This woman was so nervous about flying, so the flight attendant explained every sound and bump and even sat here holding her hand when it still got to be too much for her
This woman was so nervous about flying, so the flight attendant explained every sound and bump and even sat here holding her hand when it still got to be too much for her
I know this is a very tame example for what he meant but I'm reminded of Mr Rogers saying look for the helpers
151I think he would have said this is a perfectly valid example of what he meant
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"Don't worry about a thing, honey. I'm gonna help you through this."
"Those are all normal noises."
"Luggage compartment closing. Cross-checking."
"Just sit back and relax."
"That's just the engine powering up."
"That's just the engine struggling."
"That's just the carp swimming around your ankles."
150"That's just a routine patrol, we're not actually in Russian airspace."
"They're bluffing."
64"That's just the gremlin ripping apart the wing."
46There's some...thing...onthewing
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That noise was just a door panel busting open. This is a Boeing so it's perfectly normal.
33"Ah!! What was that? Ah yeha, those are the engines, sorry"
"Fuck! Is that God? Are we dead? Ahh, that's the captain speaking, it's fine."
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I did this once. A stranger asked me to hold her hand as we landed. It was the height of COVID and I was kind of wary, but I used some hand sanitizer before and after, and grabbed her hand as we hit the usual turbulence and bumps on approach. I figured if she was scared enough to ask a stranger to hold her hand, it would be meaningful to her to do it. We didn’t really talk before or after. Once we landed and started taxiing, she let go, thanked me, and I said you’re welcome.
81I figured if she was scared enough to ask a stranger to hold her hand, it would be meaningful to her to do it.
This is such an important realization, I think. It was a little bit awkward for you, but imagine her internal process.
46I've experienced some scary shit, for me -- nearly lost a limb (thanks be to medicine), cancer scare, etc. Life shit.
The simple human kindness of reassuring touch is so trivial at the time until you're really in the depths of the fear in the spinning, wild, no-no-no-no part. Then the triviality of reassuring human touch - platonic, but there to say you're not alone - is a fucking lifeline. Just for a moment.
11I have done it for kids before but not adults. I would do the same though. I flew from STL to Mobile, Al with a transfer in Atlanta when I was in 6th grade. The flight attendants and others that helped me thru it were wonderful.
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If the flight attendants aren't worried, I'm not worried. Eh, fuck it, I'm just not worried no matter what, it doesn't help.
76I'm not going to worry even if I'm being sucked out of the fuselage after the door plug blows out. Worrying won't help in any of these situations.
I'd probably scream a little tho
64I'd probably scream a little tho
Yeah might as well. It's funner when you put your hands up!
14That looks like a Delta plane. Delta doesn't fly any 737Max-9 planes. In the USA you'd need Alaska or United for that.
9Worrying won't help in any of these situations.
That's a rational take on something that isn't rational. Worry is fun in that it doesn't care about your logic.
Example: My friend was ditched in a round of layoffs a ways back with terrible timing. He's just moved back to the country, with a mortgage and other costs, taken in his dad to care for, and it's close to 10k/mo of run-rate with cars and dual taxes and just family costs. I bet he still worries, even though it's no help.
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The most apt description of worry that I've found is that worry is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but ultimately, it doesn't get you anywhere.
IMO, if the flight attendants look worried, I'm preparing myself to jump into action if required. Putting things away and getting ready to move at a moment's notice if it's needed. Beyond that, I'm not going to take charge and start delegating or anything. I don't have that much of an ego. I'm just ready and willing to help, and if I have a few minutes to prepare myself, then I can do that much more quickly.
As for worrying, I handle worry and stress with action. So until there's something to do, worry isn't a helpful emotion to me, so I'll do everything in my power to ignore or eliminate it until I can take action.
11I'm just not worried no matter what, it doesn't help
7As does Alfred E Neuman
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Don't worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.
2Just have to look on the bright side. If you die you never have to go back to work again. And a plane crash will be over quick.
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Not to be cynical, but she's seated in First Class. In my experience, there is usually one flight attendant for first class and one or more other ones for coach. On that plane may only be 15 first class passengers that need to be taken care of by that flight attendant.
I would like to think that this would have happened in coach too, but those flight attendants are a lot more busy.
Still, very nicely done to that flight attendant. Delta, give that flight attendant a raise!
edit to add: My goodness the disbelief in these being first class makes me think you haven't flown on commercial airplanes very much. Here's a map of that type of jet (which @zainitopia@lemmy.world correctly pointed out is a CRJ-900. A small regional jet Delta flies. The flight attendant is sitting on the floor in aisle 4. Here's a seat map showing all TWELVE of the First Class seats on this plane
50Idk what the other comments are saying this is very clearly first class on a Delta flight
6Outside of America, first class isn’t a relative term, but a fairly absolute one. If a flight doesn’t have very luxurious seats, it might not have a first class at all, and will instead have business class. If it lacks even the degree of luxury necessary to call its seats business class, it might only have premium economy, which is a term for seats which are entirely normal seats, but with slightly more legroom. You’d never get first class that is remotely possible to confuse for premium economy, because first class means something specific, it’s not relative to what else that particular plane is fitted for.
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Delta CEO: "I heard, 'Take all the credit and slash benefits.'"
3My goodness the disbelief in these being first class makes me think you haven’t flown on commercial airplanes very much.
I have, but inter city first class in Australia doesn't look like that, even for domestic flights! The only time I've seen first class look anything like that was a prop commuter plane, flying to a country town.
3Wouldn't the flighr attentant be required to be strapped down during take off and landing though?
1Those seats are way too small compared to first class seats. That looks like economy class to me.
-1That's domestic first class. Maybe on a smaller plane like an e175, but it's first.
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edit to add: My goodness the disbelief in these being first class makes me think you haven’t flown on commercial airplanes very much.
Literally 2 hours before your "edit to add", an explanation was already provided. From the diagram, this might actually be business class, and my earlier claim that it would be "premium economy at best" was perhaps overstated. But still, this would never be "first class" on domestic flights here in Australia, or on any of the very many international flights I've been on during my time growing up as an expat.
-3Literally 2 hours before your “edit to add”, an explanation was already provided.
2 hours after that explanation I was still receiving NEW posts claiming it wasn't First Class. People weren't reading the later posts and, like you, claiming it wasn't first class anyway. So one edit with a picture addressed both things.
From the diagram, this might actually be business class,
I don't get to decide what to call it. Its not my airline. Delta calls it first class.
But still, this would never be “first class” on domestic flights here in Australia,
I'm glad to learn something about my friends in Australia. However, this is an airline in the USA and this is what they call it.
or on any of the very many international flights I’ve been on during my time growing up as an expat.
Nor any international flights I've been on, but as I said in a later post, this is a regional jet. In the states smaller regional jets like CRJ and Embraer move passengers from smaller cities to larger hubs for cross country flights or international.
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What about that looks like first class to you? Based on the size of the seats, I’d say that at best we’re looking at premium economy.
-8US domestic ‘first class’ is pretty comically named. It is technically the best class available but it’s pretty similar to premium economy on an international flight.
There are a few airlines / routes that do better but the majority are not what you might expect for ‘first class’.
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Obligatory twilight zone:
'THERES SOMETHING ON THE WING!!!'
26Therrrrrrrrre's somethingonthewing, some....THING
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Young flight attendant arm wrestles passenger for a coffee
25Propably got fired after this for not being strapped in during take off and landing
22It didn't say he held her hand the entire flight.
14You can take that sentence about 6 different ways depending on which word you emphasize.
5To be fair there is not article. It's just a title and a picture.
That said, considering any flight I have ever been on, and based on talks from anyone I know who is afraid of flying, once the plane is in the air, it's neither scary or gives off any substantial soundsnor bumps that a flight attentant would be able to explain.
Therefore I think that it is fair to assume that this was mostly needed during take off and landing
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Kindness is wonderful.
19Replace his wage with the CEOs yearly income.
13A man among men. Someone buy this man a coffee!
6He's already got one
6Or a gift card. He’s got a venti already; no one’s getting soothed if he’s playing musical chairs in the bathroom.
3You get it.
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Delta!
5Love seeing how active this community’s become. Keep the good vibes rolling
4Awesome stuff right there!
2She probably just finished Society of the Snow.
1I watched that right before flying into a blizzard. That was a fun flight...
2Man, that crash was the most unique depiction of a plane crash I think I've ever seen on the screen. People getting impaled by twisted metal, being decapitated by the crumpling rows of seats. Blehhh.
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What a sweet man 💙
0Wondering why down votes tho lol
0It’s called “being human”. You should try it.
0It's called sitting in first class. You should try it. Let me know how it is too cause I sure ain't going to be doing it anytime soon.
5If the average person doesn't/wouldn't do that. Is it really being human?
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Pay this man
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-6Tbf neither the screenshot nor the caption explicitly mention which airline it is.
7You can see the logo on the safety card, but more specifically the flight pictured is operated by a wholely owned subsidiary (seen on his lanyard). The Flight Attendant gets paid less than a mainline Flight Attendant which makes it even more wholesome that they're going above and beyond.
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