According to a Facebook page, Kristie Koerbel is a flight attendant who wanted to let passengers know how to cope with the ongoing challenges of the airline industry including canceled flights and staffing shortages.
"I feel like as a Flight Attendant I should attempt to share some tips to get you through airline travel for the foreseeable future," Koerbel posted.
The Stew needs to come to grips with the fact that most people today are emotional-reacting, "It's my right, I deserve", angry, in-a-hurry individuals and they ain't gonna change.
ReplyDeleteWhen attendants et.al. had the power to tell the airlines that were mandating getting the vax, either drop the mandates or we walk en masse, they punted. Consequently 1000s of them as well as pilots, customer service workers, baggage handlers...you name it, either quit or got sick.They could have nipped all of this shit in the bud.
ReplyDeleteSo here we are. Almost every one of her recommendations should have been followed pre scamdemic anyway.
I remember when flying was fun. Hard to believe huh, but there were decades where we'd hop a flight to another city on the spur of the moment. Now? I had to take a few flights last year moving from TX to AR to WA and every flight or airport waiting area had mask nazis on my ass if my mask slipped below my nose.
The stews trend young, female, and left wing. They generally supported the mandate. The baggage handlers and pilots are mostly male, older, and right wing, and were against it.
DeleteBet she gets fired for telling the truth.
ReplyDeleteHere's a tip: if your trip is over water, ie: Atlantic/Pacific/Carribean fly. If not, go by auto.
ReplyDeleteShe almost lost me with that "I feel like as a Flight Attendant..." That was a second out of my life. "I feel like" is a phrase of an oxygen thief. Other than that, she made good points. And, the part about the telemeeting with CEOs and the Transportation Secretary shows the Biden administration's concern with airline problems, the AP writer shows his/her Democratic fan club membership.
ReplyDeleteButtplug only decided to care AFTER one of his flights got canceled.
DeleteAre people still flying? Really?
ReplyDelete48 hour drive or a 13 hr day to fly? Plus the gas money for a 3200 mile drive was more than the plane tickets. It was an easy answer.
DeleteI agree. You can spend 5 hours flying from Orlando to Las Vegas at a cost of less than $300 for two people, or I can spend 34 hours driving over three long, grueling days and spend $600 in gas. Flying sucks, but sometimes there are no better options.
DeleteWhen I was still working 60 plus hour weeks, my wife and I would take vacations to Florida, in the winter time. She loves the winter, here in Michigan, but as a lifelong foundry worker, I prefer the heat. So we would go to Florida when the airfare was low.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing was, you had to be flexible as to when you were willing to go, as in, airfare was cheap in 3 weeks, so book it now and go in 3 weeks. Fortunately, I had enough seniority that I could take any of my 5 weeks of vacation whenever I wanted, so long as no one else was already scheduled to go.
So my wife kept an eye out for bargains. The best we ever did, was we went for 5 days, 4 nights, plus a rental car, plus our 2 flights round trip. The total cost for those things was 300$. That is not a typo. 300$ was the total for those things combined for both of us. And this was in probably 2012 or so. I am guessing that the flights were around 30$ each way. We flew on Allegiant Air, out of Grand Rapids.
We never figured food cost since you must eat no matter where you are at, and we would go into a Sam's Club and eat pizza and a pop, or get a hot dog and a coke for 2.99$ from a gas station, etc. for lunch. We got a free buffet breakfast and often split an entree at dinner.
We usually didn't hit any theme parks, just did free or cheap things for fun. We found the Seminole Community College, I think it was called, that had the Moscow performers that put on a show like a circus act only better. They had dancers and such, with music, tumblers, acrobatic artists, etc. All free of charge, in an exchange program with an American group that was over in Russia at the same time. We also saw a Chinese group doing a similar thing, with their traditional costumes, but with a much more athletic performance, and they then had a buffet meal set up in their cafeteria, for a very cheap cost, that was put together by cooks accompanying the group.
We always tried to find cheap things like that when we were on vacation while I was working, since we also had kids at home. We seldom brought them, but kept them home. We did take them once or twice, and did the park thing, but even as far back as then, it was horribly expensive, and not worth the cost in my eyes.
When we first got married, my wife and I did a trip to Nashville, and my wife worked at the same place that I did, only in the office. She had a friend in the office who was friends with one of the beverage distributers in town, and he got us some VIP tours in Nashville, which were cool. I don't have any desire to go there now, of course.
And with what has occurred in the last couple of weeks, I can't see ever going on an extended trip again, other than within our own state. And I am planning on picking up another pistol from my son in a week or so. I have a double stack, plastic striker fired wonder nine. But he has a single stack, traditional single stack, S & W 3913, with hardly any rounds through it, that he got from his mother in law, who lived in California. I want to have that as well, just as a run to the corner store type of gun, and as a bit deeper cover summer gun. It is also all stainless, or at least it appears to be, with a dull finish, and it is a beautiful gun.
One can never have too many guns, right? I never have carried two guns at once, and don't expect to. But if it ever becomes necessary, the Smith would be able to do that, provided I got the right holster.