I doubt this bro even lifts

 

 

Dulles is on his top lists of hated airports? This rookie has obviously never been to NY.

 

If I started a flamebait thread like this, I'd get points or suspended. But I guess it's ok for a mod...

...and I guess I'll see you all in two weeks for even saying this.

 

I actually think it was well written. He has better prose than 70% of the posters on this website. (Though I am sure his responses were edited). He tells the truth and I agree with a lot of what he says, even if it was a little too casual. I have read several pieces like this that were WAY worse and off the mark (i.e. that Reader's Digest piece a year or so ago).

I've certainly been asked, "Which route do you fly?" at least 20 times. It is annoying. I have to explain every time I don't have one which confounds people. I also rate airports based on food availability near the gate. I also like high ceilings, less claustrophobic.

And he's right, pilots are the worst offenders with the cell phones. Why else would I have seen at least three airlines include "Cell Phones - off" on Before Start/Pushback etc checklists?

Not sure why everyone is hating.

 

I enjoyed the article. I thought it had real-person sarcasm embedded into it and that made it readable. It's online, if I wanted to read a technical journal I would pick up the hardbook.

I think people are getting their panties in a wad because it de-glamourizes the jerb to the last bastion of ignorants: the passenger public. Wait, the job has incredibly underwhelming compensation AND is ordinary? Yeah, I can see the hate in having the benefit of the doubt taken from you. I know we're all professionals, but let's face it, you're not docking the ISS here for a living, it's a system monitoring jerb these days. Sometimes you wish something would start blinking just so you could stay awake and make yourself feel accomplished. Monitoring the invisible magenta light-rails of the sky for too little money and too little time at home? Not so much.

 

I've always been quite fond of Dulles actually.

 

It should be called "ask a moron."

 

Someone has been watching Netflix!