American isn't laughing about training video

[FA Mikey]

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Something special in the air: an amusing American Airlines training video in which a Miami-based flight attendant demonstrates his techniques for getting even with passengers who ticked him off.

A 7-minute, 40-second clip from the 20-minute video is now at the center of a federal copyright infringement case.

The mystery uploader is Gailen David, 38, of Coconut Grove, who has flown for AA for 19 years. David says the airline paid him to write the script for the video, based on his transformation from angry air steward to upbeat employee. David also co-stars in the video.

 

[Nor'Easta]

Wow, that is unbelievable! Do you have a link to the actual video?

 

[MOUNT KISCO]

[quote name='Nor'Easta' post='362408' date='Mar 12 2006, 08:28 PM']Wow, that is unbelievable! Do you have a link to the actual video?[/quote]

Watched the video, funny but,nothing new here. The entire airline industry is trashed. Passenger wants Champagne service at Beer Prices.

The genie is out of the bottle, and he's not going back in.

More concessions ahead.

Time to move on.

Yada, yada, yada.

 

[s80dude]

Watched the video, funny but,nothing new here. The entire airline industry is trashed. Passenger wants Champagne service at Beer Prices.

The genie is out of the bottle, and he's not going back in.

More concessions ahead.

Time to move on.

Yada, yada, yada.

I went to one of these We Know Why You Fly forums and saw this guys presentation and a few others. I guess it is nice that he is trying to change employee attitude, but I felt for the most part the presentations were a little unrealistic and not worth the trip removals these employees are getting to travel from base to base and do this. They should call it, "We Know Why You Don't Fly" because they are not on the line anymore since they are trying to tell us how to be nicer.

One presentation in particular was a little off base. This JFK flight attendant was upset with his job because he was at IOR at the time and could only hold weekends to Paris. Lot of introspection, a transfer, yadda yadda yadda, and now he is flying Japan out of New York, and he wants us to keep our attitudes up by remembering how noble we are.....

Come to my base and fly five legs a day on the Super 80 and see how noble you are....

 

[Borescope]

Come to my base and fly five legs a day on the Super 80 and see how noble you are....

Come to SWA and fly seven or eight legs a day on the "Super 73" and see how noble you are............. And you don't have to justify how your job is different. We all know (beside the safty aspect) you walk down the aisle with the bev cart, then pick up, then run the cart again. After this we all know where we can find you...........sitting on you jump seat (this creates spread) or standing in the galley. But then again I guess that is a humbling experience.

 

[corl737]

Come to SWA and fly seven or eight legs a day on the "Super 73" and see how noble you are....

Come on now, be nice!

The AA and SWA operational plans are different and thus they ask their employees to perform different tasks. AA's MD80 crews simply don't have the opportunity to do frequent short haul nearly as often (AA folks can correct me but I don't think they fly between any two cities with near the frequency of SWA's DAL-HOU run of 29 flights/day each way!)

When the Wright Amendment goes away SWA crews (especially those in Dallas) may not be so over-tasked with the short haul. A Baltimore crew could be scheduled to fly BWI-HOU-DAL-LAX thus injecting an intra-Texas leg between a couple of longer stage lengths. Much nicer from a crew workload and morale standpoint.

 

[s80dude]

Come to SWA and fly seven or eight legs a day on the "Super 73" and see how noble you are............. And you don't have to justify how your job is different. We all know (beside the safty aspect) you walk down the aisle with the bev cart, then pick up, then run the cart again. After this we all know where we can find you...........sitting on you jump seat (this creates spread) or standing in the galley. But then again I guess that is a humbling experience.

I was simply sharing an opinion of this "We Know Why You Fly" forum that I attended. The flight attendant presenting was enouraging us to embrace how noble our jobs are, like he has started doing now that he flies nothing by long haul international. I simply felt that his presentation was a bit out of line given what the majority of AA flight attendants hold and fly. I feel it is hard to be noble when the airline has removed almost all ammentities from our domestic fleet. Given that one of my immediate family members is a flight attendant for SWA, I am very well aware of your job and it not different at all. I was not trying to justify anything.

 

[scorpian]

I went to one of these We Know Why You Fly forums and saw this guys presentation and a few others. I guess it is nice that he is trying to change employee attitude, but I felt for the most part the presentations were a little unrealistic and not worth the trip removals these employees are getting to travel from base to base and do this. They should call it, "We Know Why You Don't Fly" because they are not on the line anymore since they are trying to tell us how to be nicer.
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Not to worry we at the maintenance bases have mechanics that have made a career out of being professional committee jumpers. Every time a new program starts up you can always expect the same short list of suspects to be there. Beats doing what you were hired to do from their view one can assume!!!!!!!!