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When millennials fly, they don't want to say hi
MarketWatch ^ | August 15, 2016 | Sushma Un

Posted on 08/15/2016 6:26:22 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff

Here’s one more group millennials are ignoring as they spend time glued to their smartphones — airline personnel.

About 61% of millennials admitted to hiding behind electronic devices in order to avoid interacting with airline staff, according to a survey market-research firm Mintel conducted among 2,000 adults. Beyond millennials, less than half of Generation X — those born roughly between 1965 and 1980 — say they avoid airline personnel, and less than 37% of baby boomers said so. Automated technology is increasingly replacing people for cost-savings and convenience, and few travelers still value the human touch in the process.

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TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: airlines; airplanes; flight; millennials; snowflakes; technology; trends
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To: polymuser

I taught my daughter in about five minutes! She was 16 at the time and picked it right up!........she’s 29 now with her own family..........


41 posted on 08/15/2016 7:08:42 PM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: gaijin
Sorry, feminism has ruined the looks of our in-air women, and the fact that the job is here more
heavily injected with SAFETY/SECURITY stuff means many of them are also complete B*TCHES, too.

The Way We Were


42 posted on 08/15/2016 7:08:59 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: TigersEye

If I had any idea of pharmacology, sure.

I’ll stick to peddling a little on Ebay, mediocre stock footage, little viewed youtube, and other odd jobs.

On paper I am making the most ever for my education and experience but after all said and done mandated rip-offs, my net is a little better than as a state employee several years ago.


43 posted on 08/15/2016 7:09:17 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: wally_bert

I just spit all over my tablet!.........


44 posted on 08/15/2016 7:10:15 PM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: norwaypinesavage

“How to keep your watch from being stolen by a millennial:
Buy one with an hour and a minute hand!......... “

When my youngest was in college 5 years ago one kid in his class had a blank dial, hands only watch. Another kid asked how he was able to tell the time.


45 posted on 08/15/2016 7:10:43 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Trump IS the revolution)
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To: Vigilanteman
airlines actually prefer gays

I won't take anything touched by a queer (hepatophobic)

Send written complaints to the airlines about the disease-ridden child-molesters. Inform them of the hundreds of weird diseases carried by the dirtmen.

46 posted on 08/15/2016 7:16:10 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs and RINOs......same thing.)
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To: wally_bert

LOL


47 posted on 08/15/2016 7:28:38 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: polymuser

“We must become one with the vehicle, son”


48 posted on 08/15/2016 7:29:45 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: polymuser

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/California-Carjacker-Thwarted-by-Confusion-Over-Stick-Shift-292019681.html

http://q13fox.com/2014/06/22/thieves-attempt-carjacking-but-cant-get-away-in-a-stick-shift/

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/02/houston-area-police-say-carjacking-thwarted-when-teens-didnt-know-how-to-drive.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/trio-would-be-mass-carjackers-thwarted-stick-shift-article-1.1582250


49 posted on 08/15/2016 7:29:46 PM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: right way right

Hah! Remember the choke button on the dash...pull it out to choke the carb?

The good old days...


50 posted on 08/15/2016 7:33:13 PM PDT by moovova
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To: gaijin

Which reminds me.

Years ago at CPAC I was in an Elevator with Four Gorgeous British Virgin Air Stewardesses and Tom Delay.

While I am 6’2”, Mr. Delay is much shorter and ended up with the more enjoyable view.

Best two minutes of the Conference.


51 posted on 08/15/2016 7:36:21 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary Clinton has killed FIVE* more People than Three Mile Island. *revised...)
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To: wally_bert
I wish my 21 YO son was into what your working on.
He is learning hard lessons right now, he bought an 05 Dodge Magnum RT with the Hemi.

Now, he is learning about repairing a very lucky engine that only partially dropped a valve seat on the way home from the lot.

(He ignored my advise on getting a buyer inspection at an independent shop)

Of course I have to teach him, it is an opportunity for him to finally get his hands dirty and learn something important about life...everything either takes time and skill or money, luck is just not to expect, and there is no App that fixes cars.

52 posted on 08/15/2016 7:36:32 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: Vigilanteman

In 1991 my wife & I were on a Continental flight where the male flight attendant was on the mike cutting up like Jay Leno. Really funny stuff, then an elderly lady asked him about all the time he had to spend away from his spouse.

“Ma’am, I’m not married.” So she pointed to the gold band on his left hand.

“Oh, that’s my “fag deflector”! There are a lot of fags in the airline industry; I’m single so I have to wear that. My girlfriend wants me to wear it for real!”


53 posted on 08/15/2016 7:37:23 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Oh, good grief. Why the Hell wouldn’t someone want to interact with flight attendants? I can see being on a bus and not wanting to interact with other passengers, but if the driver wanted to talk to me, I would listen.

Are they just afraid of interacting with people in general?


54 posted on 08/15/2016 7:37:31 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: right way right

Oh, the old carburetor. You had to stick a pencil in the butterfly valve to start the car.


55 posted on 08/15/2016 7:38:59 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: gaijin

I have flown on Polynesian Air, Japan Air, Malaysian Air, Korean Air and maybe some I can’t think of and I believe you have to be a model to be a stewardess on these airlines. I have seen pictures of the girls on the North Korean airlines and they are hot.


56 posted on 08/15/2016 7:39:47 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: moovova
and ‘feathering’ the pedal.
I'm 53 and I feel like such a curmudgeon, we need to remember that these millennial will probably pick our nursing homes.
57 posted on 08/15/2016 7:41:13 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: warsaw44

MALCOLM
The kids okay?

GRANT
Well, I didn’t ask. Why wouldn’t they be?

MALCOLM
Kids get scared.

GRANT
What’s to be scared about? It’s just a little hiccup in
the power.

MALCOLM
I didn’t say I was scared.

GRANT
I didn’t say you were scared.

MALCOLM
I know.

GRANT
Fine.


58 posted on 08/15/2016 7:41:47 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: napscoordinator

What an incredibly arrogant position you have on waiters and restaurants. Get off your damn phone and have some consideration for the poor slob trying to serve you and for the business trying to eke out a profit. Your attitude is why people think millennials are completely self-absorbed.


59 posted on 08/15/2016 7:43:02 PM PDT by Scarpetta
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To: moovova

Hell i had to hand crank my first car


60 posted on 08/15/2016 7:44:17 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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