Did this turn into 'Hero of the Day' thread? Awesome!

The woman screaming at the gate agent in Key West because she waited for the very last flight from EYW to MIA for a JFK connection. When our lovely ATR had a maintenance issue they had to send another down and this woman was screaming how she is now going to miss her wedding. Who waits for the last flight the day before their wedding?

Then she went ballistic again when every single airline from MIA, FLL, TPA, MCO, and Jax all had oversold flights and there were no seats available.

I really don't know how the gate agent put up with it. I had leave for fear of laughing too hard.

Hmmm, where to file this one? The height or hubris or stupidity??

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True that. What was it that Steve Martin said about rounding:

“If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a slice of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got a million bucks and you spend 29 cents on a slice of bread, you've still got a million bucks. There's a math lesson for you.”

And he didn't come remotely close to bringing 940k (plus all his other compensation) in value to a fake ACMI provider rolling in guaranteed profits. He was just along for the ride and got richly over rewarded simply for being there.

Yeah it was novel when it was new but now everyone from legacy to so called LCC to regional all seem to do it from time to time.

I think the best thing we can do is to make as few PA's as possible other than those required and the very few others generally appreciated like holding but even then only when its going to make you late. One turn while you're projected to be 35 minutes early does not qualify for a PA.

Our FA's and even gate agents already spam the poor pax and that's after they've endured the audibile shellacking in the concourse. The vast majority of the time the best PA we can give is no PA at all.

Any pax that thinks they are entitled to get any other airline to automatically "honor their ticket" from another airline. Tool of the day.

I had a Capt who briefed the entire electrical fire checklist(s) including everyones responsibilities - every F/A change...Really?

At my last outfit, I had a guy lecture me for 4 days about how vaccines were poison.

It took all my will not to laugh him out of the cockpit...but I tried to be a "good guy", and hopefully save one of his kids from having something bad happen.

I have a degree in molecular biology, but no amount of careful explanation on how things really work seemed to phase him in the slightest.

I've come to realize that most people are drama queens, in some form or another, and will latch on to anything, no matter how foolish it makes them look, to further that.

Nu