Alistair the Cabin Supervisor

People standing up before the seatbelt sign goes off...grrrrr. My pet hate. I could rant for England on that one.


Q) Why do you do it?
A) I do it to get off the plane faster

No, you won't. Idiot, look how wide the aisle is. Stay in your seat, chill out, then when the door is open and people move down you can get up, get your bag down and move off the plane.

Of course, if you must, thenoff you go. Stand up, potentially hurt yourself (no problems with that)or hurt someone else when you fall over/drop your bag on someone. Now you've got your bag down what are you going to do? Stand with your head squeezed under the overhead bin and wait, fuming slightly at the incopetence of the airline and its crew who are trying to ensure that you get off the plane safely.

Tw@ts

Disengage rant mode, and relax.

I'm off for a pint of the black stuff [8D]

VSlf

(edited to clarify)

loved the comment
"edited to clarify"
brings to mind all sort of expeltives that were removed !
steve:)

quote:I do it to get off the plane faster

So I can spend real quality time by the baggage carousel . . . . .

perhaps an I Q test before boarding would be appropriate in some cases
steve

quote:Originally posted by candyman
perhaps an I Q test before boarding would be appropriate in some cases
steve

be fair, I mean if that policy was implemented on airlines operating football charters, they'd be flying empty a/c

especially on the ones wit hthe players on
steve

quote:Originally posted by Vslf
People standing up before the seatbelt sign goes off...grrrrr. My pet hate. I could rant for England on that one.

Also a big pet hate of mine too! People are so predictable, the very second the fasten seatbelt sign goes off all you can hear is the clicking of seat belts and then people get up and hunch over underneath the bins as there is not enough room to stand up.

I bet they are the same people who press the open door button on the train 10 times before the train actually comes to a stop.... Or the people on the underground who guide the train doors open with their hand as they attempt to shave a nanosecond off their exit time, only to get caught waiting for a 2 minutes at the staircase with everyone else!

.... and dont even get me started on the people who wait until they get to the ticket barrier before hunting for their train ticket, therefore holding everyone else up behind them. What makes it worse is its the people you see every day who do it!

Ok am getting a bit off topic now, I dont even get a Virgin train

OIr like an ex boss of mine who saw "gate closing" as another chance to get a second coffee and would saunter to the gate as for thge third time they would be calling our names!

So it's not just me then?

What about the security line?

Every three yards there's the sign reminding you to that your coat and phone need to go through the scanner. Then all of a sudden (wow it all happens so quickly doesn't it?), every other person is taken totally by surprise and stands there, emptying pockets and looking mystified as they are asked to take their coat off and whether they have a mobile or keys in their pockets.

I think that's why London City is my favourite airport (shame my favourite airline doesn't fly from there). Seems that all the passengers from City fly regularly and know what they're doing. Get to security and everyone has boarding card/passport ready, open at back page, coat off, nothing metalic. Normal time from arriving at airport to sitting down in departure lounge is about ten minutes max....then there's Heathrow.

VSlf

They should make 'those' passengers fly the Internal Ukrainian flights on Donbass Airways - You are only allowed out of your seat once the Captian has walked through!

Great fun though on the Antonov 24s!!!

quote:Originally posted by arfortune
They should make 'those' passengers fly the Internal Ukrainian flights on Donbass Airways - You are only allowed out of your seat once the Captian has walked through!

That's what we need - a bit more deference to authority!

quote:Originally posted by 748748
the plane was at that 30-45 degree angle

Are you sure this wasn't a space shuttle? That's some angle for a 747 - poor woman was probably looking for her rosary beads, or clean underwear!

Alistair is extremely funny and it's refreshing not to hear dani bear again! Its true that your more likely to pay attention if its an origonal script!

I think the IFS do an outstanding job - last year I was on a LGW-MIA flight on the 27th June the flight was dead as VA were shortly routing all miami via heathrow and most people didn't want to fly back to a different airport.

I was in the small cabin behind UC and only 1 other person was there so the IFS would come and sit by be every few hours and chat as I was flying solo and it was very quiet!

I Couldn't nominate her for Hero's as the deadline had elasped.