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Have you ever been on a flight?

  • 21-04-2020 2:25pm
    #1
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,855 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    If so how did it go?

    I've not been on one myself unfortunately and don't think I'd fare well either.

    Was watching some flights on reddit and some were brutal. Ive not seen anything overly rough here either - mostly sitting around and a lot of shouting.

    But it seems with the popularity of Ryanair etc there seems to be a lot more flying and trying to land on to on ground now and taxi-ing.

    So, how did your flights go and what was the worst or funniest you've seen?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    iamstop wrote: »
    If so how did it go?

    I've not been on one myself unfortunately and don't think I'd fare well either.

    Was watching some flights on reddit and some were brutal. Ive not seen anything overly rough here either - mostly sitting around and a lot of shouting.

    But it seems with the popularity of Ryanair etc there seems to be a lot more flying and trying to land on to on ground now and taxi-ing.

    So, how did your flights go and what was the worst or funniest you've seen?


    Threads like this is why After Hours is gone to pot


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,969 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    Wat


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭begbysback


    Wouldn’t be surprised if flying is statistically the safest mode of transport


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    Have you a fever?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,893 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Need to put your faith in the science and the stats and not worry about the mechanics of the how .


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,803 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    This is like something you might say in the 1950s. Jaysus...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,557 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Moderator of what?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91 ✭✭SQLDBA


    lawred2 wrote: »
    Moderator of what?

    Aviation forum


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,396 ✭✭✭Tefral


    iamstop wrote: »
    If so how did it go?

    I've not been on one myself unfortunately and don't think I'd fare well either.

    Was watching some flights on reddit and some were brutal. Ive not seen anything overly rough here either - mostly sitting around and a lot of shouting.

    But it seems with the popularity of Ryanair etc there seems to be a lot more flying and trying to land on to on ground now and taxi-ing.

    So, how did your flights go and what was the worst or funniest you've seen?

    Th ones online are posted because something happened and they make for interesting viewing. The vast bulk of flights are just boring A to B. If your lucky you'll go longhaul and get free booze.

    I have been on all sorts of flights including aborted landings, flying through crazy storms in Thailand, landing and taking off on ice, water etc.

    Im still alive.

    Scientific evidence shows its one of the safest ways to travel.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭KungPao


    These things go down, these things go down.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 894 ✭✭✭cian68


    Got moved to the seat by the emergency exit once. The legroom was incredible. It's been tough going back to regular seats after. If I hadn't seen such riches I could live with being poor


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    This is like something you might say in the 1950s. Jaysus...

    In the mid-90s, there was an episode of the Late Late Show where immediately after the show, everybody in the audience was given a trip on a specially chartered Aer Lingus flight for a short journey from Dublin Airport and back again. For a lot of them, it was a genuine 'once in a lifetime' experience.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,059 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Nostalgia in advance of us not being able to go on a plane anytime soon, very good, very good.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,608 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Threads like this is why After Hours is gone to pot

    By a Mod no less...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 Russell D. Woodcock


    Dear iamstop

    I boarded my first flight in 1964 in London. A BOAC Comet 4 directly to Egypt. I'm half-deaf now as a result on the noise of the engines from flights in those early days.

    But air travel was a damn sight more pleasurable back then. A far more civilised affair. You could have a smoke on the plane, the seats were more comfortable and the trolley dollies were always easy on the eye.

    Oh yes. Wonderful times indeed. Particularly if you spotted a randy minx with a glint in her eye. The Russler often had the pleasure of sharing his hotel room on the African continent with pert and playful air hostesses.

    Best regards,

    Russell


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,439 ✭✭✭landofthetree


    In the mid-90s, there was an episode of the Late Late Show where immediately after the show, everybody in the audience was given a trip on a specially chartered Aer Lingus flight for a short journey from Dublin Airport and back again. For a lot of them, it was a genuine 'once in a lifetime' experience.

    Back in the 80s the average one way flight to London from Dublin set you back around 200 punts.

    That was a week wages for somebody in a well paid job.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,016 ✭✭✭Ultrflat


    I usually slip half a Valium before I get on the plane and pass out... I hate sitting still for hours. Tho one week I was at a wedding in Rome, I spent the last night drinking till 5, and then bunched up in a ryan air flight for 3 hours followed by a 30 min buss followed by a 2 and half hour train.

    I never wanted to puke **** and cry so much in all my life.


    I've learned when travelling don't drink, lots of vodka the last night.. :D

    Introduced me to sky vodka and gray goose both of which I enjoy a lot :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    Been in a few dust ups alright


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Why fly when you can walk on water?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 208 ✭✭candycock


    Few fights ended up in court.convicted for assault.dont do it,just walk away.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,725 ✭✭✭✭blueser


    Easy known the schools are shut.


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