http://www.elliott.org/commentary/pursers-or-peacekeepers/ Consumer advocate Christopher Elliott's site. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.elliott.org/commentary/pursers-or-peacekeepers/comment-page-1/#comment-9669 Travis Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:55:27 +0000 http://beta.elliott.org/photos/pursers-or-peacekeepers/#comment-9669 In addition. Whenever there is a tragedy and peoples lives are lost, or when someone saves the life of someone, you should never, ever, speak down about them, or their profession. That is shameful, and you should learn not to attach events that evolve death or the possibility of to your personal feelings. Am I to believe that all writers are heartless and have lost their minds because of you? You seem to portray that with flight attendants. I understand freedom of speech, but sometimes you have to put aside expressing your freedoms to avoid being idiot. In addition. Whenever there is a tragedy and peoples lives are lost, or when someone saves the life of someone, you should never, ever, speak down about them, or their profession. That is shameful, and you should learn not to attach events that evolve death or the possibility of to your personal feelings. Am I to believe that all writers are heartless and have lost their minds because of you? You seem to portray that with flight attendants. I understand freedom of speech, but sometimes you have to put aside expressing your freedoms to avoid being idiot.

]]> http://www.elliott.org/commentary/pursers-or-peacekeepers/comment-page-1/#comment-9667 Travis Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:42:06 +0000 http://beta.elliott.org/photos/pursers-or-peacekeepers/#comment-9667 I can see that this commentary is quite dated, however, as they are still online and viewable, I can not help, but post a reply. As for clarification to the final paragraph asking if Flight Attendants should be trained in hand to hand combat? To deputize them as law enforcement officers? Even to arm them? Sadly, they have. Who else is going to do it when away from the ground? We turned in our pill box hats and serving jackets for flex cuffs. As for armed flight attendants, no, armed pilots, yes. It is very true that flight attendants go over the top, but we all do when pushed to far. In some instances, the customer can not be right, if they were, all hell would break loose. Flight attendants go to work knowing that any person on a plane could be an FAA inspector. If, any thing small or big is not correct in the eyes of the FAA, the flight attendant will be fined ( normally $1,000 to start with ), and no customer is right for if they expect a flight attendant to take the fall for them so they can do as they wish and be " a customer ". May I ask where it is you have read that flight attendants are currently still there as service people only? Take into count the amount of short flights that fly without a scheduled service, but yet still have flight attendants. It is Safety, then service that we are onboard for. Look at the many airlines which fly in Asia where their crews give me highest service available. They seem to have the highest death tolls in survivable crashes. There are a lot actions that people fail to admit to and just omit during a complaint, or possible, writers omit. For example, Akiko Mitsui's case on a CO flight. It seems that she was still trying to stow her bag while the plane was in route to the runway because " The plane returned to the terminal ". Normally, all bags end up getting put away 5 min's before the plane leaves the terminal. So what happened between the 15 min's from door close to taxi? She just stood in the aisle trying to stow her bag? I can see that this commentary is quite dated, however, as they are still online and viewable, I can not help, but post a reply. As for clarification to the final paragraph asking if Flight Attendants should be trained in hand to hand combat? To deputize them as law enforcement officers? Even to arm them? Sadly, they have. Who else is going to do it when away from the ground? We turned in our pill box hats and serving jackets for flex cuffs. As for armed flight attendants, no, armed pilots, yes. It is very true that flight attendants go over the top, but we all do when pushed to far. In some instances, the customer can not be right, if they were, all hell would break loose. Flight attendants go to work knowing that any person on a plane could be an FAA inspector. If, any thing small or big is not correct in the eyes of the FAA, the flight attendant will be fined ( normally $1,000 to start with ), and no customer is right for if they expect a flight attendant to take the fall for them so they can do as they wish and be ” a customer “. May I ask where it is you have read that flight attendants are currently still there as service people only? Take into count the amount of short flights that fly without a scheduled service, but yet still have flight attendants. It is Safety, then service that we are onboard for. Look at the many airlines which fly in Asia where their crews give me highest service available. They seem to have the highest death tolls in survivable crashes. There are a lot actions that people fail to admit to and just omit during a complaint, or possible, writers omit. For example, Akiko Mitsui’s case on a CO flight. It seems that she was still trying to stow her bag while the plane was in route to the runway because ” The plane returned to the terminal “. Normally, all bags end up getting put away 5 min’s before the plane leaves the terminal. So what happened between the 15 min’s from door close to taxi? She just stood in the aisle trying to stow her bag?

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