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I used to be a flight Attendant and now I'm a travel coordinator. Please share you crazy travel stories!!??

I used to be a flight attendant and now I'm a travel coordinator. I love the travel industry but man do you run into some crazy fools and situations!! From having a drunk navy guy trying to open my emergency exit door to, a woman calling about her husbands flight information and realizing the second passenger wasnt her but his mistress!

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1. Here's one I posted on another question, but I think it's still funny. Ok here goes. When I was a gate agent working international flights, I was working one of our alliance partner's flights (we provided the ground handling kind of like a contract type thing). It was me, two other agents working the counter, two more agents to board the flight, and a supervisor from the other airline. This guy came to check in and handed one of the agents his boarding pass. As he did, he fell and hit his head on the podium. He immediately got up and had a gash on his forehead. But he felt no pain, as he was plastered. He got back up, tried in his "drunk-speak" to say he was okay...and fell again!! At that point, the gate agent in charge of the flight told him to go sit down. Of course he was immediately denied boarding by the airline's supervisor. Surprisingly he made it to the chairs without falling again. There he sat as everyone else boarded. Near the end of the boarding process, he got up to board. The agent who told him to sit in the first place, told him to sit down again. He sat down. He slurred something about needing to get on the flight. The supervisor said he wasn't going. Because the guy was so out of it, he just said ok. A few minutes later he tried to get up again. At that point the agent went into her "mother mode" and yelled at him, "I said sit down NOW!!!!" He sat back down and looked just like a little kid. The flight pushed back and the boarding agents came back off the jetway. One of them who was oblivious as to what had happened earlier, asks the guy, "Sir, were you going to (city)?" The passenger says (as he's sitting in the dark because we turned the gate's lights off),"Yeah, is it still here?" The airline's supervisor said to the agent, "Don't tease the monkey!!" All of us at that point who had watched him all night broke up. The guy got up and started walking toward us. The "mother agent" said again, "Sit down and don't move." He said, "Yes ma'am I will" just like he was talking to his mom. It was the funniest thing to see. So we called for a wheelchair to take him out to the front of the airport. While the agent who called was on the phone, I told her, "Don't tell them he's drunk. They'll never come." So we waited a few minutes and here came the wheelchair. A couple of us pointed and said, "There he is. Oh and he's drunk." The wheelchair pusher looked at us like, "Oh Sh--." We told the passenger he was going to the front of the airport and he got in the chair. One of us told the wheelchair pusher to just take him to the area between the two ticket counters where there were couches and chairs. As he was being taken away, he looked up at the wheelchair pusher and said, "Dude...I'm wasted!!!!" We all cracked up and I'm sure you heard our laughter down the hallway.
2. I do corporate travel management and people get just as silly. My favorite was several years ago when I was in Connecticut working for a large insurance company: HIM: Hi, I need to travel London. ME: Okay, well you'll have to connect in either New York or Boston. Do you have a preference? HIM:Oh, I'm not going to fly. ME: Ummm, okay, how were you planning on getting there? HIM: I'm going to take the train. ME: Sir, you can't take the train to England. HIM: Yes, I can. They just built that new "Chunnel". ME: Well, the Chunnel runs between France and England. HIM: Well, duh! Put me on the train to France, then.