Airport gate agents & carry ons

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Flight attendants and gate attendants definitely treat white women worse than white men. My friends and I have exchanged numerous stories like the ones above.

I am specifying race because I don’t know how it plays out with different races

I’m the FA PP from upthread, and I couldn’t disagree more. I can’t speak for gate agents, but I have so many female and gay coworkers who go out of their way to deliberately screw with business men, in particular, because they are so self-important, and who are quite protective of solo women travelers.

Sorry, FA pp, but while you and your friends may be all about “girl power” it’s simply not the experience for most of us female frequent fliers, who are regularly expected to be more accommodating and blatantly given inferior treatment to men flying in the same class of service.

Just look at the incident that went viral when the pregnant wife of a pro baseball player was told by the flight attendants she needed to get on the ground to clean up all the popcorn her child spilled on a flight. Whether you want to characterize her as entitled or not, do you really think if it was a man traveling alone with a child they would have treated him the same way?

I mean, you’re only seeing a small sample that the media wants you to see. I fly sometimes 3-4 legs, 3-5 days a week. I can tell you FAs loathe the d*cky business man, or any man who is being a problem, child or not. People are so unbelievably entitled.

You can't treat someone unfairly/differently and then call them "d*cky" for objecting to the unfair treatment. This goes for any race or gender. People are allowed to point out disparate treatment. A power-tripping FA got really irate at my husband this weekend for (politely) objecting to his soft-sided bag being removed from the overhead bin in favor of a hard-sided bag belonging to someone who boarded very late. My husband ultimately prevailed, but not before the FA tried to bully and threaten him.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's feel your pain OP. We fly a lot. I think women do get treated a lot worse then men when flying. I have a theory. Many of the flight attendants were raised in blue collar or lower class homes where men ruled. They are used to cowtowing to men. Many never went to college...so are not that bright.

We have a rule when flying .." No eye contact" with agents and we act like we don't speak English.

I shouldn’t even touch this because I know that’s what you want. But, speaking of “not that bright”, you are so grossly uninformed. Maybe do some basic googling before you post and make YOURSELF sound not that bright.

Guessing you don't fly much and never went to college. Try googling yourself. Only about 12.5% of flight attendants have Bachelor Degrees...so not that bright.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's feel your pain OP. We fly a lot. I think women do get treated a lot worse then men when flying. I have a theory. Many of the flight attendants were raised in blue collar or lower class homes where men ruled. They are used to cowtowing to men. Many never went to college...so are not that bright.

We have a rule when flying .." No eye contact" with agents and we act like we don't speak English.

Can you cite your source?
I shouldn’t even touch this because I know that’s what you want. But, speaking of “not that bright”, you are so grossly uninformed. Maybe do some basic googling before you post and make YOURSELF sound not that bright.

Guessing you don't fly much and never went to college. Try googling yourself. Only about 12.5% of flight attendants have Bachelor Degrees...so not that bright.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's feel your pain OP. We fly a lot. I think women do get treated a lot worse then men when flying. I have a theory. Many of the flight attendants were raised in blue collar or lower class homes where men ruled. They are used to cowtowing to men. Many never went to college...so are not that bright.

We have a rule when flying .." No eye contact" with agents and we act like we don't speak English.

I shouldn’t even touch this because I know that’s what you want. But, speaking of “not that bright”, you are so grossly uninformed. Maybe do some basic googling before you post and make YOURSELF sound not that bright.

Guessing you don't fly much and never went to college. Try googling yourself. Only about 12.5% of flight attendants have Bachelor Degrees...so not that bright.

They're the waitresses of the sky seeing the world one airport hotel at a time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's feel your pain OP. We fly a lot. I think women do get treated a lot worse then men when flying. I have a theory. Many of the flight attendants were raised in blue collar or lower class homes where men ruled. They are used to cowtowing to men. Many never went to college...so are not that bright.

We have a rule when flying .." No eye contact" with agents and we act like we don't speak English.

I shouldn’t even touch this because I know that’s what you want. But, speaking of “not that bright”, you are so grossly uninformed. Maybe do some basic googling before you post and make YOURSELF sound not that bright.

Guessing you don't fly much and never went to college. Try googling yourself. Only about 12.5% of flight attendants have Bachelor Degrees...so not that bright.

Can you cite your source?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's feel your pain OP. We fly a lot. I think women do get treated a lot worse then men when flying. I have a theory. Many of the flight attendants were raised in blue collar or lower class homes where men ruled. They are used to cowtowing to men. Many never went to college...so are not that bright.

We have a rule when flying .." No eye contact" with agents and we act like we don't speak English.

I shouldn’t even touch this because I know that’s what you want. But, speaking of “not that bright”, you are so grossly uninformed. Maybe do some basic googling before you post and make YOURSELF sound not that bright.

Guessing you don't fly much and never went to college. Try googling yourself. Only about 12.5% of flight attendants have Bachelor Degrees...so not that bright.

They're the waitresses of the sky seeing the world one airport hotel at a time

And you wonder why we have such contempt for pax!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's feel your pain OP. We fly a lot. I think women do get treated a lot worse then men when flying. I have a theory. Many of the flight attendants were raised in blue collar or lower class homes where men ruled. They are used to cowtowing to men. Many never went to college...so are not that bright.

We have a rule when flying .." No eye contact" with agents and we act like we don't speak English.

I shouldn’t even touch this because I know that’s what you want. But, speaking of “not that bright”, you are so grossly uninformed. Maybe do some basic googling before you post and make YOURSELF sound not that bright.

Guessing you don't fly much and never went to college. Try googling yourself. Only about 12.5% of flight attendants have Bachelor Degrees...so not that bright.

Can you cite your source?

Google is your friend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's feel your pain OP. We fly a lot. I think women do get treated a lot worse then men when flying. I have a theory. Many of the flight attendants were raised in blue collar or lower class homes where men ruled. They are used to cowtowing to men. Many never went to college...so are not that bright.

We have a rule when flying .." No eye contact" with agents and we act like we don't speak English.

I shouldn’t even touch this because I know that’s what you want. But, speaking of “not that bright”, you are so grossly uninformed. Maybe do some basic googling before you post and make YOURSELF sound not that bright.

Guessing you don't fly much and never went to college. Try googling yourself. Only about 12.5% of flight attendants have Bachelor Degrees...so not that bright.

Can you cite your source?

Everyone knows hot but not smart women become flight attendants and real estate agents.

[Anonymous]

The cynicism and combativeness toward flight attendants in this thread makes it hard to believe this is simply a matter of systemic discrimination embedded in the airline service industry.

People can usually tell an a**hole when they see one; this is especially true for service industry workers. And, hear me out. It's possible, you just might be an a**hole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's feel your pain OP. We fly a lot. I think women do get treated a lot worse then men when flying. I have a theory. Many of the flight attendants were raised in blue collar or lower class homes where men ruled. They are used to cowtowing to men. Many never went to college...so are not that bright.

We have a rule when flying .." No eye contact" with agents and we act like we don't speak English.

I shouldn’t even touch this because I know that’s what you want. But, speaking of “not that bright”, you are so grossly uninformed. Maybe do some basic googling before you post and make YOURSELF sound not that bright.

Guessing you don't fly much and never went to college. Try googling yourself. Only about 12.5% of flight attendants have Bachelor Degrees...so not that bright.

Can you cite your source?

Google is your friend.

You’re so smart and I’m so stupid! If you can’t cite it, I tend to believe it doesn’t exist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The cynicism and combativeness toward flight attendants in this thread makes it hard to believe this is simply a matter of systemic discrimination embedded in the airline service industry.

People can usually tell an a**hole when they see one; this is especially true for service industry workers. And, hear me out. It's possible, you just might be an a**hole.

Thank you, PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The cynicism and combativeness toward flight attendants in this thread makes it hard to believe this is simply a matter of systemic discrimination embedded in the airline service industry.

People can usually tell an a**hole when they see one; this is especially true for service industry workers. And, hear me out. It's possible, you just might be an a**hole.

Seems like you would know. Start treating people better.

[Anonymous]

I fly all the time (United 1K) and am also a petite (although not as petite as the OP) female, and haven't run into this issue. I would print the luggage specifications and whatever you can find from the Briggs and Riley website that says that this is an appropriate sized carryon. I've had issues with gate agents questioning my visas when I fly internationally and I find that showing people a piece of paper makes them calm down and lets me move on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's feel your pain OP. We fly a lot. I think women do get treated a lot worse then men when flying. I have a theory. Many of the flight attendants were raised in blue collar or lower class homes where men ruled. They are used to cowtowing to men. Many never went to college...so are not that bright.

We have a rule when flying .." No eye contact" with agents and we act like we don't speak English.

I shouldn’t even touch this because I know that’s what you want. But, speaking of “not that bright”, you are so grossly uninformed. Maybe do some basic googling before you post and make YOURSELF sound not that bright.

Guessing you don't fly much and never went to college. Try googling yourself. Only about 12.5% of flight attendants have Bachelor Degrees...so not that bright.

Can you cite your source?

Google is your friend.

You’re so smart and I’m so stupid! If you can’t cite it, I tend to believe it doesn’t exist.

Lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The cynicism and combativeness toward flight attendants in this thread makes it hard to believe this is simply a matter of systemic discrimination embedded in the airline service industry.

People can usually tell an a**hole when they see one; this is especially true for service industry workers. And, hear me out. It's possible, you just might be an a**hole.

Seems like you would know. Start treating people better.

Exactly! The only worse/ruder flight attendants than those with US Airlines are those with Air Canada. I have found those in European countries to be more helpful/ kinder.