Wanna learn flight attendant-speak? Begin all your sentences with
"Once again", "At this time", and
"In just a few moments...". How to say chicken or beef in multiple languages? Japanese:
toriniku or
gyuniku, Spanish:
pollo or
carne, and my personal favorite, Hawaiian pidgin:
"eh brah, like beef"? ...oh maybe you chicken? Be sure to try that last one in Hawaii, its a favorite joke with the locals and its a great way to show your cultural awareness and sensitivity.
So just as boarding began on my flight today, I saw this "incident" transpire right outside the aircraft. Apparently, someones luggage was dragged for about sixty feet before disintegrating enough to finally roll under the luggage cart. When I stepped onto the catering truck to get a better view, I could see the trail of shredded luggage began well behind the tail of our plane. The funniest part was that the guys standing over it were not the guilty party. That guy just kept going and perhaps didn't realize it even happened. No, these guys stopped to look at the luggage tag, and after confirming it wasn't from their cart, swept the shredded contents into a small pile with their feet as a token gesture of concern, then sped off. We had to call the captain to have someone in Ops collect it because it might be considered
FOD (Foreign Object Debris) near the ingestion area of the number one engine. More importantly, no passengers had taken notice yet, and we wanted to keep it that way. Someone eventually came over with a clear garbage bag and swept everything up. Now, being there when an airline representative presents the luggage (or whats left of it) to the passenger in a clear garbage bag... priceless.
So just as boarding began on my flight today, I saw this "incident" transpire right outside the aircraft. Apparently, someones luggage was dragged for about sixty feet before disintegrating enough to finally roll under the luggage cart. When I stepped onto the catering truck to get a better view, I could see the trail of shredded luggage began well behind the tail of our plane. The funniest part was that the guys standing over it were not the guilty party. That guy just kept going and perhaps didn't realize it even happened. No, these guys stopped to look at the luggage tag, and after confirming it wasn't from their cart, swept the shredded contents into a small pile with their feet as a token gesture of concern, then sped off. We had to call the captain to have someone in Ops collect it because it might be considered FOD (Foreign Object Debris) near the ingestion area of the number one engine. More importantly, no passengers had taken notice yet, and we wanted to keep it that way. Someone eventually came over with a clear garbage bag and swept everything up. Now, being there when an airline representative presents the luggage (or whats left of it) to the passenger in a clear garbage bag... priceless.
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