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Deaf woman removed from Frontier flight for "not listening" (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Krauerking@lemy.lol to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 39 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm a pilot (not commercial) and if you're still flying Frontier then that is kind of on you.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (3 children)

If you go to a party, how will you know which person is a pilot?

[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If they don't flat out tell you, it's usually the drunkest one there

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

As a former flight attendant I can attest to this. If people knew how often their pilots used the cockpit O^2^ to cure hangovers there would be a lot less people comfortable with flying. At least in the US, that is. I can't speak for other countries.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I dont know, how?

[–] WhoIsTheDrizzle@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I dunno if you're being facetious, but it's their entire personalities and all they talk about... In my experience, in general. No offense to pilots who don't do this. How people describe marathon runners and vegans.

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I use Arch, by the way.

(I don't, I used Debian. It just fit.)

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I was trying to set you up for the punch line, but this works too, lol.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

“They’ll tell you”

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago

he mentioned it

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I don’t fly often… like maybe once every few years. And when I do my boss usually books the flight since It’s work related and it’s usually American or Southwest.

Is Frontier that bad?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yes. The last time i flew Frontier they had such a long delay it would have been faster to walk. No that is not an exaggeration.

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have to ask what the flight was

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Slc to smf. Detour in Denver, delayed 12 hours, got into a different flight to oak instead of smf, delayed another 6 hours.

I am ungenerous with my accounting, but I can make it on foot from oak to smf in 18 hours and that's what I'm counting (it's just under 100 miles, I am assuming I will die the next day like all ultra marathon folk)

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 10 points 3 months ago

It is a low cost airline like Spirit.

So yes.

[–] Ibuthyr@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago

Flying in the USA is the worst. Your airports are shit, your airlines are shit, your TSA is shit, it's all just a gigantic pile of shit over there.