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Re: Icelandair letting go its flight attendants and shifting their duties to pilots

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Post by asutekku » Sun, Jul 19, 2020, 3:06 PM UTC

capableweb wrote: post #63

thg wrote: post #58

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It's a rather demeaning term and means "meat devourer" or "meat muncher" (loosely translated).

That doesn't seem to be accurate. First, Eskimos and Inuits are not necessarily referring to the same people, and Eskimo seems to come from Algonquian and means "snowshoe-netter" or "to net snowshoes", at least as far as I gather from some quick searching.

If you would’ve read the whole NPR article, you would’ve realized that the “snowshoe-netter” is relatively new theory and does not suddenly remove the racist connotations the word itself used to have.

Re: Icelandair letting go its flight attendants and shifting their duties to pilots

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Post by selimthegrim » Sun, Jul 19, 2020, 3:24 PM UTC

jlg23 wrote: post #59

cam_l wrote: post #31

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I remember the first time I flew in the mid eighties. The plane was a twelve seater, the pilot asked for one of the passengers to sit up front and 'be' the copilot. When it came time to hand out the refreshments, he would get the copilot to pull drinks out of the eski, and pitch the plane up so they could roll the drinks down the aisle.

Five years ago, in between the Guyanas, also a 12 seater: My lighter gets confiscated by security, while all other passengers put their handguns and magazines into ziplock bags, which are thrown into a postbag, which ends up, open, next to the pilot, just in front of me. During take-off the pilot lights a cigarette for himself, passes me the lighter with the word "open the window, please".

Please let it be a gun shaped lighter.

Re: Icelandair letting go its flight attendants and shifting their duties to pilots

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Post by runarberg » Sun, Jul 19, 2020, 4:33 PM UTC

centimeter wrote: post #39

tricolon wrote: post #36

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eski?

Esky - it's a brand of cooler. Or just a generic term for "eskimo cooler".

yuk, that sounds racist.

Re: Icelandair letting go its flight attendants and shifting their duties to pilots

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Post by tomjakubowski » Sun, Jul 19, 2020, 4:51 PM UTC

WildGreenLeave wrote: post #52

Waterfall wrote: post #46

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What do you mean? I remember the pre 9/11 days, and they were fun. I was a kid that would sit with the pilots on the jumbo jets and take pictures with them and the flight attendants, who would give me extra tomato juice. Didn't happen after 9/11 though.

When I was young (before 9/11, I was 12 or so) the pilot crew of my EasyJet flight from Amsterdam to Geneva invited me to the cockpit to see. I was flying with my grandma and it was my first flight ever. I love flying and the machines, being in the cockpit as a 12 year old boy was so staggering and inmense. Then I didn't fly for years, and about a year ago (while being 24) I started traveling more. Suddenly while bei…

9/11 was almost nineteen years ago now, so you'd have been much younger than twelve for your copiloting experience.

Re: Icelandair letting go its flight attendants and shifting their duties to pilots

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Post by BrandoElFollito » Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 2:01 PM UTC

Stories like this one remind me how flying was diffrent when I was a kid in the 70-80's.

It was better, except for the cigarettes smoke which was supposed to miracously dissapea between rows 15 and 16.

And the price, it was way more expensive.

Beside that: light to no security, real food, a sense of excitement. A flight was something a kud remembered for a long time (I still do, after 40 years).

My teenage children, after 50 flights, treat this as an extended and cumbersome bus ride.