I’m not knowledgeable in this field, I had heard though that the two outer engines on the A380 had no reverse thrust. Maybe the facility is there, just not available ?

I work woith a certain British Airline that’s started doing this, and I feel the whole idea whiffs a bit. When you pay, you state you are able to assist. If you turn up at the airport a sweating hulk with oxygen tanks strapped to your wheelchair, no, you don’t get a refund and you sit where you’re told.

I only deal with CO 757s. Row 7 and 16 are certainly worth paying a few $$ more for, but I wonder if they’ll admit row exit row 15 has the extra legroom but non reclining seats ?

Seems a bit shady to charge for something that’s a requirement to have in the first place, will airlines be charging for having a blast on the oxygen masks next ?

She sought £120,000 ($A210,000) in damages and lost wages.

..this is when I lost interest, turn the other cheek and all that.

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I hope they give him more legroom than I had going from LHR to Nice.

And will they let him onboard with his staff and pointed hat?
I bet security will have something to say about that.

Is bottled Holy Water free?

Great name for a band…
Pontius Pilate and the Cabin Crew.

You’ll think I’m making this up, In BA’s PRS system ‘Holy Water’ is an option available to over ride an excess baggage charge. This only appeared around six months ago too IIRC, it can only have been put there as something has cropped up in the past.

I haven’t seen any at OSL for a while now, They have 5-6 737 parked up at remote stands most days too.

Norwegian have an ex-Finnair MD that turns up from time to time. You can see where the Finnair paint has been removed, the logo is still visible where the paint around has been bleached by the sun.

I checked in online once on a SAS 737, only to be greeted with an MD at the gate. Due to the aircraft change my seat allocation was gone and I was ‘lucky’ enough to sit next to the engine. The aircraft was a tired old rocket, and the seat was well past it’s sell by date, but like an old armchair it was well broken in and super comfy.

I had a charter gate the other day with a creaky old MD, the crew wanted the weights in imperial units for their loadsheet. That was a first for me 😮

Yep, I guess you’ve just started working with a handling agency !

Floorwalking is a crappy job, but the airlines insist on it. A certain British Airline is mad keen on it.

If anyone is flying over the Atlantic, forget it and just sent them to the check in desk and save everyones time. The APIS on most terminals is shocking.

Look at it as a positive, and not a negative and you won’t get yourself down about it.

As the passenger approaches, just kindly ask if they’ve checked in yet – harmless enough and not unreasonable. If yes then you can direct them to the correct check in desk (as all pax are magnetically drawn to the business desk !).

If the passenger says no, just ask ‘do you want to use our check-in machines, then you can chose your own seats’. No reasonable person will refuse this, and you’re telling the truth.

If they say ‘No’ then you have two options, if they are not able to do it themselves then you’ll just have to help them. This won’t be too many people in reality. If they are really stand-offish then you just need to resort to facts and point out there are no check in desks, only bag drops and they’ll have to do it.

Remember if a passenger complains that you made them use a check in machine, this is exactly what the airline want you to do.

I like the sound of you, you sound like you have some passion and put yourself in the passengers shoes 😀

.. Krabi Air for one,

http://www.krabi-airline.com/aboutkair.html

They only mention 767 on the website now but they were supposed to do Oslo to Thailand with 747’s.

OSL even went so far as to make the digital signage for the check in areas, I wasn’t holding my breath as the advertised prices were higher than Thai who started up the route at the same time.

… and big queues to the stinking toilets too.

As this flight is a charter it’ll be completely full. When I have a spare 5 minutes I edit flights. I sit all the infants in the right seat, get all the groups of kids separated and any frequent fliers up at the front. I also get big groups sitting together too.

I doubt you’ll have many kids on this flight, but lots of groups. These will all be preseated before the flight is open. Couples are easy to slot in anywhere, so I don’t bother preseating them.

Get there early or you’ll be risking it, or you can be a bit cheeky and request a wheelchair, then they’ll preseat you together. Just tell them when you check-in that you don’t need it. They wouldn’t have organised a wheelchair until you showed up, so it’s no great shakes, if a little cheeky.