Funny flight

creeky · Post by **creeky** » May 27, 2008 6:15 am

I had the funniest flight home today from Cairns to Sydney on VirginBlue (part of Virgin) .....

The chief flight attendant started off with
"Can we all have your attention please for our "riveting" safety demonstration"

He then started to introduce the crew starting with Michelle ... "everyone, please pay close attention to Michelle as she is just back from Hong Kong where she participated in the "world safetly demonstration championships" and came second

As the poor girl was doing her demonstration he would go "nice pointing Michelle"

He then advised us that they have the latest "gucci" lifevests under the seat

then it came time for another attendant to tell the other attendants to sit
"flight attendants please be seated for blast off"

And finally it was "It has been a pleasure for you to have us today"

Lots more little comments in there along the way - they were the best - certainly is much better than the stuff recorded messages that some airlines have

unclejohn · Post by **unclejohn** » May 27, 2008 6:31 am

That sounds fun!

dnw · Post by **dnw** » May 27, 2008 8:33 am

pojo · Post by **pojo** » May 27, 2008 9:24 am

that would have been a FUN ride!!!

karat · Post by **karat** » May 27, 2008 10:07 am

What US airlines had something along the same line.. was it JetBlue? Whoever it was, I know they no longer exist, or they are very very limited flying. I was on it twice, more of commuter flights. It was a recording of a man and a woman with a Southern accent. It kept your attention which was the key.

Creeky - I'm sure live and in person was much better

Salukulady · Post by **Salukulady** » May 27, 2008 10:22 am

karat wrote:What US airlines had something along the same line.. was it JetBlue? Whoever it was, I know they no longer exist, or they are very very limited flying. I was on it twice, more of commuter flights. It was a recording of a man and a woman with a Southern accent. It kept your attention which was the key.

Creeky - I'm sure live and in person was much better

Southwest is known for their humor.

On another subject ....Hey Creeky, I finally went to World Market to get some Vegimite....guess what, it can't be imported into the U.S. any longer. Some problem with yeast products.....they still had some Marmite on the shelf so I bought it. The salesperson said they were sort of alike. I spread it on a cracker....taste like a bullion cube paste. I liked it. Thanks for the advice. My sis is going to Europe this summer, she said she'd try to sneak some Vegimite home.

Skibo · Post by **Skibo** » May 27, 2008 8:06 pm

I've been on commercial airlines for 4 weeks straight now. With my current mood and feelings about the disaster that US airtravel has become that episode while charming would probably send me over the edge.

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » May 27, 2008 8:08 pm

Typical Southwest humour. Some other airlines have copied the model to varying degrees

Post by **SMLCHNG** » May 27, 2008 8:10 pm

I sooo love people with a sense of humor!! Good for them!!! Thanks for the giggle, Jenny!

popcornjack · Post by **popcornjack** » May 27, 2008 8:11 pm

Skibo wrote:I've been on commercial airlines for 4 weeks straight now. With my current mood and feelings about the disaster that US airtravel has become that episode while charming would probably send me over the edge.

yeah, but if they did it juuuuuuuuust right, nice balance of straight humor and sarcasm, you would have at least chuckled.

creeky · Post by **creeky** » May 27, 2008 8:23 pm

popcornjack wrote:
Skibo wrote:I've been on commercial airlines for 4 weeks straight now. With my current mood and feelings about the disaster that US airtravel has become that episode while charming would probably send me over the edge.
yeah, but if they did it juuuuuuuuust right, nice balance of straight humor and sarcasm, you would have at least chuckled.

We all chuckled ... and it was just great Aussie humour at it's best and done with a nice dry sarcastic tone.

Skibo · Post by **Skibo** » May 27, 2008 8:31 pm

popcornjack wrote:
Skibo wrote:I've been on commercial airlines for 4 weeks straight now. With my current mood and feelings about the disaster that US airtravel has become that episode while charming would probably send me over the edge.
yeah, but if they did it juuuuuuuuust right, nice balance of straight humor and sarcasm, you would have at least chuckled.

Nah, today I would have gone postal. Today I flew to Houston on a full fare ticket, paid $25 extra to check a bag that contained items that TSA would not allow me to get through their impenetrable shield of stupidity. I then was instructed by the flight attendant that my laptop had to go under the seat in front of me because too many people were carrying overloaded suitcases on board. Of course the 45 minutes on the tarmac and no Starbucks in Philthy airport didn't help either. Did I mention that full fare also got me a middle seat on a 737? chuckle probably maniacal laughter as the on board security attempted to subdue me. I'll be on my way to Oakland tomorrow I better have a window seat.

creeky · Post by **creeky** » May 27, 2008 8:33 pm

Skibo wrote:
popcornjack wrote:
Skibo wrote:I've been on commercial airlines for 4 weeks straight now. With my current mood and feelings about the disaster that US airtravel has become that episode while charming would probably send me over the edge.
yeah, but if they did it juuuuuuuuust right, nice balance of straight humor and sarcasm, you would have at least chuckled.
Nah, today I would have gone postal. Today I flew to Houston on a full fare ticket, paid $25 extra to check a bag that contained items that TSA would not allow me to get through their impenetrable shield of stupidity. I then was instructed by the flight attendant that my laptop had to go under the seat in front of me because too many people were carrying overloaded suitcases on board. Of course the 45 minutes on the tarmac and no Starbucks in Philthy airport didn't help either. Did I mention that full fare also got me a middle seat on a 737? chuckle probably maniacal laughter as the on board security attempted to subdue me. I'll be on my way to Oakland tomorrow I better have a window seat.

Being a much less populated country, with only 7 capital cities ... we rarely get delays ...... so flying is relatively stressfree here

UpstateNYPH · Post by **UpstateNYPH** » May 27, 2008 8:38 pm

One of the flight attendants on jetblue gave a funny safety demonstration a couple years back. ONe of his comments was, "In the rare event of a water landing, your floatation vest is equipped with a light so the sharks can see you before they eat you."

There were many more comments but it is definitely nice when you have someone to throw some humor into an already hectic travel day.

creeky · Post by **creeky** » May 27, 2008 8:53 pm

UpstateNYPH wrote:One of the flight attendants on jetblue gave a funny safety demonstration a couple years back. ONe of his comments was, "In the rare event of a water landing, your floatation vest is equipped with a light so the sharks can see you before they eat you."

There were many more comments but it is definitely nice when you have someone to throw some humor into an already hectic travel day.

now that would have been just plain scary for us seeing we were about to fly out over cairns to the Great Barrier Reef before turning south .....

UpstateNYPH · Post by **UpstateNYPH** » May 27, 2008 8:58 pm

creeky wrote:
UpstateNYPH wrote:One of the flight attendants on jetblue gave a funny safety demonstration a couple years back. ONe of his comments was, "In the rare event of a water landing, your floatation vest is equipped with a light so the sharks can see you before they eat you."

There were many more comments but it is definitely nice when you have someone to throw some humor into an already hectic travel day.
now that would have been just plain scary for us seeing we were about to fly out over cairns to the Great Barrier Reef before turning south .....

My sister flew to Australia today

I should have hid in her luggage.

bravedave · Post by **bravedave** » May 27, 2008 9:59 pm

UpstateNYPH wrote:One of the flight attendants on jetblue gave a funny safety demonstration a couple years back. ONe of his comments was, "In the rare event of a water landing, your floatation vest is equipped with a light so the sharks can see you before they eat you."

There were many more comments but it is definitely nice when you have someone to throw some humor into an already hectic travel day.

"water landing"
That's an oxymoron, n'est pas?

good tale, Jen.

Bring us another soon. Please

ragtopW · Post by **ragtopW** » May 27, 2008 11:20 pm

karat wrote:What US airlines had something along the same line.. was it JetBlue? Whoever it was, I know they no longer exist, or they are very very limited flying. I was on it twice, more of commuter flights. It was a recording of a man and a woman with a Southern accent. It kept your attention which was the key.

Creeky - I'm sure live and in person was much better

Frontier they are great!!!
well.. prior to Memorex..