Do You Remember

[Non Rev]

Being on the delivery flight of PI's 1st 767 from Boeing Field

$99 Carolina Fares

PI punch w/Rum......yummmm

The Non Rev day trips to MSY.............drink, drank,drunk....... :blink:

Non Rev day trip anywhere for that matter, have not done one for yearssssssssss

Recognizing and building a rapport w/repeat customers, especially those with medical needs. My heart went out to them. St Jude's..etc

Flt 334 CLT, LYH, CHO, BWI..........mail flight from hell.

The days when about anybody could jumpseat, I had the opportunity twice. The DEN, BNA, CLT (727-100) filled up in BNA and I got to ride jumpseat. Another time July 5th, 1986(?) LGA-CLT, the Capt was a NYC native and pointed out all the landmarks, it was a beautiful, bright, clear day.

Seeing the cockpit leave the gate with people standing!!!

I took a call one day that REZ transferred to the coordinators office. PI had a marketing campaign one time called chair sale. It showed a row of 3 airplane seats. She wanted to buy the seats, at 1st I thought it was a joke, then I realized she wanted to but the seats to put in her house!!!! I tried to explain it but she got mad and said that was false advertising!!!

I was working the ramp when US began service to CLT. PI had the ramp contract in the early days. I was assigned to work the flight. A BAC111 packed full of bags.

Working the 1st flight to LAX and the debut of 1st class service, but the seats had not been converted, coach seating w/the middle seat empty and I think the hung a curtain to divide the "cabins". It was so festive at the gate all the big whigs, dignitaries, ribbon cutting, etc.

Ahhhh the old days 😀

 

[StewGuy86]

Red carnations in a glass vase on the PI F/C trays
McLean Stevenson doing PI TV commercials
The Up-and-Coming Airline
"Red box" and "Blue box" snacks
All-coach 727's and working with 2 bev. carts ... 1 from the front and 1 from the back. Work 'til you meet, unless the slackers on the other cart refused to work past the window exits
Ice cream sandwich stains on my mauve tie after a transcon service
Mauve ties :wacko:
Stacking aladdin trays in the aisle
EWR-CAE flights for $29 competing with People Express
Getting picked up by the hotel limo on the ramp by the jetway stairs in LAX
The Westin Bonaventure
ANY Westins
That one oddball 737-300 with no air vents in the PSU
Paper bag with a hot Krispy Kreme doughnut, cup of coffee & OJ outside your door on short CHA overnights
Walking across the ramp between B and C concourse in CLT
Walking across the ramp between concourses in PHL
Gates practically hidden in secret corners in the old PIT terminal
The "new" CLT F/A crewroom on B con
Literally signing in for your trip on a sheet in the crewroom
Smoking on the back jumpseat
Reading People magazine and sipping coffee on the jumpseat during takeoff
Female F/A's with their collars flipped up
Putting People First training
Goldfish
This sweet 767 4-day trip with 1 transcon per day that I was only able to pick up once:

• CLT-LAX
• LAX-BWI
• BWI-SFO
• SFO-CLT

Boarding video
Pre-departure juice in coach (swim upstream during boarding, pass out juice, deal with dupe seats, help with overhead luggage, spill juice, curse)
Ignoring pre-departure juice in the galley
Refusing to let caterers board pre-departure juice
The box of chocolates on my nightstand at Jumer's Castle Lodge in CMI
The bear in the lobby of Jumer's
The F/A "lounge" in the back of the 727
Transcon on the 727 with about half the necessary trash space in the back ("It's okay honey, just throw it in the lav for landing!")
CLT-LAX-CLT turns
GSO crew base getting all the good transcon trips
GSO F/As working the back of the 727 going down the aft airstairs at the end of a trip and walking directly to their car in the crew lot
ORF F/A's being known as Besaw's Beauties (and the crew base that did things "the right way")
Putting on your jacket and passing out mints just before landing on transcons
USAir begins with you
Mainline flights ATL-ROA, ATL-MYR, ATL-GSO
"You're all set up"
Popcorn crumbs in every seat and in the carpet after a flight from DAY
Holiday Inn Springfield on long EWR overnights
The DAY Airport Inn with those skinny twin beds
Eating at King's Barbeque on long ISO overnights (that's Kinston, folks)
Mainline flights to ISO
6 F/A's on the 757
R2-D2 (Tammie Faye) rear airstairs on the 737-200
Non-revs in the lavs and cockpit on oversold flights
The PI paisley uniform (may it rest in peace---forever)
Liquor kits with padlocks
Vodka martinis in the liquor tray
Crews showing their ID's and bypassing security
Sliding down the aisle on a F/C meal tray during takeoff on ferry flights

Sigh....I could do this all day. 🙂

 

[YVINTERN]

Sliding down the aisle on a F/C meal tray during takeoff on ferry flights

Sigh....I could do this all day. 🙂

I've done plane surfing on an ERJ145...Let's just say it's a bad idea once you hit the rear lav...big slam then you got a nasty bruise on your face as the other person behinds you slams into you slamming the wall again.

Oh that was fun 🙂 I miss Plane Surfing 🙂

 

[ggiby]

I've done plane surfing on an ERJ145...Let's just say it's a bad idea once you hit the rear lav...big slam then you got a nasty bruise on your face as the other person behinds you slams into you slamming the wall again.

Oh that was fun 🙂 I miss Plane Surfing 🙂

I did it the other day on a flight w/ no PAX..... a shuttle from LGA to DCA...... the trays we have no dont work to well.... :unsure:

Did you ever hide in the overhead bin????


Also ..... the Jumers.... oh what a great overnight..... I use to talk about the place being haunted the whole way to the hotel.... to scare
the people who had never been there.... then when we were signing in I would go ahead of the group and hide in the trunk in the hallway
out next to the elevator.... then when they came off of the elevator.... BOOOOO!!

it was great fun...

also remember the cows at the university???? w/ windows in there side...????

 

[YVINTERN]

I did it the other day on a flight w/ no PAX..... a shuttle from LGA to DCA...... the trays we have no dont work to well.... :unsure:

Did you ever hide in the overhead bin????


Also ..... the Jumers.... oh what a great overnight..... I use to talk about the place being haunted the whole way to the hotel.... to scare
the people who had never been there.... then when we were signing in I would go ahead of the group and hide in the trunk in the hallway
out next to the elevator.... then when they came off of the elevator.... BOOOOO!!

it was great fun...

also remember the cows at the university???? w/ windows in there side...????

There's an actual LGA-DCA shuttle that went out with ZERO passengers at all? what time was this? I gotta nonrev on one of those flights and no I've never tried to put myself into a bin, I'd totally love to 🙂

 

[skinvalve]

Do you remember! A time when CEO's and their bilker's didn't come around on an annual basis blaming the rank and file for the companies financial woe's?

 

[wopr21]

The anticipation and suspense of a big announcement.

What's it gunna be, what's it gunna be..

wopr21

 

[jimcfs]

What about Charter Connie .. What ever happened to her . 😀 😀 😀

Orioleman, I think I found her.

Daily Mail Article.


Video (not suitable for work)

 

[PA18]

Chicken Wings delivered from the Airways Hotel to the jetway

Delivering chicken wings to the ground staff at the next station on flights out of BUF. (The Airways phone number was actually on Dialnet, and employees from all over the system could phone in their orders.)

N838N Mount Mitchell Pacemaker - -the D B Cooper plane

N1639, the "Pee Dee Pacemaker", the very first 727-200 built (originally delivered as a Northeast Airlines "Yellowbird").

 

[ggiby]

Delivering chicken wings to the ground staff at the next station on flights out of BUF. (The Airways phone number was actually on Dialnet, and employees from all over the system could phone in their orders.)



N1639, the "Pee Dee Pacemaker", the very first 727-200 built (originally delivered as a Northeast Airlines "Yellowbird").

Man??? How did you pull that one out of the hat??? 😱

Ok then...???? If you know the tail number....???? What did DB carve on the rear airstair door before he jumped???

Remember that Pi put a sign.... over it??? Pi Airline of the year award???? Did DB Cooper just carve his initials??/
or something else.... is the A/C scrap metal now???

 

[wopr21]

"Pearl" making you the biggest damn omelette enough for 4 people in the old employee cafeteria in PIT. The one down stairs where it always smelled of methane. hahah

wopr21

 

[sbtinme]

Man??? How did you pull that one out of the hat??? 😱

Ok then...???? If you know the tail number....???? What did DB carve on the rear airstair door before he jumped???

Remember that Pi put a sign.... over it??? Pi Airline of the year award???? Did DB Cooper just carve his initials??/
or something else.... is the A/C scrap metal now???

I always thought (and had heard) that the story of his carving something on the plane was fully fiction. I never saw evidence that he had done so, but I could be completely wrong. I have heard it bantered back and forth, but someone always steps up and declares it urban legend, so I'm not sure.

I can confirm that the plane has been scrapped. From PI, I remember it went on to Air 1 (remember them?!?) and then to Key Air. I think that's where it stopped before being scrapped.

FWIW, I well remember N1639! In fact, didn't PI get all of the former NE 727-100s? There were about 10 of them as I recall and DL didn't want them since they didn't mesh with the DL fleet of 727-200s --- my guess is because of engine types and other variables.

Gosh, those were the days.

 

[cabinboy]

Did anyone mention the old phl crewroom on the 3rd floor down the hall from the former US Air Federal Credit Union
Or that loud elevator that we took up to the crewroom on the 3rd fl.

Or even checking in for our trips via the telephone in the crewroom and hearing the pleasant automated voice telling us to "have a pleasant trip? Or something like that.

those were the days.

thanks for the memories.

 

[ggiby]

I always thought (and had heard) that the story of his carving something on the plane was fully fiction. I never saw evidence that he had done so, but I could be completely wrong. I have heard it bantered back and forth, but someone always steps up and declares it urban legend, so I'm not sure.

I can confirm that the plane has been scrapped. From PI, I remember it went on to Air 1 (remember them?!?) and then to Key Air. I think that's where it stopped before being scrapped.

FWIW, I well remember N1639! In fact, didn't PI get all of the former NE 727-100s? There were about 10 of them as I recall and DL didn't want them since they didn't mesh with the DL fleet of 727-200s --- my guess is because of engine types and other variables.

Gosh, those were the days.

there was definately something on the back door.... they did put a plaq on it... cuz I have been on that a/c and worked that a/c

and it was a 727/100

 

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