Ah, the holidays............ I had to drop an aircraft in Antigua, Guatemala. We had to commercial back. Our flight was to leave at 3 PM. It was delayed due to deicing. 2 hours. we board. ATC delays. 3 hours - flight attendants do not care. They gave me a customs form to fill out, they would not give out a pen. I asked what I should do, they said "that is not my problem" the aircraft was 30 percent full. There was paper all over the floor, they no longer service the lavatory, once in the AM and that is it - nice.
They gave us a steaming strange sandwich. unidentifiable, I was going to get CSI on it. They woke me up to prove i had my seatbelt on. They ran out of headsets. the coffee was really old. another 2 hour delay into Newark, NJ - no explanation. But I could see that the flaps were not coming down. nice. Then no gate , then we had to get towed in.
When I fly commercial, I should charge a fright fee when freelanced. I fell I am in a communist country and have no rights as a citizen. So what would have taken us 4.5 hours, took 9 hours. Will the owners who are selling, losing their jets be up to this task?
On a side note: Thanks for all your support this year and I wish each and every one of you a Happy Holidays.
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Ms. Betsy Dwyer started here aviation career in 1983 working with the specialized unit that transports the President and the Vice President of the United States as a flight attendant until her departure in 1990. She was hired by Wayfarer Aviation in White Plains and assigned to the CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank for 6 years. After leaving Wayfarer she became the Catering Director for Christopher Martins in New Haven CT for 2 years, than was hired by Cesar Pelli to do Private Chef Work for their office also in CT. Betsy wanted to return to flying and was hired by Jet Aviation Business Jets as the Director of Cabin Services for the Private Charter operations from 1997 to 2004 when the company decided to downsize their fleet. For the last four years she has been working for the CEO of General Maritime Corporation onboard a Falcon 2000EX plane based in Oxford CT. Betsy’s continued education has given her a BA in Journalism (Southern Connecticut State University) as well a BA in Business (University of New Ha
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