You think those pilots dump the black tanks on those RV's? Or do the same guys pulling the little aircraft "honey wagons" drive by the RV's and mix the black with the blue water...There has GOT to be more to life than that.
You think those pilots dump the black tanks on those RV's? Or do the same guys pulling the little aircraft "honey wagons" drive by the RV's and mix the black with the blue water...
Yep, you need to get out more - maybe fly somewhere to gain some new perspective on life.Or maybe I need to be more open minded.
Yep, you need to get out more - maybe fly somewhere to gain some new perspective on life.
Can you volunteer for some sort of work-related travel before you retire?
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Amazing story. I can see the sense of it though.
Maybe you could witness something like thisYep, you need to get out more - maybe fly somewhere to gain some new perspective on life.
Can you volunteer for some sort of work-related travel before you retire?
I'm all for whatever makes the pilots well-rested, comfortable and fired up about flying us all to wherever and making a nice landing at the end. Nobody wants a tired, grumpy, and unhappy pilot.
On the same flight I sat across the aisle from some flight attendants that had just got off and were flying home. One woman was talking to a foreign couple about her job. She had a laundry list of what was bad about the job. Regular hourly wage only kicks in once the door to the airplane closes and they get like $2 an hour for everything else. An extra $5, for the flight, if the plane is full. Years of working a miserable schedule, sleeping in hotels 6 nights a week, etc.
I have three family members who work for airlines, one does scheduling, one checks people in and one works in the phone center. They all get the travel benefit but with the airlines flying full planes, it is much harder to get around for free.
A bit off topic, but yesterday I saw a very old woman with bad cancer, accompanied by her gen-x son who was irate and had antagonized every previous doctor she had seen -- really out of control and I was forewarned. For whatever reason he took a liking to me and said more than once that he can't stand young doctors, or how the old ones like me at least know how to explain things, blah blah. All I really did was lend him an ear, refrain from antagonizing him and maybe paid him a compliment or two on how well he understood this complex situation.
