I flew from Clearwater/St. Pete, FL up to Traverse City , MI last week to visit relatives. The flight going up was fine, we were delayed leaving because of lightning, but not Allegiant's fault.
The flight coming home was not good! After being delayed about 25 minutes, we finally got on the plane and the flight attendant made the usual speech about "Welcome to Allegiant, blah, blah, blah. IF THERE'S ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO MAKE YOUR FLIGHT MORE COMFORTABLE, PLEASE ASK ONE OF YOUR FLIGHT ATTENDANTS!"
So, I asked the nearest flight attendant who was walking towards me down the aisle, "Excuse me, what time will we arrive in Clearwater?" (so I could call my ride and let them know!) The flight attendant (Cynthia) snapped back at me "I'M COUNTING!!!"
Well, excuse ME! I had no idea she was SILENTLY COUNTING TO HERSELF!!! Her colleague just announced over the P.A. system "IF THERE'S ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO MAKE YOUR FLIGHT MORE COMFORTABLE, PLEASE ASK ONE OF YOUR FLIGHT ATTENDANTS!"
Maybe CYNTHIA didn't hear this. Maybe CYNTHIA was having a bad day. Maybe CYNTHIA just had a fight with her boyfriend/husband/whatever. Maybe CYNTHIA wasn't feeling well. MAYBE CYNTHIA SHOULDN'T BE WORKING IN CUSTOMER SERVICE!!!
So I asked a different flight attendant "Excuse me, what time will we arrive in Clearwater?" and she politely said "2 hours and 47 minutes, I'll have to calculate what time that is.", and she walked away. Never coming back to tell me, her customer, what ACTUAL TIME we would be landing. Now I know I can figure out the time, but this just shows the COMPLETE LACK OF CUSTOMER SERVICE AT Allegiant Airlines!
The pilot never came on the P.A. and made the customary speech about when we would arrive, weather conditions, sit back and enjoy, blah, blah, blah.
About 1 hour into the flight, flight attendant CYNTHIA came up to the front of the plane to heat up some food (which smelled VILE!!!) and as she walked past me she stopped and said "Excuse me, what are listening to?"
I said "It's a radio" (I was using earbuds, not disturbing anybody)
CYNTHIA said " I don't FEEL COMFORTABLE with you using that, please put it away!"
I said "It's just an AM/FM radio."
CYNTHIA parroted the line "Well, it's possible that it could INTERFERE with the planes navigation system, so I need you to stop using it."
I turned off the radio and said " It's only a receiver, it can't interfere with anything."
CYNTHIA again told me it made HER UNCOMFORTABLE.
I put the little AM/FM radio away and said "I guess you're mad because I asked you what time we would be arriving in Clearwater."
CYNTHIA said ,"Well, I WAS COUNTING!"
I said "Well, I guess you're getting even with me for asking."
CYNTHIA smiled an evil smile and said "No sir, that's not it." and she walked away to eat her food.
AM/FM radio signals would make the sky glow if human beings could see them. There are THOUSANDS of AM/FM radio stations across America and the world. THEY DO NOT INTERFERE WITH AIRLINE NAVIGATION!!!
THEY DO NOT INTERFERE WITH AIRLINE NAVIGATION!!!
These signals are in the air 24 hours per day, 365 days a year, WETHER I AM LISTENING TO THEM OR NOT!!!
My little Radio Shack AM/FM pocket radio does not, CAN NOT, BROADCAST OR CREATE ANY TYPE OF RADIO SIGNAL!!!
However, the old lady sitting in the same row as me who kept trying to get a cell phone signal so she could SEND, i.e. TRANSMIT the pictures she was taking out the window to her son, THAT DID NOT BOTHER CYNTHIA AT ALL!!!
If Allegiant's flight attendants are so ignorant that they don't know this (Cynthia in particular!!!) then maybe they should not be empowered to enforce safety rules that THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND!!!
So CYNTHIA is a power hungry B****h, who likes to bully people (maybe men in particular) on her flights to and from St. Pete.
Maybe she is an unhappy person, maybe her man mis-treats her at home so she takes it out on other men she sees. Maybe she just shouldn't work with the public. But she ruined my experience on Allegiant and I will be posting this everywhere possible on the internet.
Also, the captain had the SEATBELT light on for almost the entire 3 hour flight. But yet the flight attendants were up and walking. Sometimes selling drinks and snacks, sometimes just wandering around chatting with each other. It seems to me that it is either SAFE or UNSAFE to be unbuckled and moving around for both the customers and flight attendants. read more