What will get you kicked off U.S. Airways, and what will not!

[Dawn D.]

http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/22/6917783-what-will-get-you-kicked-off-us-airways-saggy-pants-or-underpants

Thought this was a rather cute story, for a change.


Dawn

[Sarah Louise]

I'm glad someone took a stand and kicked him off.

[VeryGnawty]

LOL, the man in the underwear is hilarious.

[Vicky]

I dunno -- the last airline flight I was on, the cabin was so darned cold ----- 

[spacial]

Whenever I've flown, it always seemed we were at the mercy of whaever mood the crew seemed to be in.

But in their defense, the fashion for wearing baggy trousers very low, has at times, been taken a bit too far, with some young men, seemingly showing a large part of the botttoms.

Equally, the guy in the female clothes was, by the look of him, pretty funny and clearly has a self effacing sense of humour about the whole thing.

But as long as airlines remain so popular, the crew will have little incentive to sharpen up their act. I recall, once when we had a particularly bad crew, thinking back to the adverts where the crew were portrayed as being so over friendly, you'd be forgiven, assuming they were about to offer services!

[justmeinoz]

He's lucky that you don't still have to walk down steps to get off the aircraft. With his pants around his knees he'd probably fall down them!

[Ann Onymous]

He's lucky that you don't still have to walk down steps to get off the aircraft. With his pants around his knees he'd probably fall down them!

it all depends on what airport you fly into or out of...even IAH has some gates where you walk out to the tarmac to board or after deplaning.  And I think EVERY gate at BUR is that way...at least both recent flights out there were like that.  The cigar tubes (Embraer regional jets) to MSY often deplaned on the tarmac  Oh, and Durango was a tarmac walk when I flew out there a few years ago...

There are others, but those are the ones that come to immediate mind when I think of the commercial flights I have had.  Private stuff is ALWAYS a tarmac walk even when it was a charter 737...

[JungianZoe]

Now that mention it, Ann, the airport in Normal, Illinois (BNI) is also a tarmac airport.  All they have is one or two waiting areas (enough seating for about 50 people) and then doors that lead outside where you then walk to the plane.   Then again, I haven't been in there for about five years, so maybe it's changed?

[Ann Onymous]

Now that mention it, Ann, the airport in Normal, Illinois (BNI) is also a tarmac airport.  All they have is one or two waiting areas (enough seating for about 50 people) and then doors that lead outside where you then walk to the plane.   Then again, I haven't been in there for about five years, so maybe it's changed?

lol...I forgot all about Bloomington/Normal...I used to fly into there a bunch when I had family in that part of the State.  Once they moved a little further north, it was easier to rent the car at ORD and drive down rather than connecting to Champaign. 

[JungianZoe]

lol...I forgot all about Bloomington/Normal...I used to fly into there a bunch when I had family in that part of the State.  Once they moved a little further north, it was easier to rent the car at ORD and drive down rather than connecting to Champaign.

I still go to Normal once or twice a year to visit my grandpa.   In fact, depending on what happens with my job situation, next month is the time to go.  I was actually born in Normal, and so I love telling people that I was born in Normal, but it's as close to normal as I ever got.   Or that, in any situation, I'm probably the only Normal person in the room.

My uncle is coming through Denver in the next few days as he drives from his house in Delaware to his house in Idaho, and I'll ask him if BNI still makes people walk out to the planes.  He took one of my aunts there on Monday for her flight back home.