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Rude Customers

Made me laugh. Sorry if its been posted before

An award should go to the Virgin Airlines gate attendant in Sydney some months ago for being smart and funny, while making her point, when confronted with a passenger who probably deserved to fly as cargo.

A crowded Virgin flight was cancelled after Virgin’s 767s had been withdrawn from service. A single attendant was re-booking a long line of inconvenienced travelers. Suddenly an angry passenger pushed his way to the desk. He slapped his ticket down on the counter and said, “I HAVE to be on this flight and it HAS to be FIRST CLASS”.

The attendant replied, “I’m sorry sir. I’ll be happy to try to help you, but I’ve got to help these people first, and I’m sure we’ll be able to work something out.”

The passenger was unimpressed. He asked loudly, so that the passengers behind him could hear, “DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHO I AM?”

Without hesitating, the attendant smiled and grabbed her public address microphone: “May I have your attention please, your attention please …” she began – her voice heard clearly throughout the terminal. “We have a passenger here at Gate14 WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHO HE IS. If anyone can help him find his identity, please come to Gate 14.”

With the folks behind him in line laughing hysterically, the man glared at the Virgin attendant, gritted his teeth and said, “F… You!”

Without flinching, she smiled and said, “I’m sorry, sir, but you’ll have to get in line for that too.”

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By: Tom Groot - 20th April 2006 at 18:55

PH-MCS? Isn’t that aircraft of Dutch airline ArkeFly? Or is it from the former Debis AirFinance?

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By: bmi-star - 20th April 2006 at 16:24

LMAO, whish i was allowed to do things like that with Tourists at my workplace :D:D

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By: Grey Area - 20th April 2006 at 16:14

It’s a cracking story, but did Virgin Atlantic B767s really operate to and from Australia? :confused:

I suspect that the story originated when most, if not all, of the Ansett B767s were suddenly grounded in December 2000 (and again in April 2001) due to “lack of airworthiness”, throwing parts of their route network into chaos.

The name of another Australian airline – ie, Virgin Blue – probably entered the story after Ansett finally went belly-up.

Don’t you just love urban myths? :diablo:

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By: A330-300 - 20th April 2006 at 15:26

BAM!

And there it came…

http://photos.airliners.net/photos/middle/3/1/2/0032213.jpg

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By: andrewm - 20th April 2006 at 15:21

Virgin have B767s?

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By: Barnowl - 20th April 2006 at 11:20

Stupendous!!

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By: holty - 20th April 2006 at 11:00

superb!!!!

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By: DazDaMan - 20th April 2006 at 10:03

Excellent! 😀

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By: PMN - 20th April 2006 at 09:35

Brilliant! Just brilliant!

OK, so the guy was having a bad day, but so were the other 250 odd passengers. I love hearing tales like this!

Paul

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