In Northwest Arkanasa XNA,

Pax: This plane is small!
Capt: It's bigger than your trailer

 

Maybe you are missing the point of the thread.

One time we got a call from a new flight attendant who hadn't worked on the ATR before. She called right after we started to taxi.

"Did you guys know the left propeller isn't spinning?"

 

took off out of JFK to fly to ORF i think

about 10 minutes after the 10000' check we get a call from the FA
"sorry to bug you but umm, which ocean is that out the window?"

I could barely contain myself while telling her it was the Atlantic, when I switched back to the cockpit I was laughing so hard I was crying, told the CA and he lost it too


...unbelievable

 

Sitting in the gate area waiting to Jump home on a 9E -200 flight once. As the plane pulled up a lady got out of her seat and went to the window and exclaimed "That best not be the plane, because they're getting a complaint from me. If that is the plane." She the proceeded to explain to the CSA that she would not be plane side checking her bag and wanted to know if Boeing manufactured the aircraft. When she was told it was Bombardier she flipped until the captain walked by and told her it was Canadian, she calmed down but not before telling the CSA that it was a 2 hour flight and she really expected a 747 on this trip... yes thats right a 747 for a 2 hour RJ flight... I **** you not.

Later on as I was boarding I overheard the boarding agent tell the CSA that she was being denied boarding because she refused to gate side check her bag.

 

wonder what she would have done when she was told that the twizzlers and trail mix was $3, and their would be no caviar and champagne...

 

Hey, she paid $59 bucks for that seat! Whaddya mean there's no free food, free drinks, free movie, free manicure, free.... free... free!!!!

 

I get far fewer PAX commenting about the size of the 402 than I did on the E-145. Maybe they're programmed to say stuff like from all the TV they watch. My cousin, a DL FA, has gotten the "ooh this plane is so small" comment on a 757!

Go figure.

 

Best one I've heard:

Pax sticks her head in the cockpit "Wow, you still need two pilots to fly one this small?!?"

Best reply I've heard:
Pax: This plane sure is small...
CA: If you think this is small, you should see my paycheck!

 

On the 1900 I used to get all sorts of stupid coments. I flew with one captain that was great though. When I had to adjust people's seating assingments for weight and balance and people would complain, he'd turn around and tell them "this thing's like a teeter totter. We have to make sure we balance the load correctly over the wing."

 

Sitting in the terminal as Lynx pulls up with a brand-spankin-new Q400, I overhear some redneck lean over to his honey and say:

"Aw man, we gotta ride in one of those old-arsed puddle jumpers".

His clothes were in a black garbage bag, if it helps the visuals out at all.