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Modern Air Travel Is a Zoo, and Crews Are Miserable

from A Loud Shape | The Tim Dillon Show #370 · #370

3 min

He describes how overworked, burned-out flight crews now seem to want the plane to crash amid passenger chaos, citing incidents like a British Airways crew mugged in Brazil and pilots self-medicating with drugs and alcohol between flights.

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  • Flight attendants' faces reveal they want the plane to crash due to overwork and stress.
  • Modern air travel has become a zoo because passengers are monsters and the crew deals with constant incidents.
  • British Airways crew in Brazil got mugged, spent the night drinking, and forced a flight cancellation.
  • Pilots are on continuous drug and alcohol binges between flights because flying with the American public is traumatic.
  • Tim describes passengers as disgusting, violent, drunk people fighting each other at 30,000 feet.
  • Pilots can't leave the cockpit without risking another 9/11-style hijacking attempt, so flight attendants bear the entire burden of chaos management.
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