Cockpit Comedy – Eagle for Sale

American Eagle once had a plane to divest from AMR. their pilots had a rather hilarious response, in typical airline humor fashion

Air Quote of the Day 9/3/2009

Captain “Aw man the whole year has just been flying”

Me “I think you were just accidently ironically funny”

Mile High In the News – Southwest best paint scheme ever

Some American airline customers are fuming that a new aeroplane paint job has turned the family holiday into an adults-only affair.

The Dallas-based airline Southwest Airlines unveiled the latest addition to its fleet this month, a Boeing 737 with a bikini-clad model painted on the fuselage. The temporary paint job is part of a promotional deal with Sports Illustrated to tout the magazine’s annual swimsuit issue.

Some passengers complain that they’re being forced to board an aircraft plastered with soft porn.

“Many women do not enjoy having their husbands exposed to explicit pictures or explaining to young children why the lady on the plane is ’showing her boobies’,” wrote Chris and Sharon Kraemer of Midlothian, Texas, in a letter to the airline. “I would cancel my tickets if there was time to get a competitive rate.”

Numerous customers have chimed in with opinions on the aircraft’s paint job, which features a giant image of Sports Illustrated cover model Bar Refaeli. The airline has received emails, letters and comments on its corporate blog about the promotion, spokeswoman Brandy King said.

“Does anyone else find this kind of trashy for Southwest?” asked one customer on the carrier’s blog. “Having a woman in a bikini on the side of the plane hardly seems like the epitome of the friendly, down-home airline I’ve grown accustomed to.”

King said about 25 per cent of the feedback has been negative, while nearly three-fourths of the comments have been supportive.

“As with anything that’s different and unique, you do hear from some people who disagree,” King said. She added that airline executives spent a lot of time making sure the paint job was appropriate.

“We wanted to make sure it was in good taste before we put it up on the aircraft,” she said.

The plane is deployed as needed like other aircraft in the fleet, King said. The paint job will be removed within a few months, she said, when the promotion ends.

The complaints come after some religious groups expressed concern about adult content being streamed into aircraft cabins via in-flight internet services.

The group, Focus on the Family, recently demanded American Airlines install filters on its in-flight wireless internet service to prevent adult sites from being viewed. The group said it was worried underage passengers could be exposed to online porn.

Although American initially resisted calls to filter its service, executives with the Fort Worth-based airline later reversed course and installed software to block adult sites.

Refaeli isn’t the first attractive woman to be featured in a Southwest promotion. The airline aired television commercials in the 1970s starring flight attendants clad in hot pants and go-go boots, a uniform said to be favoured by co-founder Herb Kelleher.

The pendulum swung in the opposite direction in 2007, when Southwest was portrayed as prudish after a flight attendant scolded passenger Kyla Ebbert for wearing an outfit deemed too skimpy.

Ebbert went on a whirlwind tour of talk shows and interviews, complaining about her treatment on the flight. She later posed nude for Playboy’s internet site and was photographed frolicking with Richard Branson, the flashy British industrialist who heads the Virgin Group.

Southwest later apologised to Ebbert and launched a fare sale that included “mini-skirt prices”.

The bikini jet has some customers calling for a boycott of the airline. But others defend the promotion.

“This is Southwest being Southwest … having fun, not taking themselves too seriously, willing to take risks,” wrote one customer on the airline’s blog. “A true sign of marketing genius.”

Some questioned whether it would really do anything to increase revenue at a time when demand for travel is deteriorating.

“How many teenage boys are paying customers?” one passenger asked.

The Airline Song – Goodnight Sweeheart

Air Quote of the Day- 8/21/2009

“I’m learning to fly, but I aint got wings…Coming down, is the hardest thing” – Tom Petty

Cockpit Comedy – The life of a Regional First Officer

Mile High In the News – Pan Am bomber Set Free????

The man responsible for the bombing of Pan AM flight 103 has been set free!

“Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, suffering from terminal prostate cancer, was freed from prison in Scotland, with Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill citing compassionate grounds for the release and saying al Megrahi was “going home to die.”

The boeing 747 held 270 (most of which were Amercians) people when it was exploded over the skies of Lockerbie Scotland, the incident forever changed the live of those families as well as the fate of serveral thousand pan am employees as the airline never recovered after this incident. It filed chapter 11 just three years later.

Personally i usally right about wierd funny and bizzarre things in here, but this had to be said. This is an outright travesty that this man is walking free. The entirie streets of Lybia were celbrating this murderer’s return with a heros welcome. This event was a precursor to 9-11 and the largest terrorist attack on a us airliner before 2001.

Megrahi, served just 8 years of his life sentance before being realesed. The Scotland governor cited that he should be allowed to choose where he wants to die, but I say he didnt give 270 people or their families that right so why does he deserve it. Personally its an outrage he was allowed to live at all…… As a flight attendant the thought of a man creating this type of terror and then serving 8 years, we put people in jail for 10 years for software piracy and possesion of majajuana, this guy altere the course of an entire industry and destroyed coutless lives.

Where is the justice Scotland? Compassion this man doesnt deserve, where was his compassion for the inocent onboard that day. Thos people had nothing to do with his politcal motives and yet he killed them to make a statment against the US. How can you call yourself an ally, how can you possible look your own country men in the eye knowing you just spit on thier families graves to show a terrorist compasssion. I’m all for turning the cheek but this is rediculous.

I’m offically boycotting kilts, bag pipes, hagus, and Braveheart. Whats next, sending osama a fruit basket because he must be hungry hiding in those caves? this is complete and utter BS

Mile High in the news – Southwest diverts; Man exposes himself then punches woman in the face

By Angela Hill

OAKLAND — An incident on a Southwest Airlines flight where a man became combative and stripped naked left some passengers too shaken to fly.

The flight, bound for St. Louis with a stop in Las Vegas, had to return to Oakland International Airport on Thursday morning after a man exposed himself to a woman seated next to him, according to police. The man reportedly then began yelling, hit the woman and a couple of other passengers and eventually took off all his clothes. When the plane returned to the terminal in Oakland, several Alameda County Sheriff’s deputies arrested him, and he was taken to a hospital.

Passenger Jim Scanlon, 52, of San Ramon, who was on a business trip, saw the disturbance unfold. “About 20 minutes into the flight, I heard a ruckus about four rows behind me.

This big guy, about 6-1 and a good 300 pounds, wearing an Oakland A’s baseball cap, probably in his mid-20s, had hit a lady in the mouth,” Scanlon said. “He was yelling but not making any sense. Then he hit or slapped another woman who was sitting next to her husband, and he hit him on the top of the head.

“A flight attendant came running up the aisle, but he faked a swing at her, and she ran back to the back of the plane,” he said. “Another two crew members came toward him. He was totally out of his gourd.”

Surrounding passengers tried to calm the man, and he did sit down for a while, Scanlon said. “Then he stands up again and he’s totally naked,” he said. “Then he sat down again and threw up.”

 At that point, the plane began a banking turn to return to Oakland, where police used two sets of handcuffs to take him into custody, Scanlon said.

Air Quote of the day 8/17/2009

Flight Attendant “More anything?”

Jerry Sienfield “More everything!”

- from the airport episode

Cockpit Comedy – Family Guy