Airline

My God! I'm watching this show on A&E and I want to cry.

The premise of the show is to show difficult situations encountered by airport staff at various airports in the US.

So far they've had to deal with keeping a passenger off a flight because he reeked. The poor supervisor actually had to tell the guy he can't get on because he's smelly, and asked him to go freshen up while she got him some clean clothes out of the company's training wardrobe. Her colleague went and bought him some deodorant. The poor guy was almost mute - I don't know if it was because he wasn't right in the head, or because he was utterly mortified, but it was SO sad. They ended up giving him a $12 food voucher as compensation. The supervisor felt just awful about having to deal with the situation. I can't blame her (see every BDI entry ever written).

Then there was a guy who started drinking as soon as he got to the airport, and was denied boarding. I don't feel sorry for him at all.

The third guy was a rather large man, who missed his flight because his rental car was hijacked. At the counter, the agent made him buy a second ticket because of his, um, girth. It gets worse. His flight is delayed about 7 hours due to a storm. Poor guy. OMG! apparently he was on standby, and now he's got no room on the flight. This guy CANNOT catch a break. He's 81st in line to check in. Seriously, I don't wish that kind of travel experience EVER.

Ooh! The next episode is about the day of the big BLACKOUT! Can't wait! *sets VCR.*

Posted by raptorgirl at January 11, 2004 03:35 PM