If you use your GPS on AA, be discreet about it

[upsilon]

It's not going to be perfect. File a complaint after the flight if you feel wronged.

As a person with experience in Employee Relations, I do file reports on both exemplary effort and errant behaviour by airline employees. And in the latter case, I feel the reports were accepted as justified when I gratuitously receive unrequested FF miles or chits.

 

[eolesen]

Yo, Know-It-All Dude,

Are you seriously attempting to claim that the American Way magazine takes precedence over what is published in AA's FAA Approved Flight Manual?

Could the magazine be wrong?

Or could you? (Gasp!!! )

Or, maybe it is only you...

I looked at the August 15 American Way online... As you say, it and the FA's announcement state that the FA's will let passengers know when it is ok to use approved devices... The actual list of approved devices is not there. However, the info in American Way is very specific, and nowhere does it state that GPS in one of these approved devices.

http://www.americanwaymag.com/08152009

Click on "Digital Editons" link to right of page, page 74.

Your own source gives lie to your claim. WTF?

So, l I gotta' ask... Is it really too much to ask that you follow the rules? Or are they only for all "those other people"?

I hear Heinz 57 goes good with crow.

It's a pretty sad state of affairs when the customers know more about the policies than the employees enforcing them.



Mark, there are some things that the government needs to be involved with, and far more that they have no business being involved with. This is one area where they need to butt out. It's bad enough we have uninformed flight attendants and gate agents making spurious claims about how certain things are FAA regulations versus company policy...

Among my favorites were being told I had to stay awake during the safety demo, and that using a mechanical camera to take pictures out the window (you know, the old fashioned type that use film and don't require batteries?) was a violation of both FAA rules and TSA security policy.

 

[Wretched Wrench]

I don't want to read sometime into what someone meant to say. But you're not trying to equate an American Airline employee with a member of the Nazi party are you? I asked a similar question before and don't recall receiving a reply.

Are you being silly, or do you have an axe to grind?

Then you need to educate yourself about the Nazis and what Storm troopers were.
Some people including flight attendants or other employees may be rude, in your opinion, but don't call them Nazis. Doing so shows your complete ignorance or your use of unjustified hyperbole.
I wouldn't want to be around when you're ignorant enough to say that to someones face whose grandparents were concentration camp survivors.

Never mind.

 

[Skymess]

What? The TSA missed the "Putty like material" this clown used to affix the antenna to the window?

How does that happen? Seriously, isn't that exactly what those mushrooms are supposed to be looking for? A putty like material of unknown composition but it sails right past the Keystone Kops? What are the odds of that happening?

Send both Pierre St.Frog and the TSA a bill for the interrupt.

The most sane post in this thread.

Let's see, putty and an electronic device together. Brilliant idea post 9/11. This guy doesn't deserve jail he deserves a beating and a lethal injection because he's a moron.

To many the correct response would appear to be:
FA: That's ok sir you just do whatever you feel like doing and I'll be on my way.

 

[meechy36]

The flight was COMING from Paris, what does TSA have to do with that?

 

[Mach85ER]

The flight was COMING from Paris, what does TSA have to do with that?

Starting with the fact there were US Citizens onboard, you could include about 500 other reasons including the possibility it could be an act of war.

 

[FWAAA]

Starting with the fact there were US Citizens onboard, you could include about 500 other reasons including the possibility it could be an act of war.

In post #4, JFK Fleet Service mistakenly asked how the TSA missed the putty-like material and others have commented that the flight was CDG-BOS, so the TSA missed nothing, since the TSA doesn't waste space at CDG the way they do at hundreds of USA airports.

Obviously, the cheese-eating surrender monkeys in France missed the putty-like material, which is par for the course given that Richard Reid was cleared to fly with the exploding shoes.

 

[FA Mikey]

In all fairness shoes were not specifically checked at any airport prior to that happening. He was given additional screening by AA security, and was not able to make the original flight. French law did not permit an individual airline the right to deny passage, and he was cleared for the flight the next day. Luckily for us all the crew was made aware of the situation and the previous days events. They reported keeping an extra special eye on him. Additionally the rain that morning wet the wick and allowed the flight attendants time to catch him in the act, and subdue him.

 

[Ifly2]

I hear Heinz 57 goes good with crow.

It's a pretty sad state of affairs when the customers know more about the policies than the employees enforcing them.



Mark, there are some things that the government needs to be involved with, and far more that they have no business being involved with. This is one area where they need to butt out. It's bad enough we have uninformed flight attendants and gate agents making spurious claims about how certain things are FAA regulations versus company policy...

Among my favorites were being told I had to stay awake during the safety demo, and that using a mechanical camera to take pictures out the window (you know, the old fashioned type that use film and don't require batteries?) was a violation of both FAA rules and TSA security policy.

Well,

They told the rest of the airline today... probably only happened that fast because someone asked... seemed Inflight was the only department who knew...


/cheers....

 

[eolesen]

Well,

They told the rest of the airline today... probably only happened that fast because someone asked... seemed Inflight was the only department who knew...


/cheers....

Marketing and Publishing obviously knew about it as well, and had enough lead time to go to press with the 8/15 issue of American Way...

If anything, the only group who didn't seem to know were the pilots, and that's interesting because you'd think Flight was the one who had to sign off on it...

 

[JimJimmyJim]

Marketing and Publishing obviously knew about it as well, and had enough lead time to go to press with the 8/15 issue of American Way...

If anything, the only group who didn't seem to know were the pilots, and that's interesting because you'd think Flight was the one who had to sign off on it...

We get it eolesen, you are in the know. What is the point of this thread?

 

[Mach85ER]

If anything, the only group who didn't seem to know were the pilots, and that's interesting because you'd think Flight was the one who had to sign off on it...

Flight's run by a part-time commuter, a junior VP which means while any discussion regarding the issue was occurring in the playroom of the"big dog" room, the said junior VP was probably in his assigned plastic white chair in the back of the room, near the doughnuts and the coffee pots. Unable or unwilling to interject himself into any issue that might concern the pilot group, discussion or debate is rendered subordinate to checking on his departure status of his commuter flight home.