OMG that must be it! The oil and hydraulics being over serviced is the answer to the mystery us retards at Spirit have been trying to solve for years now. Thank you so very much Andy. We will pass that info on to our MX department and I’m sure these silly fume events will go away.

Forgive Andy, he must have been smelling some fumes in order to form that hypothesis.

Really? Go on avherald.com and search United. Inform yourself before making silly statements.

He never said it hasn’t happened he said it hasn’t made it way through the gossip line at UAL... which is 12000 pilots to our 2000 plus...that said it happens at all carriers all the time... and it is not exclusive to airbi...

Which is scary from a DH, nonrev, jumpseater, or pax point of view. Imagine riding offline and you know for sure you’re smelling an oil fume. FA blows you off, you politely ask her if you can speak on the inter phone to the pilots. She either says no or she says yes but the pilots blow you off bc they haven’t been educated on it. Now what?

I doubt many United pilots are aware of this issue. There hasn't been a word in either our company or union safety bulletins. And I doubt that United is the only airline where this topic has never been raised.

You only have one link to a United incident and that's dated 2011.

Dig in Andy, dig in!

There are aftermarket masks available on amazon... starting to see more and more guys with the stashed in they’re bags for just such an event. You’ll look like a moron and everyone else will throw a fit if the FAs blow you off... but think of the brain cells you’ll be saving

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If every passenger wanted to complain to the pilots in flight about the fumes they are smelling, all day long there would be nothing but diversions. Tell the whale next to you next time dont eat the burrito before flying.