Shhh, don't tell anyone
If a terrible panic assails you every time you step into the airport and fear grows as takeoff time approaches , do not continue reading. If, on the other hand, you are one of those who still trust that the plane is the safest means of transport, regardless of who weighs you, then go ahead . Although, yes, your perception of airplanes may change. Not because of us, but because airline workers have decided to bring to light certain secrets that are hidden behind the impeccable friendliness of the crew. Some you will like and others not so much.
For example, if we review the reddit thread where the employees of some flight companies have recorded the tricks that they use, it may relax you to know that the pilot and co-pilot must always eat different meals. It's more, they are forbidden to taste the food of both their companions and passengers . In this way, they prevent possible food poisoning from attacking them at the same time and making them unwilling to maneuver several hundred meters high. A measure, without a doubt, successful.
What do stewardesses do when we don't see them?
On the contrary, surely you do not think the same about what happens with the containers where they transport the coffee that, on some occasion, you have surely had on board. As they say, it's been a long time since they were last seen clean . If one day you ordered a coffee and, immediately afterwards, you felt an urgent need to go to the bathroom, it was not the fault of the nerves or the sandwich you had on land.
Something similar happens with the headphones that they lend to their passengers so that, during the trip, they can listen to the audio of a movie or the background music that the plane incorporates. As the employees of these companies tell us, those same helmets they could have passed through some other ear before ending up in ours . In this case, looks can be deceiving, and even though they look brand new, they were just carefully cleaned and repackaged to look fresh from the factory.
"Should I serve you a coffee? It maintains a unique flavor, the same since 1980..."
Certain dirty rags that have been aired by the employees of these companies simply lead us to corroborate what we all knew. It was an open secret that, as some crew members say, there are airlines that cheat with schedules . We have all seen on some occasion how the flight time indicated to us was two and a half hours when the pilot had only needed two hours to reach the destination airport. They extend the margin in order to convey the image that they always meet the scheduled time.
“ No, it's not your imagination : Airlines have really adjusted their flight arrival times so that they can have a better on-time arrival record,” says an AirTran Airways airline pilot, to record this practice.
"When no one sees me, I can be or not see"
Another myth that, from time to time, the passengers of the airplanes heard, there are also those who have corroborated it on Reddit, taking advantage of the anonymity that the internet provides. “Almost every commercial flight…has a dead body on board. Possibly two, if you're in a wide-body plane." pointed out one of the participants in the conversation . Although these passengers do not make any noise, the most superstitious would prefer not to travel with someone who has already set sail for eternal life.
As a result of this tendency of some employees to share with the world the secrets that their companies tried to keep hidden, there are those who have taken the opportunity to gather information and, incidentally, make things even more difficult for those who are terrified of getting on a plane. A fact that, almost certainly, they would never want to know is the percentage of emergency landings that occur. Apparently, there are more than we might think.
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