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06-17-2025 | 09:10 AM
#1131
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Dec 2007
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From: Window seat
He'd j/s over to Bangkok for....hmmmm....yes. Once he was in Athens and going to BKK. Simple, get to FRA and then do FRA-BKK. Oh no...that had an ID90 charge. He could jumpseat, for free, FRA-MSP-NRT-BKK to save the FRA-BKK ID90 charges.
Funny part was another FO said he was going to go to BKK with FO Cheapskate. Cheapskate was after cheap.....yes.... in BKK. The other FO wasn't into girls. That really had us confused. Talk about the odd couple.
06-17-2025 | 03:36 PM
#1132
Prime Minister/Moderator
Joined: Jan 2006
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From: Engines Turn or People Swim
We had a 767 FO with years at the airline living on $1000 a month back in the late 1990's. Saving like crazy. Wanted to get $1 million in the market/bank. "I made it so fast (easy?) that I'm going for $2 million." He lived in a crash pad near JFK and had no car. Short of money at the end of the month? He'd jumpseat on NW's w/b's to MSP for lunch and back for dinner. Big plus was he was really into Asian women so he was on the prowl with the NW F/A's while jumpseating.
He'd j/s over to Bangkok for....hmmmm....yes. Once he was in Athens and going to BKK. Simple, get to FRA and then do FRA-BKK. Oh no...that had an ID90 charge. He could jumpseat, for free, FRA-MSP-NRT-BKK to save the FRA-BKK ID90 charges.
Funny part was another FO said he was going to go to BKK with FO Cheapskate. Cheapskate was after cheap.....yes.... in BKK. The other FO wasn't into girls. That really had us confused. Talk about the odd couple.
He'd j/s over to Bangkok for....hmmmm....yes. Once he was in Athens and going to BKK. Simple, get to FRA and then do FRA-BKK. Oh no...that had an ID90 charge. He could jumpseat, for free, FRA-MSP-NRT-BKK to save the FRA-BKK ID90 charges.
Funny part was another FO said he was going to go to BKK with FO Cheapskate. Cheapskate was after cheap.....yes.... in BKK. The other FO wasn't into girls. That really had us confused. Talk about the odd couple.
06-20-2025 | 08:24 AM
#1133
Line Holder
Joined: Mar 2025
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We had a 767 FO with years at the airline living on $1000 a month back in the late 1990's. Saving like crazy. Wanted to get $1 million in the market/bank. "I made it so fast (easy?) that I'm going for $2 million." He lived in a crash pad near JFK and had no car. Short of money at the end of the month? He'd jumpseat on NW's w/b's to MSP for lunch and back for dinner. Big plus was he was really into Asian women so he was on the prowl with the NW F/A's while jumpseating.
He'd j/s over to Bangkok for....hmmmm....yes. Once he was in Athens and going to BKK. Simple, get to FRA and then do FRA-BKK. Oh no...that had an ID90 charge. He could jumpseat, for free, FRA-MSP-NRT-BKK to save the FRA-BKK ID90 charges.
Funny part was another FO said he was going to go to BKK with FO Cheapskate. Cheapskate was after cheap.....yes.... in BKK. The other FO wasn't into girls. That really had us confused. Talk about the odd couple.
He'd j/s over to Bangkok for....hmmmm....yes. Once he was in Athens and going to BKK. Simple, get to FRA and then do FRA-BKK. Oh no...that had an ID90 charge. He could jumpseat, for free, FRA-MSP-NRT-BKK to save the FRA-BKK ID90 charges.
Funny part was another FO said he was going to go to BKK with FO Cheapskate. Cheapskate was after cheap.....yes.... in BKK. The other FO wasn't into girls. That really had us confused. Talk about the odd couple.
I've always found the losers that have to travel halfway across the world to get laid are some of the worst human beings around.
06-20-2025 | 09:09 AM
#1134
Line holder
Joined: Nov 2013
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From: Aircraft & Seat: old & hard
I had to travel halfway across the world to get laid for years, but I am sure my wife would be offended if I described my commute that way.
06-20-2025 | 10:59 AM
#1135
Living the SloBus life
Joined: Jan 2018
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Or maybe she’d see it as a massive compliment.
06-22-2025 | 04:56 PM
#1136
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Aug 2015
Posts: 2,630
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From: Guppy Gear Slinger
I remember a couple regional FO's back in the day, who were commuting to base to fly stand-ups (the junior lines). They couldn't or didn't want to afford crash pads, so when they finished their turn in the morning they'd nonrev on a transcon to the the other coast, get fed, and sleep in business or first. Then do the same on the return flight, and go back to work on arrival.
06-22-2025 | 06:26 PM
#1137
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Dec 2007
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From: Window seat
06-22-2025 | 06:28 PM
#1138
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From: Window seat
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