Do You Remember

[Chicken or Beef??]

Cans of sodas clearing off the beverage cart during takeoff from SNA
DC9 cart with no breaks – we would use coffee cups as a wedge
Hot Towels and Mints in coach
Golden sun service – and saving the orange juice, since the only fruit juice we offered was Apple Juice. (Ok and saving the VERY cheep wine for the layovers)
Coke, Diet Coke, Pepsi, Diet Pepsi
Pushing the DC9 cockpit door closed with your palm and getting pinched in the hinge. (You only did that once)
Explaining to passengers in row 22 on the nine why they didn’t have a window oh, and no recline in the seat.
Hitting your head on the overheads on the MD80
Driving to the Bel-Aire for the ERI layover.
Sneaking to the safe in DCA so that scheduling wouldn’t see you and being busted and LEVELED.

 

[USCREW]

LEVELED: I hadn't heard that word forever.

How about spreading out magazines on that sorta table on the 727?

Carrying beepers that only displayed numbers?

Lugging around a huge brick Motorola cell phone complete with zippered pouch?

 

[N965VJ]

Leveling yourself.

Passing sick.

Submitting paper claims in duplicate for everything. You’ve got 4:25 for the day. Do you bother filling out two pieces of paper for five minutes pay for a 4:30 min day?

4:30 min days.

Carrying a little touch-tone dialer from Radio Shack so you could access the menu system on the Crew Sched 800 line. There were plenty of old school rotary phones back then in the rust belt.

Flight plans written out by hand.

Getting scalped at the 1L door when deadheading on an F-28.

Being “On Centralâ€￾ and invoking the magic of Ohio Bell Call Forwarding.

 

[FlyDeMetrius]

-working full LGA-PBI flights during the holidays. UGH!



OMG, that last one just brought back a nightmare I'm suprised I had forgotten about. Working an MD-80 LGA-PBI right after they took the staffing down to 3 F/A's or being understaffed for the Holiday can't remember which. Easter Sunday, oversold in coach, hot meal in both cabins, 87 special meals, 18 wheelchairs, and about 20-25 checked strollers and car seats. 😱 Nearly ran out of plastic cups during boarding because EVERYBODY had to have "just a little bit of water to take a pill". Too bad back then most of us didn't belong to the "Valley of the Dolls" crowd because we needed pills too. Left the gate late because of being overweight, took fuel off, some bags off, all while the "SHADY PINES" crowd watched and announced to the entire cabin that every bag being pulled off was their personal bag with ALL of their medication in it! Oy Vey! The meal service took literally 3 hours to do, because out of the 87 people who ordered special meals only 1 knew about it! HA! Push/Pull with only 2 F/A's working coach with the plane being about 3 football fields long, the beverage/meal cart moved about 2 rows every 20 minutes! We both began to twitch after about 5 rows of EVERY passenger getting tomato juice, water "NO ICE!" and coffee! I just wanted to lock myself in the bathroom and cry! After we landed, it took us another 45 mins to get all the wheelchairs off, not to mention the ramp having to use the catering truck pulled up to the 1R door to pass thru all of the car seats and strollers! What a circus that was! I'm still getting chills thinking about it! Needless to say, there were cocktails flowing that night in the hotel bar!

Remember This Pairing on the 737-300
Day 1 PHL-MCO-LGA-PBI
Day 2 PBI-LGA-PBI-LGA
DAY 3 LGA-PBI-LGA-PBI
Day 4 PBI-LGA-PIT-PHL

Excuse Me Doll, I ready to give you my order"

I want "Coffee Regular", Tomato Juice, Orange Juice, and I need a bottle of Waawter.

 

[beachboy]

You have not been christened as a F/A until you have flown one of those. Slit my wrists just thinking about it. I would rather jump headfirst off the Empire State Bld. into a thumb tack.

 

[Travelpro72]

I remember snapping the USA Today open years ago to find that EVERY airline collectively had rated LGA-PBI "THE" worst flight to work followed by JFK-LAX. I'd like to say it was around 99 or 2000 that the article was printed. Those flights were horrible. Not as demanding but serving hot meals on the F-100 from PIT-MSY in the winter was no picnic. The aft closet with all our stuff had to be filled with meals along with the compartment in the galley that had all the water,snacks etc. What a dream..... 🙄

 

[USstew23]

Hitting your head on the overheads on the MD80

Oh yes and I think I still have the scar on my head to prove it. Handing the drinks to A and C and bashed my head into the overhead and ended up on my back across D, E, and F with blood running down my forehead into my eye. God I loved that plane!!

 

[USstew23]

Excuse Me Doll, I ready to give you my order"

I want "Coffee Regular", Tomato Juice, Orange Juice, and I need a bottle of Waawter.

I always had this overwhelming urge to reply "Yes, and I want to give you 5 right across your lips!!!!!!!!"

 

[EMBFA]

In that scenario, I make the drinks, give them to them and move on. When they yell that they were skipped I say "OH! I thought she was ordering for the whole row! You're not going to drink all of that yourself are you? Wow! Well here's a trash bag you can put all of that trash in when you're done, ring the bell and we'll come get it."

 

[cwa037]

FLIGHT 1812

PIT
AUS
SAT
AUS
PIT


PWM-BOS BEECHCRAFT SERVICE ABOUT 10 TIMES A DAY

LOADING A F-28

IDEAS THAT FLY

BUSINESS SELECT TRAINING IN BWI

LOTS OF FLIGHTS IN BWI FOR THAT MATTER

 

[YVINTERN]

Oh c'mon PBI flights aren't that bad as long as you're on something...

 

[ggiby]

Leveling yourself.

Passing sick.

Submitting paper claims in duplicate for everything. You’ve got 4:25 for the day. Do you bother filling out two pieces of paper for five minutes pay for a 4:30 min day?

4:30 min days.

Carrying a little touch-tone dialer from Radio Shack so you could access the menu system on the Crew Sched 800 line. There were plenty of old school rotary phones back then in the rust belt.

Flight plans written out by hand.

Getting scalped at the 1L door when deadheading on an F-28.

Being “On Centralâ€￾ and invoking the magic of Ohio Bell Call Forwarding.

4:30 min days.... those were a big improvement....

I come from the old PI days.... and 4:00 was our Min.... so the merger w/ US was a welcome...
we even got a raise.... and 4:30 min....

LOL

 

[ggiby]

PI238 ATL-LWB 73S -- that operated for all of the 1980s.

PI entering the PIT market with two ROA nonstops!

INT-GSO/TRI early morning mainline flights

GSO/TRI- INT late evening mainline flights

ROA maintenance hangar

GSO's largest sign in the state of NC

The Nancy Davis Pacemaker

727-100s

the retirement of the YS-11s

the 767 in TPA

F28 and 733/734 familiarization flights

N9049U that never was reregistered with a PI registration

Smokehouse Almonds in the square foil packs

Snacks on small plastic trays wrapped in saran to pass out on short flights

N838N Mount Mitchell Pacemaker - -the D B Cooper plane

U my friend.... are most likely someone from My Past!!

I talk about the db cooper aeroplane alot and noone believe's me...

it was a 727..100..... Pi a/c..

we got it from n/w....

when db cooper jumped he carved his initials on the back door and was gone...!!

Pi got the airplane and put a plac over his carving.... .... I think.... if my memory serves me

it was the PI Airline of the airline of the year award ...was it not????

wow...

that is the best blast from the past for me.... it surpasses the PI punch...

the other blast was our base manager from ROA....... may he rest in peace....

 

[USstew23]

Saying goodbye to the DC-9.

 

[flyJOE]

I remember the last 727 departure from PHL, going to PIT. I'm not 100% sure if it was the last revenue 727 flight. The 727's still operated for the Shuttle for a few more years, but it wasn't the same.


I always loved sitting on the left side of the a/c landing at old PIT on 28R and seeing the whole airport pass by at few hundred feet away. Then the bad was after landing you had the 15-20 minute taxi to the gate.