Southwest Airlines was once well known for hiring only female flight attendants and dressing them in hot pants. At least one of its pilots apparently dislikes that it's not like that anymore.If you've flown lately you know that despite the political incorrectness, the pilot pretty much correctly summed up the current flight attendant situation. At least he described the last several flights I've taken. Last time I flew to Texas the head flight attendant was so light in his loafers he had to put rocks in his pocket to keep from floating away. I didn't know if I was on an airline flight or an episode of GLEE.
"Eleven f***ing over-the-top f***ing a** f***ing homosexuals and a granny. Eleven! I mean, think of the odds of that," the unidentified pilot said during a March flight.
He was talking to his co-pilot after take off from Houston about his attempts at having a nightlife with Southwest Airlines crew members laying over in Chicago, a city he called "party land."
The pilot labeled his Chicago-based flight crew as a "continuous stream of gays and grannies and grandes."
"So in six months I went to the bar three times; in six months, three times. Once with the granny and the f*g, and I wished I hadn't gone," he said.
What the pilot didn't apparently know what that everything he was saying was being transmitted over an open microphone on the air traffic control frequency. Controllers and pilots heard it all and tried several times to curb the dialogue.
"OK, someone has a stuck mic and telling us about all their endeavors and we don't need to hear that," a controller is heard saying.
The airline suspended the pilot without pay, forced him to take sensitivity training and the put him back in the cockpit.
And I doubt all the sensitivity training in the world will change that pilot's opinion. He just won't say it out loud anymore.
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Everybody ought to speak like they know an open mike is on their coat lapel!
The sensitivity training should consist of 8 hours showing him where the open-mic light is in the cockpit so he doesn't inadvertently offend the over-the-top f***ing a** f***ing homosexuals and a grannies.
A few years ago, I went to South Africa for a mission trip. The first leg of our trip was a flight from Detroit to London, and two of the flight attendants were so "light in the loafers," it was almost grotesque! (What's up with the "femmy" voice? Is that a requirement for gay men?) And what made matters worse, they kept flirting with each other and winking at each other. It was pretty awkward for most people! No one wants to know what goes on up front or at the back of the plane when the lights are off and people are sleeping. *heebie*jeebies*
Back in the days when airline deregulation was new, I drove many a flight crew to and from the airport. The things they said they would do. . . did they ever do them? I'd say yes, but not all of them. Some of the comments were over the top.
These crews, especially pilots, have (generally) been like this a long time. Part of the airline industry culture. It's part of what attracted them to the job in the first place. Having homosexuals and older employees in the mix wasn't what these pilots were looking for then. . . nor now. He was just being very honest (and depraved).
Having said that, I'm with Linda. It ought to be open mike on their lapel every moment of every day! You may now fasten your seatbelts. . .
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