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"SIR, YOU NEED TO SIT DOWN RIGHT NOW!"

By The Flying Pinto

Check out this post from Lucky’s blog, “One Mile at a Time” over at the boardingarea.com, he is a college student who flies over 200k a year, I love his perspective on flying and this one gos along with Wednesday’s Q&A…also check out part one of this eventful flight…”passenger pisses off Flight Attendant, no really!” […]

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BRING BACK THE STEWARDESSES

By The Flying Pinto

I came across this post last night and I just had to share it with all my insightful, intelligent, supportive readers. I left the first comment and then linked it to twitter as a result he ended up with more Flight Attendant comments than he probably wanted! It got such a huge response I thought […]

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WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW….WEDNESDAY

By The Flying Pinto

This weeks question comes from Mark Lawrence: “What is the most ridiculous excuse you have heard from a person who just could not stay seated?“This one stumped me because I’ve heard all the “regular” excuses…have to go to the bathroom really bad, back aches, recent leg surgery etc…but nothing really ridiculous, so I called on […]

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Facebook has a Flight Attendant Group and I found this list on their site, “Flight Attendants make the best partners (bf/gf/wife/husband/spouse/defecto..whatever..)because…“ Here are a few of my favorites: “Because we can set up for a party in a half an hour, make airline reservations inside of twenty minutes, cater an affair for 30 out of […]

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LEAVE A LIGHTER FOOTPRINT

By The Flying Pinto

Travel Green A guest post by Deborah at www.puremothers.comSchool is out and summer vacations are calling. Some will stay close to home, some will travel by car and others will take to the blue skies in search of some well-deserved R & R. If you want to take your green way of living with you […]

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INSIDE THE LIFE OF A FLIGHT ATTENDANT

By The Flying Pinto

By Dan Pimentel: “For as long as there have been commercial airliners hauling passengers to Grandma’s house, there have been members of that flight’s crew managing the cabin, serving meals and refreshments and soothing the jitters of scared flyers. Long ago when big airliners still had propellers, they were called “Stewardesses” or even the less […]

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We made it home, and I am happy to report our trip back went smoother than the flight up. We gave ourselves plenty of time…enough time to enjoy Legal Seafood’s Crab Bisque at the airport…only to find out, it is seasonal: ( So, everything but the Bisque worked out. We had 3 seats together and […]

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I’M BACK….

By The Flying Pinto

Posting will resume tonight after Lucy gos to sleep; ) Here she is sitting in the FOs seat before our flight home. The Captain was so nice and when he asked her what she thought about flying she took her shoe off to show him her “pink” toes!

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IF I’M NOT HERE….I’M AT THE BEACH

By The Flying Pinto

No WiFi…be back Thursday: )

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VACATION: DAY ONE

By The Flying Pinto

4am: wake up to get ready for a 7:25am departure 6:26: leave for airport…yes, extremely late. 6:45: arrive at The Parking Spot…yes, we live that close to the airport. 7:00: arrive at the airport….very long line at security…not looking good. 7:05: explain to gate agent that we’re late…we’re checked in…but printer didn’t work so we […]

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