People Who Work In The Airline Industry Share 30 Things Everyone Should Know About Flying

We travel a lot and I really appreciate knowing things like this!

I can confirm: my ex is a pilot, he‘s told me many times not to be concerned and could always predict how the landing would be like. Being the scare-shitter I am, he always had to ease me through flights with that sort of information.

I just want to tell you both good luck, we’re all counting on you.

Runways are supposed to have grooves for draining the rain away. I can see this happening as not every runway has them.

yeah but why does ryanair slam into the ground nose first all the time

Thank you for this. :-) This is also true in hospitals. We're not there to give you a spa experience, much as we'd like one, too.

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Be kinder than necessary. Everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle. --Words I live by.

The crew aboard my Singapore Airlines flight back to the UK from Japan (2nd flight, 1st was Kyoto to Changi, then Changi to London) understood this so well. It was mid March 2020 and everyone was stressed, worried, and trying to get home. A month earlier I'd been kicked by a horse and still had some damage in my leg, and a crew member checked up on me when I was stretching in the vestibule. She also assembled me a meal as my gluten free request hadn't gone through when I booked last minute. So grateful 🙏

My son's friend has cancer.. again. They have to fly from western Oregon to NYC every few months for specialized treatment. They try to make it as fun and vacation-like as they can, but he is almost 16 and it can be extremely hard. I hate to think about some jackwagon making that any harder

Well said... I often think the same thing about people in traffic. Not everyone is an asshat trying to douche out on their way home to veg out to porn and another argument with their SO... some folks are in dire straights and just trying to get by

THANK YOU for that! I'm a nervous flyer, and this is so good to know.

So you’re saying it’s crashed planes before.

Theres an awful lot of sky to fall out of but only a few cm of space between you and another seat/passenger

I think I must be crazy in the head because I love turbulence! It puts me to sleep.

Was on a flight once where a very beery and belligerent man flatly refused to sit down and buckle up at turbulence warning. And serious the plane suddenly dropped, he got shot up from where he stood, banged his head on an overhead locker, knocked himself out, and his unconscious body was booted from neighbouring seats for some minutes throughout the turbulence. And do you know, I think he was used to it.

A good lesson for life in general. You get more bees with honey than you do with crap

I've had attendants be pricks but will always be polite to them, I just take their name and complain afterwards, same goes for excellent cabin crew, always drop the airline an email commending them.

I disagree if anything really happened they are not likely to save your life. They are going to be buckled in their seat also bracing for impact They are there for customer service, making money by selling items and offering credit cards. Plus there has to be someone from the company watching for arguments and customers

This one. Their ultimate goal is to get all the assholes out of the plane, especially the fuckos who do not pay attention during safety instructions and then are the ones who are a turd on the hallways, screaming and crying and possibly killing the attentive ones.

Hmmm, sorry but i trained to be a flight attendant before doing my nursing and its highly unlikely a flight attended could save lives, unless they got medical professionals at the scene fasy.

Not true of all airlines. I think I can guess which country this comes from!

Teachers don't get paid for a lot of work that they do.

Lets' explain, this is the contract and terms their union negotiated, and has insisted on keeping as a clause for over 40 years. If the union is so insistent on this for over 40 years, maybe its a good thing and dont try to white knight a contract you probably dont understand

Flying passengers or clean up their own area. It should look better than when you sat down. I’ve seen many, many passengers who throw peanut shells on the floor, cut their toenails and leave that on the floor, we have tons of baby trash on the floor… Airline stewardess and stewardess or not there to clean up after you. If you can’t keep your s**t and your seat area clean, take a freaking bus.

That is so f*****g absurd and over the top greed profit skimming and should be illegal. If your job requires you to be somewhere at a specific time, doing a specific task... that's f*****g work people and it needs to be paid.

Well that's good to know. Though to be fair I'm going to be off my face on diazepam just giggling at the crazy person

That one Supernatural episode haunted me for years lol.

UH, if they are possed by a demon they can. Do your research about Sam and Dean Winchester thankyouverymuch.

I think DB Cooper would beg to differ about that...

lol Then why do the flight attendants freak out? LOL

Cats DO give a f**k, they just don't show it. In the wild, they are predators but also prey, so it's in their best interest to not draw attention and show weakness.