioned the size of the herd.
Another prime example of what we f/as deal with at AA...that ticket agents, security checkpoints, gate agents, and Electronic Gate Reader operators allow passengers with enough luggage to stock a small store get all the way to the a/c at the bottom of the jetbridge, but all of a sudden it's the flight attendants' fault if the company gets fined by the FAA for not enforcing its (the company's) bag policy, OR, god forbid we should run out of bin space before half the passengers have boarded (In that case, of course, the f/as are cast into outer darkness without hope of redemption.
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Another prime example of what we f/as deal with at AA...that ticket agents, security checkpoints, gate agents, and Electronic Gate Reader operators allow passengers with enough luggage to stock a small store get all the way to the a/c at the bottom of the jetbridge, but all of a sudden it's the flight attendants' fault if the company gets fined by the FAA for not enforcing its (the company's) bag policy, OR, god forbid we should run out of bin space before half the passengers have boarded (In that case, of course, the f/as are cast into outer darkness without hope of redemption.
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In-flight supervisors are probably gonna be issuing some CAD's to the F/As for not offering L.A.S.T..
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jimntx
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CAD? L.A.S.T.? We don't use those terms at AA--though I'm sure we have something similar that we just call something else.
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Ohhh yeah...
CAD = Corrective Action - Discipline = Written warning
L.A.S.T. = Listen Apologize Solve Thanks....
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LAST is the Signature Product of US Airways that every employee must have readily available for the customers in case of discrepancies.
CAD = Corrective Action - Discipline = Written warning
L.A.S.T. = Listen Apologize Solve Thanks....
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LAST is the Signature Product of US Airways that every employee must have readily available for the customers in case of discrepancies.
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Still not as funny as referring to the kiosks as CUSS. 😛
jimntx
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Oh, haven't you heard of the mean ole flight attendants at AA? We NEVER apologize or solve. We're too busy making you to turn off your Words with Friends game?
That will kill a merger right there. It's in our contract that we never have to apologize.
Oh, haven't you heard of the mean ole flight attendants at AA? We NEVER apologize or solve. We're too busy making you to turn off your Words with Friends game?
That will kill a merger right there. It's in our contract that we never have to apologize.
I have no doubt!
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Oh, haven't you heard of the mean ole flight attendants at AA? We NEVER apologize or solve. We're too busy making you to turn off your Words with Friends game?
That will kill a merger right there. It's in our contract that we never have to apologize.
That is too funny....
Trust me... with the Gerry Mirls still running around US Airways in some hidden department, I wouldn't be surprised if she is somewhere training the AA Supervisors on how to harass the F/A's into apologizing.
US Airways will make you apologize, trust me.
That is the Nr. 1 product that they offer = an apology.
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Oh, haven't you heard of the mean ole flight attendants at AA? We NEVER apologize or solve. We're too busy making you to turn off your Words with Friends game?
That will kill a merger right there. It's in our contract that we never have to apologize.
Have you ever met Gloria Holtz?
