Flightster Friday: The One Hour Day

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As I’ve written about before the “trips” (or flights a crew member is scheduled to work) we work often vary. There really isn’t such a thing as “do you always work this route?” because chances are, no, the crew doesn’t.

On this particular three day trip, on day two I was only scheduled to work one flight from San Francisco to San Diego. The flight time for this sector is usually secured at around one hour. Not to bad huh? I didn’t think so either, but my one hour day turned into quite a sloppy ordeal.

The last two passengers to board the plane were holding hands. As they walked past the first class bulkhead, one of them, the woman, sat down in 1A and the other, the guy, continued onto the exit row in 10B. I thought nothing of this as more often than not families are split between the cabins.

The Captain came out of the flight deck to hand off his paperwork to the ground staff and made his welcome aboard announcement. He arrives at the section of his speech where he introduces the cabin crew and as he said my name, 1A, stood up and gave me a standing ovation. Seriously? I hadn’t even said “hello” to her yet. But, I smiled, said thanks, and continued on prepping for departure.

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