Posted on 04/02/2021 8:33:22 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
Edited on 04/02/2021 9:46:07 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A new real-time feedback, Delta Pulse, that was created by Delta Airlines with the hope of improving its service, but the feedback system has led to a number of abusive comments about flight attendants on the flight.
David includes other abusive messages received about the appearance of the airline’s flight attendants.
(Excerpt) Read more at thewinglet.boardingarea.com ...
I remember Dennis Miller’s rant from year’s ago:
And exactly when did stewardesses in this country get so
cranky? I know it’s a tough job — there’s got to be a thousand
different ways to tie that neckerchief, but why piss on me, huh? You
know, the worst thing about it is they don’t even come clean with you
and tell you how much they hate you. They treat you with that highly
contrived air of mock civility, that tight, pursed-lip grin where they
nod agreement with everything you say. You know right behind that
face plate they barely tolerate your very existence. I’d rather they
just come out in the open and say, “Hey, listen, ...hole: when I was
eighteen years old, I made a horrible vocational error, all right? I
turned in my entire adult life for cheap airfare to Barbados. Now
I’ve got hair with the tensile strength of Elsa Lanchester in ‘Bride
of Frankenstein.’ I haven’t met Mr. Right. I’m a waitress in a bad
restaurant at thirty thousand feet. Jam your Diet Slice up your _ss,
all right?” At least show me something. Come down the aisle like the
old broad in ‘From Russia with Love’ with the knife point coming out
of her shoe. “Peanuts, Mr. Bond?”
And yet the stews/FAs use passes themselves and for their families. Maybe a different attitude toward employees who are not flight crew, an upstairs/downstairs thing?
Pan Am.
However, they are “let go” at age 30. . .according to Maurice Flannigan (RIP), former CEO, they are let go to maintain beauty because they know beauty draws business travelers, AND when the stewardesses know they will be let go when they reach the age of 30, they work harder to be nice in the hope that they will snare some nice up and coming VP. . .
Back in the 80’s, Delta became woke. . .for a few years they only hired women pilots, passing over much more experienced male pilots. In a few cases, they hired a few women and trained then to fly, from private ticket to ATP.
Not the same seats either. I used to love the term “Fly Me”. Yes, it’s sexual innuendo - so what? Women like to look sexy and men like to look at sexy women. At least that was how it used to be in on a normal Planet.
Delta's flight attendants aren't unionized.
Ah for the good old days of the 1960s when stewardesses were hot!
“Coffee? Tea? Or me!”
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Well, for a lot of them, especially the older ones, they can fly basically whenever they want, pass on trips they don’t want to take, while
Not missing out on any pay or bennies.
And fly all over the world for nothing. Most times in 1st/business class.
Several years ago I had a red eye overnight flight from Honolulu to Atlanta on Delta. I’ve never slept well on flights but attempted to get some rest in my aisle seat. Without fail, every time I managed to doze off one of the obese flight attendents hips would brush my elbow or my face and wake me up. Never an apology of course. It was like a bizarre torture routine.
Singapore, Emirates, Qatar, KLM.....
Watching their flight crews strut through an airport is like watching models walk down a runway
Maybe so, but paying to be subjected to rude and awful treatment by ugly, fat stewardesses is a bit much.
Saw an American Airlines stewardess having to turn sideways to waddle down the aisle. Gawd. Saw another that needed help reaching bags in an overhead bin (too short).
I only fly business or first, treatment is great, but if you are in the back, gawd help you, those same stewardesses revert to type and become “nasty, brutish and short.”
Passengers don’t help the cause when they are a bunch of entitled whiners and come onboard dressed in their pajamas, headphone blasting thumpa-thumpa noise you can hear across the jet, or drag a screeching child onboard and allow such child to run wildly through the jet, bothering passengers and crew.
Was on a flight, family came onboard with three children. Two of them were constantly whining and crying (roughly under the age of 6 or 7), and fighting each other. Mother did nothing, kept her head in a book. The other child, roughly age 5 or so, ran up and down the aisles with dad in tow. She stopped stared at an older guy just sitting there and reading. . .the child stomped her foot and made faces, obviously trying to get his attention. Then the child SCREECHED as loud as she could!! This made the guy jump (and me too and everyone else). The dad was standing there and sad in a quiet calm voice “Now Amber, we don’t do that.” Nothing else, just that. No effort to contain this monster and no apology to everyone for this monsters behavior.
If anyone ever starts a true business traveler/retiree airline, with no one under the age of 21, I’m there.
I don’t think the flight attendants don’t have a union. Pilots do, though.
But rude and awful comments by ugly, fat male passengers is OK. Got it.
Delta is one of the worst run airlines I have ever had to work with. They hire incompetent minorities of all sorts and it shows.
We love you long time!
Ah, seniority. Such a wonderful concept. Which the best Asian airlines like Singapore, Thai, ANA, and Asiana don’t seem to care much about. Flying out there I’d ditch whatever US carrier I had to depart with ASAP and then enjoy the travel.
I remember him remarking also at some point that “They’re not turning them over like they used to”, regarding “seniority”.
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