NRT>YVR>SEA bad flight experience

[Bucky]

[Tsuru]

Whenever I hear someone complain about this stuff I am always reminded of the second half of this:

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[FG Lurker]

First world problems eh...

[Coligny]

Yeah technologically speaking... much as improved since zee Hindenburg...
Now for the service part...

Most of the time, i'd rather be an unpaid extra in a german sheissporno rather than deal with customer service...

Especially in France where people consider themselves barely paid enough to be late at work and act at best as cardboard standouts... unless they are in a bad mood and you either will need horse tranquiliser soon or a good lawyer after splattering their brain all over the desk...

[matsuki]

First world problems eh...

Seriously...When I'm taking American carriers, I'm usually happy when they're under 50....let alone can even speak another language. What a whiny racist bitch. (Korean) It's pronounced cock bitch, put it in your moufffffff!

[dimwit]

Air Canada flight attendants don't have to be courteous, they are unionized and essentially have a monopoly in overseas travel to Canada.

[BigInJapan]

Air Canada flight attendants don't have to be courteous, they are unionized and essentially have a monopoly in overseas travel to Canada.

I only flew on Air Canada a couple of times in the early 90's, and it sucked back then. I don't think any of the female staff were under 40, or under 80kg either.
And attitude - if you have the audacity to call them away from chinwagging in the galley to ask for a Coke, it was like pulling teeth.
I pretty much only use JAL these days. Flew Singapore Air once from NRT>LAX, and dayum, it was like being in a flying fashion show.

[Yokohammer]

Flew Singapore Air once from NRT>LAX, and dayum, it was like being in a flying fashion show.

Yeah, Singapore Air offers some of the best scenery.

[matsuki]

Yeah, Singapore Air offers some of the best scenery.

THIS

Thai air stewardesses aren't too bad either but the landings make you feel like you like you almost lost your life. I've been using ANA and Singapore mostly though, mileage mileage!

[Greji]

Yeah, Singapore Air offers some of the best scenery.

Singapore Air is evidence there is a God for flight attendants.....
United Airlines provides the opposition....

[matsuki]

United Airlines provides the opposition....

UA has attendants that are old enough to be your mom Grej, and they got that "left for a younger goat" attitude

[Coligny]

If I remember well, Cathay's girls were quite bonerworthy too, this and their 'open canteen'(*) policy made the flight nearly enjoyabul...

(*) Basically at the start of the flight they made an anoucement that aside for the scheduled lunch and diner that would be served at your seat, everything else was freely available anytime in the galley...

[matsuki]

If I remember well, Cathay's girls were quite bonerworthy too, this and their 'open canteen'(*) policy made the flight nearly enjoyabul...

(*) Basically at the start of the flight they made an anoucement that aside for the scheduled lunch and diner that would be served at your seat, everything else was freely available anytime in the galley...

Yeah, the all you can drink airlines are awesome....til you arrive

[Catoneinutica]

Singapore Air is evidence there is a God for flight attendants.....
United Airlines provides the opposition....

On a flight back from SFO I decided to upgrade to "Premium Economy," and, requesting assistance with the phucking passport-scanning machine, was helped by a weirdly friendly UA flight attendant. Later, on the plane, I moved to the middle row, where I had five seats. She came over and, perching over the seat in front of me, said, well, you really aren't allowed to switch seats like that, but maybe we can work something out.... EWWW! She was thin, but she had an old, leathery hide tanned to a deep, wrinkly rich-Corinthian-leather patina. Must've been pretty desperate to try to chat up some pissant Economy passenger.

-catone
-and besides, I don't want women my age to be interested in me.
-except for Mrs. Catone.

[Jack]

Found this recount of a Tokyo>Vancouver>Seattle flight experience.


It goes on. . .

I read the thing and it's a load of crap. The Coke thing isn't even worthy of mention and as for immigration cards everyone needs to fill them even Canadians. The whole thing looks bogus to me and a good pretext to bitch on Air Canada which by the way, I think has a great product to North America. Singapore Airlines is the most overrated airline in the world and is losing its sex apppeal as airlines in China and developing Asia surpass it.

If you want goood looking FAs look no further than JAL. It has some of the finest in the air.

[Greji]

I read the thing and it's a load of crap. The Coke thing isn't even worthy of mention and as for immigration cards everyone needs to fill them even Canadians. The whole thing looks bogus to me and a good pretext to bitch on Air Canada which by the way, I think has a great product to North America. Singapore Airlines is the most overrated airline in the world and is losing its sex apppeal as airlines in China and developing Asia surpass it.

If you want goood looking FAs look no further than JAL. It has some of the finest in the air.

Shake your head Jack. Your eyes are stuck and your brain needs rebooting.

[Proxy]

Must've been pretty desperate to try to chat up some pissant Economy passenger.

no doubt....

i don't even chat with the jokers in the economy section. they're all so.....middle class.....

[Tsuru]

If I remember well, Cathay's girls were quite bonerworthy too, this and their 'open canteen'(*) policy made the flight nearly enjoyabul...

(*) Basically at the start of the flight they made an anoucement that aside for the scheduled lunch and diner that would be served at your seat, everything else was freely available anytime in the galley...

Exactly... hell, they even had fruit! Knowing what fresh fruit costs in HKG makes it all the more amazing... I think must have had more than $100 worth of apples on the way back to AMS this spring. Cathay is highly recommended... nice FA's, good food, good service. Only slight irritation was their hyper-anal attitude to 6ft+ smartarses like me using the jumpseats to sit down for a moment and stretch their legs. Even if you think you can sneak out of your (non-reclining) shellseat in the dead of night to steal some more apples and sit on the wide row of jumpseats in the back of the 747 for a minute, there will be a stark "You can no sit here! You can no sit here!" from an invariably male member of the crew. I mean, come on.... it was never a problem at any other airline I flew on. Even if at FL390 all engines fail or Thor's mighty hammer strikes down on us I'll have plenty of time to get back to my seat if it makes any difference...

Also, their long-range aircraft are getting kind of long in the tooth... I flew the same RR-powered 747-400 both ways (B-HUD), and I have a strong suspicion we experienced two surges in engine #4 during cruise. There are many other reports of engine failures on this fleet on the internet, so make of that what you will.

[Coligny]

Also, their long-range aircraft are getting kind of long in the tooth... I flew the same RR-powered 747-400 both ways (B-HUD), and I have a strong suspicion we experienced two surges in engine #4 during cruise. There are many other reports of engine failures on this fleet on the internet, so make of that what you will.

Me Julie had quite a bit of ceiling leak in one of her Paris-sumwhere-Nagoya flights few years ago... Hopefully the plane was quite empty so people where relocated to the non-wet seats...

[Jack]

Shake your head Jack. Your eyes are stuck and your brain needs rebooting.

OK, I just did what you said and I'm still getting the same picture. JAL FAs are as hot as any. I personally prefer to fly ANA when I can out of Japan but I find the JAL chicks nicer.

Look, take the Cathay FAs, the Singapore, Thai, Asiana and Eva, out of a crew of 16 or so FAs on a flight there will be half that are hot and half older ok ones. People tend to focus on the Singapore advertising and salivate over the girls. I have flown them a few times and the girls were basically average. All Asian carriers have nice looking FAs. I happen to like the Japanese version.

[Greji]

OK, I just did what you said and I'm still getting the same picture. JAL FAs are as hot as any. I personally prefer to fly ANA when I can out of Japan but I find the JAL chicks nicer.

I would have agreed with you ten, maybe 15 years ago. JAL was still king of the hill, but since their so-called attempts to privatize and the hiring of "part-time" flight attendants, they have begun the dogging down. The overseas flights probably do draw some cheese, but they definitely got some bowsers on the domestic routes. I think part of that also is that being a flight attendant has lost a lot of the glamour it used to get in Japan. Not like in older days when most young girls would openly dream of being a stewardess" as the career of choice. That era is over and by going to the part timers (to save money), JAL now collects a lot of rovers that would never have gotten a bone before. On the Domestic routes, I think I have seen a much better selection of girls on the ANA flights of late. Much better than JAL, at least IMHO.

[Proxy]

I think part of that also is that being a flight attendant has lost a lot of the glamour it used to get in Japan. Not like in older days when most young girls would openly dream of being a stewardess" as the career of choice. That era is over and by going to the part timers (to save money), JAL now collects a lot of rovers that would never have gotten a bone before. On the Domestic routes, I think I have seen a much better selection of girls on the ANA flights of late. Much better than JAL, at least IMHO.

i was watching a special on TV--last summer, i believe--that ranked the most sought after jobs for men and women. at the top for women was, if i recall (which i may not), flight attendant for ANA.

but soon enough they'll all be dumpy, frumpy, angry, overweight, and middle aged....

le sigh.

[Coligny]

If I remember well, Cathay's girls were quite bonerworthy too, this and their 'open canteen'(*) policy made the flight nearly enjoyabul...

(*) Basically at the start of the flight they made an anoucement that aside for the scheduled lunch and diner that would be served at your seat, everything else was freely available anytime in the galley...

Since we were on the topic of the awesome service from Cathay pacific...

NOW WITH BLOW JOBS !:



Warning, link contains peepee parts picshures.

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2011/08/08/cathay-pacific-sex-leak-no-wonder-its-called-a-cockpit/

[Russell]

Vietnam airline fined for in-flight bikini show



An airline in Vietnam has been fined for an in-flight bikini dance show that featured beauty queens strutting their stuff in the aircraft's aisle.

VietJet Air, a low-cost carrier of Vietnam, says it staged the event to help celebrate its Aug. 3 inaugural flight between Ho Chi Minh City and the tourist center of Nha Trang, according to Australia's News.com.au.

The Associated Press offers a colorful description, writing: "A YouTube video shows young women in open vests and red bikini tops gyrating in the aisle as gleeful male passengers snap photographs on the VietJet Air flight."

News.com.au says the "Hawaiian-themed" dance lasted about three minutes and featured five women who all are contestants in a local beauty pageant. The video shows passengers taking video of the dance. Later, dancers come down the aisle to mingle with passengers at their seats.

"It was the first flight to a beach town, so we came up with the idea of getting a number of girls in bikinis to dance and make passengers happy to improve our customer service," a VietJet Air official was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail of London.

The show didn't go over well with Vietnamese regulators, however. Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) fined the airline 20 million Vietnamese dong – or about $960.

"They should have registered [with us] before they held the show," Nguyen Trong Thang, chief inspector of the agency, is quoted as saying by news24 of Australia. "This is the first time an airline has organized a bikini dance aboard a flight in Vietnam."

He added to AFP that the show "violated local aviation regulations" by putting together "an unapproved show on a flight."

However, despite the CAAV chief's comments, Business Traveller magazine writes "it's not the first time the carrier has organized a dance event on one of its flights."

Indeed, Business Traveller posts an video (dated January 2012) of VietJet Air crew doing a loosely choreographed dance performance on another flight. That, the magazine writes, suggests "the scantily-clad nature of this latest event has proved the biggest issue for Vietnamese authorities."

As for VietJet Air, the carrier launched service just this past December, becoming one of the first private airlines to begin flying in Vietnam.

[Tsuru]

960 bucks for all this publicity... the marketing department must have been laughing their balls off.

[matsuki]

960 bucks for all this publicity... the marketing department must have been laughing their balls off.