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Plastic bags are only onboard bathroom, pilots say
The Associated Press ^
| September 3rd 2009
| Travis Reed
Posted on 09/07/2009 11:04:24 PM PDT by ozguy
MIAMI Flying a Boeing 727 around the world might sound like a dream. But pilots for a Florida air cargo company claim their job is a nightmare that includes no sick pay, shrinking wages and no place to use the bathroom on flights but a plastic bag.
Sixty-two pilots and flight engineers for Fort Lauderdale-based Amerijet International Inc. went on strike on Aug. 27. Among their demands is flushable toilets on board. Their union has been trying to negotiate a new contract the past five years.
Its Florida workers say they're suffering. On the picket line in heavy rain Thursday, pilot Dawn Leschinski held up an 18-inch green plastic bag.
"This is actually the bathroom that we're expected to use on Amerijet airplanes," she said.
Because full bags can't be easily discarded, they accumulate on longer flights, leaving a heavy stench.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: amerijet; pilot; strike
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posted on
09/07/2009 11:04:25 PM PDT
by
ozguy
To: ozguy
A piss-poor way to run an airline.
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posted on
09/07/2009 11:05:54 PM PDT
by
umgud
(Look to gov't to solve your everday problems and they'll control your everday life.)
To: ozguy
Because full bags can't be easily discarded, they accumulate on longer flights, leaving a heavy stench. I'm going to name my next metal band "Heavy Stench!"
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posted on
09/07/2009 11:06:59 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: ozguy
No Toilets?
That’s a bunch of ***t!
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posted on
09/07/2009 11:10:32 PM PDT
by
lmr
(God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
To: ozguy
Someone is still flying 727s? Wow! I suppose there are still 707s around somewhere, too...
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posted on
09/07/2009 11:11:16 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I will raise $1 million for Sarah Palin if she runs; What will you do?)
To: ozguy
For once I actually agree with strikers. It might just be the first time.
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posted on
09/07/2009 11:13:13 PM PDT
by
sig226
(Real power is not the ability to destroy an enemy. It is the willingness to do it.)
To: umgud; fieldmarshaldj; rabscuttle385; Clintonfatigued; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA
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posted on
09/07/2009 11:14:30 PM PDT
by
Impy
(RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Someone is still flying 727s? Wow! I suppose there are still 707s around somewhere, too...It's a cargo airline. Do you think that they really need the latest 787 Dreamliner to ship cargo around? Hell, FedEx Express is still using 727s, DC-10s, and MD-10s, according to Wikipedia.
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posted on
09/07/2009 11:19:14 PM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
(So many Communists, so little time.)
To: ozguy
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posted on
09/07/2009 11:21:59 PM PDT
by
Bobalu
(I AM JIM THOMPSON)
To: ozguy
Flying a Boeing 727 around the world might sound like a dream.Flying a Boeing 727 around the world sounds like anything but a dream.
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posted on
09/07/2009 11:44:49 PM PDT
by
xjcsa
(And these three remain: change, hope and government. But the greatest of these is government.)
To: ozguy
But pilots for a Florida air cargo company claim their job is a nightmare that includes no sick pay, shrinking wages and no place to use the bathroom on flights
Pilots need to understand, like most everyone else in the private sector, their wages, benefits, pensions and job security are being downsized, while they'll be forced to pay more taxes, so that tens of thousands of government employees can retire at 50 years old, with those lottery style, tax paid government pensions.
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posted on
09/07/2009 11:47:08 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
To: ozguy
Because full bags can't be easily discarded, they accumulate on longer flights, leaving a heavy stench.Just open the back door and drop 'em out. Cripes. Do I have to do everything around here?
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posted on
09/07/2009 11:51:09 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Want to work? Don't join a union. Want to make money and not work? Join a union.)
To: rabscuttle385
John Travolta's home... with planes! His son Jett was killed in an accident.
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posted on
09/07/2009 11:51:25 PM PDT
by
WVKayaker
(Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -Arthur C Clarke)
To: ozguy
I am happy to say that I have never seen the inside of an airplane bathroom, despite 10 years on numerous international flights, many were Mwemphis to Amsterdam, but also Japan to Seattle, Sao Paulo to New your, that was my hardest to control, and my flights from Vienna to Cebu, but that flight has a break in Doha, Qatar.
Keep in mind, I drink wine during the onboard meal time, and prior to boarding, I have a beer or two, and go to the restroom just before to boarding.
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posted on
09/07/2009 11:55:36 PM PDT
by
AlexW
(Now in the Philippines . Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
To: AlexW
Wow, that is unbelievable!
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posted on
09/08/2009 12:24:55 AM PDT
by
rawhide
To: WVKayaker
The accident was the drowning because he had a seizure in the bath-tub.
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posted on
09/08/2009 12:29:31 AM PDT
by
OldSpice
To: rawhide
“Wow, that is unbelievable!”
I think it is known as willpower :))
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posted on
09/08/2009 12:35:44 AM PDT
by
AlexW
(Now in the Philippines . Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
To: ozguy
Can you clarify for me. Is there a bathroom on the plane?
image is sarcasm
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posted on
09/08/2009 12:38:44 AM PDT
by
Global2010
(Strange We Can Believe In)
To: WVKayaker
Ask John, he’ll tell you—capitalism sucks.
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posted on
09/08/2009 12:39:51 AM PDT
by
riri
(http://rationaljingo.blogspot.com/)
To: VeniVidiVici
“Just open the back door and drop ‘em out. Cripes. Do I have to do everything around here? ‘
And one lands on your head, hahaha
Anyway, bad idea, unless maybe over the ocean.
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posted on
09/08/2009 12:41:07 AM PDT
by
AlexW
(Now in the Philippines . Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
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