Uncover 40 Shocking Plane Secrets Airlines Don’t Want You to Know!
– Flying with pets is sometimes unavoidable, I am in no way saying that flying your pet makes you a bad owner, Just bare in mind the conditions that they will be experiencing. (They might need some extra cuddles when they get back)
– A lot of baggage handlers I have seen are really good about pets, but not everything. The people that are moving your pets onto the plane are not very well paid, at least what they deserve.
– Every airline is different, check with your airline and see what their pet policy is, and ask about any VIP or in cabin options, while not the best, it may be more comfortable for your pet.
– The people who I have seen that look after your pet before they are loaded onto plane are really great guys, and love what they do. Again, results may very from airport to airport.
Posted this in a similar thread a while back.
I have a friend who’s a commercial pilot. Around five years ago he was doing a flight from LA to Tokyo when an anonymous caller phoned in a threat while they were over the middle of the Pacific. Apparently they have procedures for this kind of thing, but there was nothing anyone could do in this situation except stay calm and not alert the passengers (obviously). He said for the rest of the flight every bump of turbulence made his adrenaline spike. They took this case especially seriously because there was a group of foreign dignitaries sitting in the first class cabin.
Your bags are thrown and dropped very frequently. Then they are put in tiny cargo compartments, where 50-150 other bags are set on top of them. Then they slide around until you land. Then they are dropped and thrown and finally, you retrieve them.
Not really a secret, but as a baggage handler if you don’t use a regular suitcase with handles on the top and bottom, I absolutely hate you
Edit: Also, those of you who travel the world with your body sized backpacks are the spawn of the devil. I can’t decide which is the worst piece of luggage to try and stack in an orderly manner, those huge backpacks, car seats, or golf bags.
I am a commercial aircraft fueler. At my airport we get a lot of small jets (crj200,700,900, erj 145, 737’s, MD 88,95,DC 9). One of the main things as a fueler is having to over wing a plane. We do that when the single point on the plane is inop and have to pump 600-1000 gallons of jet a into the plane. This is when you see us (1 on each side) take a small fuel pump (usually the ones you put in your car) and balance out the fuel on each side. It’s a long process, usually 2 gallons/sec. Fueling is labor intensive but no where near as bad as the ramp agents.
I also was a ramp agent for united, and most any ramp agent will tell you, don’t buy expensive luggage. When your bag weighs 30-40 pounds and I have 50-100 bags coming to me at once, I can’t treat yours with love and care that you would like. They usually want small jets out in 20 minutes ( this includes scanning bags, downloading, dropping off, scanning new bags for departure and loading and pushing back).
Another tidbit, if you are pushed back and sitting there it’s because either your wheels up got pushed back or your delayed. Pilots don’t get paid when brakes are set. They get paid pilot pay when the brakes are released.
You can only be pushed away and sitting there waiting to leave for 2 hrs, after that you return to the gate and this way you can take care of business .
Your flight will get delayed or cancelled if your coffee pot is broke or inop.
Planes break, it’s unfortunate but respect it. The airlines care very much about safety, they will ground your plane for the smallest issue. I have seen a plane cancelled because the lave was clogged. But at the end of the day you should be thankful.
First time poster but I love my job, and planes and decided to give some insight.
There’s a special frequency called Guard that all aircraft are supposed to monitor. It’s for emergencies, or for when an aircraft ends up on a wrong frequency and the controllers need to get contact with them to change them to the right frequency.
It’s full of pilots meowing at each other, and people accidentally asking for gate assignments and making other radio calls.
My uncle was a pilot. He says that most people don’t understand how much of the airplane is run by computers. The pilots are necessary but a lot of the elements of flying are automated nowadays.
As an Air Traffic Controller we are constantly swearing and yelling at pilots when we’re not on the frequency and then when we key up we use our nice guy voices.
One of my all time favorites is the Captain accidentally broadcasting his passenger briefing (welcome aboard, weather in chicago and so on) on frequency instead of the aircraft PA system, blocking up ground, ramp, tower, etc. for a solid 15 seconds. You automatically become the laughing stock of the airport.
Passengers have no idea how complicated a flight is from a pilots perspective. Let me walk you through it.
We show up around an hour before the flight and get the paperwork. Is the weather ok? Is the forecast for the destination going to be above our minimums? Is it above minimums, but requires an alternate airport to be listed in case the weather doesn’t go quite as planned? What equipment is broken at the airport that might affect these minimums? How about the departure airport? Do we need to plan for an airport to go to if we take off and have a problem, but can’t get back into our departure airport due to weather, slippery runways, etc.?
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