Check out this hilarious flight attendant on Southwest Airlines. Instead of the boring safety briefing most of us have to hear over and over again, David Holmes turns it into a rap song. He even manages to get the passengers to participate.
I’ve got to say, this is pretty awesome, and just shows the more down to earth attitude you’ll find on carriers like Southwest. Have you flown Southwest and had the pleasure of running into David Holmes? If so, let us know in the comments!
You really have to see this clip to believe it. It shows what appears to be the pilot and one flight attendant smoking pot from a home made bong bottle on their flight.
The description says it is an Aeroflot plane, but I’ve seen others claim it is “just” a freight plane, which would explain why none of the passengers walked to the galley to ask about the smell (of to see if they could join the fun).
By the end of the clip the 2 are clearly pretty buzzed. I just hope the pilot has a competent first officer up front, or it’s going to be a bumpy ride. If anyone has more information on the origin of the clip, feel free to leave us a comment!
Remember that little brouhaha that Ryanair stirred up a few days ago about pay toilets? (Also known as “The Most Ridiculous Thing I’ve Ever Heard.”) Seems as though they’re riding that train (or low-fare airline)…and seeing how far they can go.
The latest in their busy week of announcements: a competition. Yes, they’re asking travelers to suggest other “ingenious, wacky, and creative ideas” for discretionary charges (if not pay toilets, which the company has admitted it was “only joking” about). Among the ideas listed as examples are charges for using the oxygen masks and emergency exits.
Can I just say: thank goodness we’re finally getting to the culmination of what’s turned out to be a PR stunt…so we can potentially forget that it was suggested. After the past few years of charges so strange that you’d expect them to be fake, we wouldn’t want airlines to get any crazy ideas, right?
But anybody wanting to play along can submit ideas for the contest by March 30th. €1000 cash is the prize for the winning idea.
A man from Chicago is suing American Airlines for $7 million after the airline allegedly revoked his lifetime travel pass back in December.
Steven Rothstein paid $250,000 back in 1987 for lifetime, first class travel aboard AA and a few years later ponied up another $150,000 for the right to bring a companion along.
In December, AA revoked the travel pass, saying Rothstein was fraudulently using his passes to make reservations for his friends.
Why is Rothstein suing for $7 million? He says since AA no longer sells lifetime tickets, the alternative cost for buying first class tickets for the rest of his life would be worth about $7 million.
Imagine this. You’re going about your busy day without much thought about what’s going on above your head and then Bam! There’s a bit of an explosion and pieces of metal start falling, some the size of a BlackBerry–others bigger. Not as big as a house, but bigger than a BlackBerry.
“Was Chicken Little right?” you might ask yourself and whoever else is close by, providing those people weren’t beaned by the falling objects.
This scenario is similar to what happened yesterday when an American Airlines flight out of LaGuardia heading for Chicago had an engine explode. Luckily, the plane was designed to fly on just one engine so the plane headed to JFK and landed safely.
Also, luckily, the engine parts fell over an industrial area. Instead of landing on Jimmy and Susy playing on their backyard swing set (although it is still cold out so perhaps they wouldn’t have been out in the backyard), the parts landed on top of a warehouse and scattered across a parking lot, cracking windshields and one of the building’s skylights.
Can’t you just hear the “My words!?” and “What the heck?!” of the people working inside the building? Particularly when they went outside and saw the small pieces of titanium like metal scattered every which way.
There is an investigation to find out what caused the explosion. The McDonnell Douglas-80 plane had 88 passengers on board who now have an interesting story to tell about the time they helped make the sky fall.
The airline’s take is that these things happen. True, but a bit unnerving. I’ve been on three planes that have been diverted because of engine trouble. I wonder if anyone had to duck and cover down below? [via wcbstv.com]