A Good Laugh
You know the experience. You thought you heard it all. Then there is that situation comes up that amazes even the most seasoned employee. Tell us about it and let everyone have a good laugh.
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Flying
by: Powerback
07.11.10
My friend kept trying to get her mother to fly out for a visit. "No way am I getting on an airplane," was the in- evitable answer.
"Look, Mom, when it's your time to go, it doesn't matter if you're on the ground or in the air."
"I know," said her mother. "I just don't want to be that far off the ground when it's the pilot's time to go."
[Borrowed from Reader's Digest.] Read More
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Not funny but interesting
by: Tim W
07.7.10
The Eisenhower interstate system requires
that one mile in every five must be straight.
These straight sections are usable as airstrips
in times of war or other emergencies. Read More
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What a Landing
by: Pinkie D
07.3.10
An airplane is coming to land at an airport obscured by fog. Visibility is practically nil, the radar system is on the blink, so the pilot has to land on wits alone.
"Flaps, check," he says to the co-pilot, "Landing Gear, check. Altitude, check. Right, we're going in. Hold on."
The plane lands and comes to a screeching, grinding halt; just short of the edge of the runway.
"Holy Cow!" e Read More
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Sick Leave
by: Paula R
06.27.10
Sick Leave
Negotiations between union members and their employer were at an impasse. The union denied that their workers were flagrantly abusing their contract's sick-leave provisions.
One morning at the bargaining table, the company's chief negotiator held aloft the morning edition of the newspaper.
"This man," he announced, "Called in sick yesterday!"
There on the sports page was Read More
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Flying United
by: mightymouse
06.8.10
I came across this story and thought this definately could have happened.
A flight attendant on a United Air Lines cross-country flight nervously announced: about 30 minutes outbound from LA, "I don't know how this happened, but we have 103 passengers aboard and only 40 dinners."
When the passengers' muttering had died down, she continued, "Anyone who is kind enough to give up his meal so s Read More
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Flying First Class
by: Rodney C
03.22.10
A Mom and Dad were boarding an airplane with our two small children when he commented that it was too bad we weren't flying first class, where we'd have more room for our infant.
"They probably don't allow babies in first class," she said.
"On the contrary," a nearby flight attendant jokingly confided to them. "ALL our first-class passengers are babies." Read More
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Children behaving well
by: Annie K
12.21.09
I like to complement parents when their children are behaving well at the airport. It seems I am giving out fewer complements these days. There was a boy, about 4 years old, standing behind his mother the other day at the check in counter. I asked him why he came to the airport. His reply was “To practice standing quietly while I am in line.†Not the answer I expected, but I defin Read More
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You are not listening
by: Tiff L
12.20.09
There was a frantic lady standing in front of a check in kiosk. The screen was saying she could not check in because her flight had already departed. She looked up and said to the agent. Why is this thing telling me I cannot check in. I am already checked in. All I want to do is check my luggage. Another agent glanced at the screen and told her she could not check her luggage on a flight th Read More
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A day at the Res desk
by: Zak H
12.10.09
A pax calls and asks, "Can you tell me how long it'll take to fly from San Francisco to New York City?"
I tell her "just a minuite" while I am waiting for the info to come up in the computer.
"Thank you," she says, and hangs up.
This didn't happen to me but I thought it was funny. Read More
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by: Morrie
07.31.09
I was working baggage service when a pax walked up and said her luggage wasn't there. When I asked her for her claim check, she said she never got one. The next question was where did you check your luggage, to which she replied at the curb in MSP. Took the report and sent her on her way. A little while later I received a meter from MSP letting me know there is no curb check in MSP. The pax s Read More
