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Originally Posted by PermaFo
...TOTD, the crew member who gave an awesome inflight passenger briefing to a very full cabin concerning eta, weather, gate info, etc. Well it was 0600 (0525 departure), still not quite dawn yet, and a 200nm flight, as in the weather isn't worth mentioning because it's exactly the same. Dude... let em sleep.
Every airline has them.
The "company men" who make it their life's mission to not only do everything "by the book", but to make a point of
demonstrating to you that they do everything by the book at every opportunity. These tools have every letter and punctuation mark of the FOM memorized; with the notable exception of the words "judgment" and "discretion".
(For example, the tool that tries to taxi a heavy airplane out of an alley on a 100-degree day on one engine, because "the book" [written by tools who never fly the line] says you're supposed to single-engine taxi.)
And at most airlines, there seems to be a greater number of these lemmings concentrated at certain domiciles.
So I'm riding in the back of a trans-con red-eye one night. Every time we would encounter so much as a ripple, Capt. Weenie would turn the seat belt sign on,
and make the obligatory announcement required by the FOM when manipulating the seat belt sign.
And as soon as it would smooth out again, he would turn the sign off, and then make
that obligatory announcement. He must have done this at least a half-dozen times during the flight.
On a (bleep)ing
red-eye!
(I won't say what carrier this was, but when I told the story to a buddy who flies for that company, he immediately responded, "'Must've been a Bubba from [a particular domicile].")
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