Stories from the jump seat
05-12-2022, 01:08 PM
#372
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Originally Posted by Hedley
25% of the stress is getting to work, 75% is getting home.
05-13-2022, 06:31 PM
#373
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I jumpseated on a Spirit A320. The gate was hectic and all of a sudden the FO comes out of the jetbridge telling the gate agent she’d given him the release from the day before. They let me on, with about 20 open seats. I elect for the jumpseat because, Spirit. Once I’m in there I learn the plane had been overfueled by 10,000 pounds because of the wrong release. What?? So they send the fueler back to empty the truck so he can come defuel the Airbus. On his way back, he flips the fuel truck, spills fuel all over the ramp in Atlanta, and has to go to the hospital. Awaiting takeoff, the captain jetblasts a Delta 737 behind us with about 88% N2 to burn fuel. We proceed to fly ATL-ORD AT 17,000 feet, drop the gear over the lake for the downwind, and land AT MLW. Craziness.
05-14-2022, 08:21 PM
#374
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Originally Posted by symbian simian
Wasn't trying to correct you, the emphasis was more on the last part. Some people just want to be upset, and we should no go out of our way to settle them down.
05-18-2022, 12:50 PM
#375
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Originally Posted by BatFastard14
Not an actual story while riding the jumpseat but….
Flight I needed to catch to get back to training was full, so I ask for the jumpseat. There was another passenger on standby who was furious with this poor gate agent. She hears me ask the gate agent for the jump and get it. She asks what that is and I explain.
Go down and ask captain, he says yes I get on. Gate agent comes to grab the paperwork and told me that the standby passenger got ****ed at her because she let an “employee on over a paying customer instead” and that passengers should have access to the cockpit and FA jumpseats if the flight is full.
I cannot believe there are people like this out there.
Flight I needed to catch to get back to training was full, so I ask for the jumpseat. There was another passenger on standby who was furious with this poor gate agent. She hears me ask the gate agent for the jump and get it. She asks what that is and I explain.
Go down and ask captain, he says yes I get on. Gate agent comes to grab the paperwork and told me that the standby passenger got ****ed at her because she let an “employee on over a paying customer instead” and that passengers should have access to the cockpit and FA jumpseats if the flight is full.
I cannot believe there are people like this out there.
05-18-2022, 06:22 PM
#376
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Originally Posted by salukipilot
I jumpseated on a Spirit A320. The gate was hectic and all of a sudden the FO comes out of the jetbridge telling the gate agent she’d given him the release from the day before. They let me on, with about 20 open seats. I elect for the jumpseat because, Spirit. Once I’m in there I learn the plane had been overfueled by 10,000 pounds because of the wrong release. What?? So they send the fueler back to empty the truck so he can come defuel the Airbus. On his way back, he flips the fuel truck, spills fuel all over the ramp in Atlanta, and has to go to the hospital. Awaiting takeoff, the captain jetblasts a Delta 737 behind us with about 88% N2 to burn fuel. We proceed to fly ATL-ORD AT 17,000 feet, drop the gear over the lake for the downwind, and land AT MLW. Craziness.
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