Unfortunately there isn't much alternative when traveling long distances. In the past people managed just fine spending their whole lives within a 7 mile radius but now everything has spread out due to the invention of trains, cars and airplanes. Sucks to be you if you have business trips or family to visit abroad.
Dropped someone off at the airport over the holidays. The little airport was in chaos because they hadn't been able to get any flights off the ground for days prior due to weather.
In response, they had quadrupled the usual flight runs to alleviate the backlog.
I came into the terminal & waited with the passenger to see if they'd actually get out today. At check-in, there was a jogger & a flatfaced fat female chink next to the desk holding clipboards that I assumed were grounds crew.
We took a seat & watched the prop planes getting loaded (small airport, board passengers directly from the tarmac).
For the next hour, we watched the inept ground crew fiddle around with the plane in front of us, taking luggage on/off the plane multiple times. Then the jogger & the frying pan chink got on the plane into the cockpit & started taxiing away. I was really hoping to see another White man actually board, but no one else ever came. These prop planes are small enough that there's not even a stewardess. The chink would've been operating as both flight attendant & first mate.
My passenger thankfully was another flight. But it was a cold dose of reality between seeing all the memes online about DEI air disasters & influencers checking for white elbows in the cockpit upon boarding. To suddenly witnessing diversity showing up at your very runway.
If anyone here still flies at all after the last five years, how many more warning signs do you need?
Unfortunately there isn't much alternative when traveling long distances. In the past people managed just fine spending their whole lives within a 7 mile radius but now everything has spread out due to the invention of trains, cars and airplanes. Sucks to be you if you have business trips or family to visit abroad.
Dropped someone off at the airport over the holidays. The little airport was in chaos because they hadn't been able to get any flights off the ground for days prior due to weather.
In response, they had quadrupled the usual flight runs to alleviate the backlog.
I came into the terminal & waited with the passenger to see if they'd actually get out today. At check-in, there was a jogger & a flatfaced fat female chink next to the desk holding clipboards that I assumed were grounds crew.
We took a seat & watched the prop planes getting loaded (small airport, board passengers directly from the tarmac).
For the next hour, we watched the inept ground crew fiddle around with the plane in front of us, taking luggage on/off the plane multiple times. Then the jogger & the frying pan chink got on the plane into the cockpit & started taxiing away. I was really hoping to see another White man actually board, but no one else ever came. These prop planes are small enough that there's not even a stewardess. The chink would've been operating as both flight attendant & first mate.
My passenger thankfully was another flight. But it was a cold dose of reality between seeing all the memes online about DEI air disasters & influencers checking for white elbows in the cockpit upon boarding. To suddenly witnessing diversity showing up at your very runway.