1. It's pretty bad news for the good folk of Abiko, being as they are halfway between Narita Airport and Tokyo (a pig and a poke?) So, there're quite a few folk worried about their jobs right now.
2. But JAL had it coming for years. Our Man actually knows a JAL stewardess. Yes, she is good looking, knows how to smile and has a perfectly symmetrical face (these are the prerequisites before they let you ask "chicken or beef?" - honestly, it was on the test). When she got her first paycheck 15-odd years ago she thought they had put one zero too many on. Yep. $5,000 for a month of fluffing pillows and winking at first class passengers. And that was 15 (fifteen) years ago.
3. Then she got pregnant, so got a three-year maternity leave - on full pay.
4. Then she had a second child - another two years on full pay.
5. They say the more third world the country, the more beautiful the stewardesses.
6. The Netherlands (KLM) must be the most firstest world country EVER.
7. Our Man once drank far too much in London and took a train back to Chester but fell asleep and ended up spending the night on the uncompromising seats of Manchester Airport. They had armrests, which are great when you want to sit up and behave important, but really suck when you wanna sleep.
8. God I'm bored. Do I have to get to 10?
9. Is Go still an airline in Britain?
10. Remember TWA? They sucked too.
4 comments:
DId JAL strike anywhere near as much as BA?
they're going back out at easter.
I'm no economist, but I suspect that a fundamental part of this "healthy competition" idea is that companies actually, you know, compete. I bounce around this country a fair bit, and as far as I can tell, JAL and ANA are completely interchangeable. Same service, same routes, same price, same design. I couldn't tell you which airline I was sitting in without checking the title of the in-flight magazine.
Were JAL to disappear and ANA takes over the not-too-hopeless routes then little of value would be lost as far as us customers are concerned.
But yes, being a JAL employee has to suck right about now.
On sober reflection, methinks JAL's problems were not all the fault of my stewardess friend.
More to blame are the pols who kept insisting on building airports in their buttfuckegypt constituencies and then expecting JAL to fly empty planes there.
Of course that was OK because the government would never let JAL go bust, would it?
flying empty planes? you should get a job devising stimulus packages.
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