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Godholio posted:I don't believe I've ever been on a flight that had a stewardess under the age of 50. I know for a fact I've never seen one I'd want to gently caress. You need to fly on Virgin. Basically models.
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Godholio posted:I don't believe I've ever been on a flight that had a stewardess under the age of 50. I know for a fact I've never seen one I'd want to gently caress. You've never flown on an Asian airline.
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Barnsy posted:You need to fly on Virgin. Basically models. I think you watch too many advertisements.
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Sep 14, 2014 06:02
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Virgin America has top 80 (in priority) flight attendants that are around 30 years old. I cant see that being anywhere close to being true on a legacy carrier.
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Sep 14, 2014 07:26
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Well, they did have that "reality" TV show a few years back about some of their flight attendants. I saw one of them as part of the disembarking crew of a plane I was working on. So I guess that's kind of like being a model. I had to sit through some of that show more times than I'd ever wish upon an enemy with the nightly IFE checks I had to do...
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Sep 14, 2014 07:38
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iyaayas01 posted:You've never flown on an Asian airline. This is true. We only got commercial flights within CONUS or to sandy, lovely places. Anywhere else we took our own jets and you were FAR more likely to see someone walking around with his testicles literally hanging out than to see a hottie walking the aisle.
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Sep 14, 2014 07:46
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Godholio posted:I don't believe I've ever been on a flight that had a stewardess under the age of 50. I know for a fact I've never seen one I'd want to gently caress. Just like the pilots, regionals are full of flight attendants under 30 seriously wondering what went wrong in their life.
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Sep 14, 2014 08:48
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Godholio posted:I don't believe I've ever been on a flight that had a stewardess under the age of 50. I know for a fact I've never seen one I'd want to gently caress. Singapore Airlines and Emirates out of Melbourne must be lucky. More often than not, Cathay Pacific also has decent looking staff. I'd say Malaysia wasn't too bad, but no one is flying on them to look and find out - so I don't know. Virgin Australia used to have a policy of having ridiculously hot women running their flights, a court case a few years back stopped that.
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I think if you did a detailed study of flight times, you'd find very little change. In the olden days of cheap fuel, you had aircraft flying at higher speeds, but they were also more limited, navigationally, both due to navigational technology, and limitations of the air traffic system. Now, air carriers get more direct routing, and much better weather avoidance, flow control, etc, but they also cruise slower, to save fuel. Internationally, it might be different, since long haul aircraft tend to cruise at a higher Mach, but then again, most oceanic airspace and navigation hasn't changed much since the sixties, and there are many more narrow body jets on thin long-haul routes than there used to be, due to ETOPS. BAW A318 KJFK-EGLC 
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MrYenko posted:BAW A318 KJFK-EGLC ACA a319 CYYT-EGLL 
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MrYenko posted:BAW A318 KJFK-EGLC That's British Airways' all-business-class service from JFK to London City, right? Doesn't seem too bad: eastbound, you have a quick customs clearing in the middle of London, instead of at Heathrow an hour out of town. Coming back west, you clear customs at a refueling stop in Ireland (London City's runways aren't long enough for a full fuel load), and land as domestic at JFK. Edit: http://www.britishairways.com/en-us/information/travel-classes/business/club-world-london-city Cocoa Crispies fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Sep 14, 2014 |
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Sep 14, 2014 15:21
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Cocoa Crispies posted:That's British Airways' all-business-class service from JFK to London City, right? Doesn't seem too bad: eastbound, you have a quick customs clearing in the middle of London, instead of at Heathrow an hour out of town. Coming back west, you clear customs at a refueling stop in Ireland (London City's runways aren't long enough for a full fuel load), and land as domestic at JFK.
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iyaayas01 posted:You've never flown on an Asian airline. Also Etihad. Even the KLM flights from Chicago to Frankfurt I've been on looked like the cast if a multiculturalism photo shoot of women in their twenties and thirties who spoke sixteen languages between the lot of them. It seems that tiny puddle jumper connections often have younger workers who aren't heavily entrenched in the flight attendant career in big companies yet.
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MrYenko posted:
I had a Scandinavian 737 going from sowewhere Scandinavia way to IAH yesterday.
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Cocoa Crispies posted:That's British Airways' all-business-class service from JFK to London City, right? Doesn't seem too bad: eastbound, you have a quick customs clearing in the middle of London, instead of at Heathrow an hour out of town. Coming back west, you clear customs at a refueling stop in Ireland (London City's runways aren't long enough for a full fuel load), and land as domestic at JFK. Ticket price approximately £2500-£3500, and surprisingly enough not available for staff travel perks either... The two planes look decent enough inside, though I've never had a good wander around. Perhaps I should go annoy their engineers for a proper tour next weekend... Brovine fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Sep 15, 2014 |
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Sep 14, 2014 16:23
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KingPave posted:Singapore Airlines and Emirates out of Melbourne must be lucky. More often than not, Cathay Pacific also has decent looking staff. I'd say Malaysia wasn't too bad, but no one is flying on them to look and find out - so I don't know. You can add Asiana and Korean to that list. And yeah, good point about the regionals.
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Seconding Emirates, I know a girl who just recently got a job with them (moved out of the states to Dubai), she's 24 and a solid 8 at minimum. From her photos too it seems like there are more the a couple of those over there.
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iyaayas01 posted:You can add Asiana and Korean to that list. Looking forward to my trip to Taiwan this Friday.  Of course, first leg is code share with United.
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I have flown Korean and Asiana quite a bit. Can confirm that the FAs are very fine. Also for some reason Air Transat has some very good looking FAs as well, (Who party like goddamn)
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Cocoa Crispies posted:That's British Airways' all-business-class service from JFK to London City, right? Doesn't seem too bad: eastbound, you have a quick customs clearing in the middle of London, instead of at Heathrow an hour out of town. Coming back west, you clear customs at a refueling stop in Ireland (London City's runways aren't long enough for a full fuel load), and land as domestic at JFK. actually it's a fuel and customs stop in Shannon iirc. Ireland has the same sort of agreement that Canada does, where you can clear US customs prior to departure, so when you land you just get of the plane (at a normal domestic gate) and leave the airport, no hassles. The UK doesn't have that sort of agreement.
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also this conversation about fit young flight attendants sounds like creepy middle aged men rating the local Hooters or something. I honestly don't give a poo poo what the FA looks like, as long as they aren't miserable assholes.
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Linedance posted:also this conversation about fit young flight attendants sounds like creepy middle aged men rating the local Hooters or something. I honestly don't give a poo poo what the FA looks like, as long as they aren't miserable assholes. Yeah, seriously. Go watch some porn or have sex with a lady or do literally anything less creepy than continuing in this vein.
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The best FAs are the ones who give you the whole can of soda regardless of age, sex, looks, creed, religion, etc. 
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The worst FA was the one I had on a SouthWest/ATA flight recently, who as we were boarding, was making loud jokes about how bad the pilot was, then preceded to tell an elderly woman who appeared to be suffering from dementia/Alzheimers and was terrified of flying that we were going to Sacramento (we were not going to Sacramento). Oh and I almost forgot, announced over the PA that everyone needed to hurry up and sit down because they were finishing a rotation or something and she hadn't seen her family in 4 days and wanted to get back as quickly as possible, so quit dawdling and sit down. It was hilariously bad. The whole flight (737-800) she was shouting down the aisles at people, interjecting herself into their conversations at screaming-level volume. vvv - It's objectively bad. Leif. fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Sep 14, 2014 |
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Speaking of Southwest, I hate their new paint scheme. It might just be because I'm not used to it, though, it's certainly not awful like American's.
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^No, it looks bad in those renders. Maybe it'll look better in person, I dunno.Linedance posted:also this conversation about fit young flight attendants sounds like creepy middle aged men rating the local Hooters or something. I honestly don't give a poo poo what the FA looks like, as long as they aren't miserable assholes. Guess what two words can often describe the bitter old women inhabiting the jump seats on US carriers? Edit: That conversation wasnt that creepy, jfc. God help some of you people if you ever leave the basement. Godholio fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Sep 14, 2014 |
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Godholio posted:Edit: That conversation wasnt that creepy, jfc. God help some of you people if you ever leave the basement. It would be creepy if you were having it in public in front of them, which makes it creepy. And the best flight attendants are the ones who leave you alone.
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Sagebrush posted:And the best flight attendants are the ones who leave you alone. LOL @ Lufthansa flight attendants leaving me alone despite having that light on for two hours. They always run by too so I can't flag them down.
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Godholio posted:
I've heard them referred to as "cat ranchers", which is a brilliant term.
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Godholio posted:Edit: That conversation wasnt that creepy, jfc. God help some of you people if you ever leave the basement. quote:Seconding Emirates, I know a girl who just recently got a job with them (moved out of the states to Dubai), she's 24 and a solid 8 at minimum. From her photos too it seems like there are more the a couple of those over there. Look it's just a creepy conversation and this thread is starting to sound an awful lot like that chauvinistic Southwest pilot that had the stuck mic. More planes.  This is now at my airport and I know the owner. He says it's aerobatic and he has parachutes. Sure felt like an invitation but I'm not so sure. I'll need to touch base with him soon. The Ferret King fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Sep 14, 2014 |
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priznat posted:The best FAs are the ones who give you the whole can of soda regardless of age, sex, looks, creed, religion, etc. Agreed. I don't care if her face looks like an English bulldog chewed a wasp, if she gives me the whole coke, she is my favorite person for the next hour or so. It bugged the hell out of me when I flew Delta as a teenager, that they wouldn't give you the whole can unless you asked. More so because they would just toss whatever didn't get poured out half the time.
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YF19pilot posted:Looking forward to my trip to Taiwan this Friday. That was about the only thing good about the clusterfuck of my travel back from my last TDY to Korea, United's system got so snarled that they ended up booking me code shared on an Asiana flight. I'd flown over the previous time on Asiana so as soon as the agent said that my anger evaporated. Enjoy the slippers and the food.
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YF19pilot posted:Agreed. I don't care if her face looks like an English bulldog chewed a wasp, if she gives me the whole coke, she is my favorite person for the next hour or so. It bugged the hell out of me when I flew Delta as a teenager, that they wouldn't give you the whole can unless you asked. More so because they would just toss whatever didn't get poured out half the time. I typically order tonic water and almost always get the whole can without asking. I then pour an airline bottle of gin in it. edit: I didn't realize it was specifically illegal to do this, so I guess I'm gonna stop now.
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MrYenko posted:BAW A318 KJFK-EGLC I used to cater that plane at JFK and it is really roomy inside with only 32 seats. The flight attendants were always much nicer than the wide body crews.
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priznat posted:The best FAs are the ones who give you the whole can of soda regardless of age, sex, looks, creed, religion, etc. Ha, yeah. Frankly the older FAs tend to be better at providing decent service while still knowing how to get poo poo done when some clown can't store their bags properly.
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The Ferret King posted:He says it's aerobatic and he has parachutes. Parachutes for the rich owner and not the aircraft what about the poor innocents on the ground oh who will think about the oppressed masses  (yeah I'm still a bit pissed off about that D&D thread; I should just let it go I know)
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Colonial Air Force posted:Speaking of Southwest, I hate their new paint scheme. It might just be because I'm not used to it, though, it's certainly not awful like American's. I feel like it would be better if they just made the yellow bit a little more orange. I haven't seen it in person yet though, only photos.
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CharlesM posted:LOL @ Lufthansa flight attendants leaving me alone despite having that light on for two hours. They always run by too so I can't flag them down. Heard a US Flight Attendant refer to that as the "emergency bell." The button that has a picture of a person holding a tray.
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StandardVC10 posted:I feel like it would be better if they just made the yellow bit a little more orange. I haven't seen it in person yet though, only photos. I'm not getting the hate. Are solid primary colors cheap looking? I am think it looks more interesting than yet another white plane.
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MrChips posted:Parachutes for the rich owner and not the aircraft what about the poor innocents on the ground oh who will think about the oppressed masses Yeah I'm not getting mixed up in that. Discussing emergency procedures for aircraft is exactly the same as condemning seat belts and motorcycle helmets. Eyes glaze over, interest lost. Back to thread about pretty/ugly airplanes (not pretty/ugly flight attendants).
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