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Know, you ve got the best audience you can have. place the yellow cup over your nose and mouth, and as soon as you re done screaming, secure the mask to your face with the elastic band. unfortunately kurt s good humor can t save the airline. he and 2,200 other ata employees lose their jobs when the airline goes bankrupt in 2008. ladies and gentlemen, aloha. welcome to honolulu. once the seat belt sign is turned off, i will tell you the same thing my parents told me when i turned 18, get your stuff and get out. after more than a decade as a flight attendant, kurt is setting his sights high, training to become a pilot. my instructor s actually taken some video of me in the cockpit doing all the maneuvers and things that we do. i would like to make a video of that, and obviously it s not going to be as silly as this video because people don t want to see that in a pilot. ....
instead, he s received a lot of fan mail and compliments from frequent flyers who appreciate his humor. people don t expect you to say anything funny. and when you do say something funny, it s a surprise, and, you know, you ve got the best audience you can have. place the yellow cup over your nose and mouth, and as soon as you re done screaming, secure the mask to your face with the elastic band. unfortunately kurt s good humor can t save the airline. he and 2,200 other ata employees lose their jobs when the airline goes bankrupt in 2008. ladies and gentlemen, aloha. welcome to honolulu. once the seat belt sign is turned off, i will tell you the same thing my parents told me when i turned 18, get your stuff ....
And get out. after more than a decade as a flight attendant, kurt is setting his sights high, training to become a pilot. my instructor s actually taken some video of me in the cockpit doing all the maneuvers and things that we do. i would like to make a video of that, and obviously it s not going to be as silly as this video because people don t want to see that in a pilot. not all flight attendants approach work with the same gusto. this next story takes a look at one who might want to consider a career change. imagine learning that your flight attendant is acting so drunk she has to be hauled off the plane and is sent to jail for belligerent behavior like you see here. i don t like you! i want to go home. that was my [ bleep ] i.d. you re arrested i m in jail. that s what happens on august 5th, 2007, at lexington, kentucky s, bluegrass airport. 26-year-old sarah mills is the only flight attendant scheduled on an atlantic southeast airlines flight bound for atlanta, b ....
it hurts my ears. i don t want you know, people don t want to feel like they re a herd of cattle. people want to be talked to. kurt delivers his announcements with a humorous twist meant to entertain passengers. oxygen will flow at a rate of $2 for the first minute and then 99 cents for each additional minute. if you re traveling with more than one child, now is a good time to pick your favorite. he is definitely trying to make you laugh, but this flight attendant does take his job seriously. we re trained to be firefighters, we re trained to do cpr, we re trained to use the defibrillator. people don t realize that. but we re really there for your safety. kurt works for ata airlines, and his most popular route is phoenix to hawaii. long five-, six-hour flights. videotaping his announcements proves to be a fun distraction. someone is in the lavatory. this is the lavatory police. come out with your pants up. kurt s antics enliven the flight for the whole crew. their n ....
And my name is kurt, and i am the man. when he can t man the camera, he gets other flight attendants and staff to take over. the result is a video journal of kurt s greatest hits, captured during hundreds of his round trips to hawaii, and then he posts them on his myspace page. okay. you people are not listening. i can tell that. i could be doing this whole thing in chinese, and no one would even know. kurt s funny rants started in part from frustration that passengers ignored him. now they re making him an online star. he s attracting thousands of hits on the internet. then we re going to dim the cabin lights because it makes the flight attendants look nicer. kurt s encouraged by the positive feedback, but he insists the announcements are all in the line of duty. in 14 years of doing those announcements, nobody ever said, kurt, we don t like that, you shouldn t be doing it. ....