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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: right way right

I knoweth of valve troubles some myself.

The venerable 65 has some flaky action with #1 valve but I can live with it. At most it’s a slight miss.

The other one will need a reman engine and that will be shop job.

I’m at the point with everything here, especially some nagging health problems where I will buy the parts and when I can write the check, pay a pro unless it is something low level.


81 posted on 08/16/2016 4:03:11 AM 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: Red Badger

I was taken aback at the difficulty he had with clutch/throttle coordination. He’s a coordinated guy. All I can figure is that a decade of video game car shifting locked in his brain as THE way to drive a stick. He was OK after a while. Clutch plate survived.


82 posted on 08/16/2016 4:04:48 AM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough)
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To: Rebelbase
"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."

When I was in college, 50 years ago, I made a clock that ran backward (I reversed the magnetic damper on the motor). I also made a wooden box for it, with no markings on the dial. So, it had no numbers, and also ran backward. It was the only clock I used in my room.

83 posted on 08/16/2016 5:13:37 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: gaijin
Sorry, feminism has ruined the looks of our in-air women

I assumed it was simply that career flight attendants aged in their jobs, just like the rest of us.

-PJ

84 posted on 08/16/2016 5:49:47 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.From Foxnews, May 31,)
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To: napscoordinator

How is asking people not to be dickheads to waiters a liberal stance? Class shows.


85 posted on 08/16/2016 5:52:57 AM PDT by Scarpetta
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To: polymuser

I had to teach myself how to drive a stick.
When I was 18, I was left to take a friend’s car back to his house after he left for a trip, not realizing it was a stick until he had left and I was all by myself with the car.

Luckily, I had a quiet residential neighborhood to practice in. It took me about 10 minutes of trial and error to get it together, clutch and accelerator and shifter, and I never had a problem since, and that was 1973................


86 posted on 08/16/2016 6:13:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

Clothes make the man....................


87 posted on 08/16/2016 6:15:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: Rebelbase
Put up one of these:


88 posted on 08/16/2016 6:35:31 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: elcid1970

LOL! Good thing he said that back in 1991 while we still had a first amendment. Today, he would probably be dismissed from his job and charged with a hate crime for using the f— word.


89 posted on 08/16/2016 7:04:58 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Organic Panic

Sticking your nose in a book at age 60, because you are on your first every flight and hate heights! Hubby had to explain each noise the plane made, didn’t help we had an ER divert, and turbulence.


90 posted on 08/16/2016 7:39:07 AM PDT by GailA (If politicians won't keep their promises to the Military, they won't keep them to you!)
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To: dfwgator

Steve Martin is great, but he is so much better when he plays the straight man.


91 posted on 08/16/2016 7:43:24 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Vigilanteman

What she learned at the interview was that airlines actually prefer gays and for reasons you wouldn’t believe.

...

The travel industry is dominated by gays. I know of one lawsuit where an airline was sued for discrimination against hetero employees. The heteros won.


92 posted on 08/16/2016 7:47:51 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Red Badger
"Clothes make the man"

Indeed they do. If you look and act like a bum that is how you will be treated.

93 posted on 08/16/2016 8:12:54 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: napscoordinator

Had one (MILL)yesterday saying that all Baby Boomers were Socialists because they collect SS and Medicare. Also the cause of all his problems. He had worked for the Gov, could not get a job, never learned a trade, it was evident he had never taken any hard sciences..It was all the BBrs fault..


94 posted on 08/16/2016 8:26:02 AM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (MECCA and Medina, the SNAKE HEAD..)
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To: napscoordinator

Congrats for the stupidist post I have seen at FR in while. You are a jackass! Go ahead and behave like a jackass with the hired help BUT why say this here? So you are a double jackass.


95 posted on 08/16/2016 10:51:07 AM PDT by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I bring a book. Partly because I’m anti-social, and partly because one should always be in the middle of a book and have it around for when nothing is happening.


96 posted on 08/16/2016 10:53:03 AM PDT by discostu (If you need to load or unload go to the white zone, you'll love it, it's a way of life)
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To: dennisw

I stand by the truth.


97 posted on 08/16/2016 11:11:37 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: wally_bert

I learned before, Synchros.
Double clutching, anyone? ;^}


98 posted on 08/16/2016 11:48:57 AM PDT by GOYAKLA ( Pick-up the pace, I'm eighty!)
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To: Iron Munro

what happens when the “in air women” can be replaced with pretty female androids?


99 posted on 08/17/2016 10:22:03 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: longtermmemmory
what happens when the “in air women” can be replaced with pretty female androids?

Stepford Stews?

Movie: The Stepford Wives (1975)

100 posted on 08/17/2016 12:05:43 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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