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I couldn’t read “How do YOU keep it up?” by Ken from March 2, 2010, and “Response: Career Motivation” by Marty dated March 3, 2010 without making my own comment. One of the harshest lessons I have learned about airline life is that it is not the responsibility of the airline to motivate us or [...]
You would probably have be living under a rock if you weren’t familiar with services that truncate long URL’s into shorter, more manageable links. For those of you that don’t know what they are, they take a loooong URL and shorten them down to fewer characters so they can be more easily managed for dissemination [...]
On February 14th, Kevin Smith was boarded onto a Southwest Airlines flight only to be disembarked shortly afterwards because staff felt that that they couldn’t justify carrying somebody of such ample girth on a full flight. Flight attendants claimed his large size would impede on the comfort of other passengers, and they deemed him to [...]
” Imagine living your whole life not knowing you’re an ass!?”
Since Japan Airlines declared a humiliating bankruptcy in January, the national insult has had to deal with a huge run of problems, but a bunch of news websites reports that they’re just as concerned with a far more flattering issue; Japan Airlines flight attendant uniforms are being sold to the local sex industry after becoming [...]
This blog is in response to a post that Ken wrote yesterday. I can’t help but feel that his post was in part inspired by a telephone conversation I had with him a couple of days ago. It was one of those days where the politics of aviation simply got the better of me; and [...]
The Australian and The Sun are reporting on a series of photographs that shows British Airways cabin crew (and flight attendants from other airlines) in sexually suggestive and provocative poses. The images were likely taken by cabin crew with the innocent, naïve and vane purpose of plastering them over their various social networking sites (done [...]
This will be my last IT blog for a while … I’m going to return to Aviation shortly where I have a history of at least a modicum of success …
It was on our clothes, on our seats, on our faces and as we scrambled around playing spot the vomit we heard, “Oh excuse me, you’ve ah, you’ve got a chunk in your hair!”.
I have a confession to make. For some time now I’ve been indulging in an illicit, subversive, un-seemly behaviour – very much out of keeping with my persona and belief system as an IT hip type person (did I just use the word hip? Sorry, must be stress/guilt). I’ve been doing this despite having a [...]
At some point over the last few years, I have apparently encountered Perses, the ancient Greek God of destruction and have inherited his curse. Actually this is an imperfect syllogism, because while some of the things I touch these days certainly do turn to crap – they’re all basically computers. Unfortunately the Greeks seemed not [...]
At parties, one of the first questions I’m asked, once we’ve done the profession swapping process, is “How do you get used to the Jet Lag?” The answer is of course, you don’t, because you can’t. My airline is a new start up international operation, a subsidiary of an established domestic carrier. As such, while [...]
I’m an airline pilot, or at least, that’s my day job. Partly because of the nature of my profession, partly because of the nature of my work role (I’m a Check Captain and therefore I’m a slave to both the Aircraft and the Simulator, the airline schedule and the trainee pilot) – this involves a [...]
I’m really angry at myself today. Every now then then life brings past you the opportunity to step outside the box and do the right thing – sometimes this requires a little thinking, sometimes it requires to you step outside the group-think. Today I failed that test, and I’m disappointed and annoyed at myself. Let [...]
