Comments on: The Infamous Delay http://upupandagay.com/2009/10/23/the-infamous-delay/ By: Bobby Laurie, Travel Expert Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Traytable http://upupandagay.com/2009/10/23/the-infamous-delay/#comment-237 Traytable Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:00:06 +0000 http://upupandagay.com/?p=571#comment-237 So true! I once got to the airplane on an extremely late-notice callout, only to have some smartarse go off at me for 'sleeping in'. I cheerfully informed him that I'd been called in on my day off and had I chosen not to come to work, we would have been below the minimum crew complement & the fllight would have been cancelled- meaning he;d miss the important business meeting he was on his way to. He didn't say anything after that! Another time the passengers complained about me getting to the plane at boarding time (ground staff were keeping the minimum complement onboard) but whe I informed them the reason I was here so late was because one of my colleagues just had an accident ( and we didn't know if she had made it or not) they sure changed their tune!) I have a theory about the 'D' word- maybe I'll make it a post, it's quite an interesting concept... :) So true! I once got to the airplane on an extremely late-notice callout, only to have some smartarse go off at me for ‘sleeping in’. I cheerfully informed him that I’d been called in on my day off and had I chosen not to come to work, we would have been below the minimum crew complement & the fllight would have been cancelled- meaning he;d miss the important business meeting he was on his way to. He didn’t say anything after that!

Another time the passengers complained about me getting to the plane at boarding time (ground staff were keeping the minimum complement onboard) but whe I informed them the reason I was here so late was because one of my colleagues just had an accident ( and we didn’t know if she had made it or not) they sure changed their tune!)

I have a theory about the ‘D’ word- maybe I’ll make it a post, it’s quite an interesting concept… :)

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