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A (deadheading) flight attendant on that flight is now suing Delta for $75 million; that’s gotta make things a little uncomfortable at work.
Did she miss her connecting flight?
After her the plane she was “crash-landed, flipped over multiple times, and partially burst into flames while landing”, yes, she probably did miss her next flight.
Yah think?
This is utter MPSIMS, but my god.
The acronyn “PAX” used to mean, back in the good old days, “passengers (approximate)”, a leftover from when it was hard to get immeditate answers during a shipwreck.
Now it is the bastardised “passengers” so we have no idea of the accuracy. My friend does tandem paragliding. He uses PAX. For fucksake, you either have a tandem paragliding passenger, right there in front of you, or you do not.
No “approx” there.
Now it means… passengers.
Interesting. I had never, ever heard of the “passengers (approximate)” origin before. Not disputing you, just surprised.
I don’t buy it myself, but would be happy to be proven wrong. Because “pax” as an abbreviated way of speaking seems quite natural. “Passengers (approximate)” seems like an attempt at a backronym.
Is this the only place in the world that could have a fight over what “pax” means?
The industry also has a standard term “fax” meaning all the auxiliary facts (get it?) stored in a PNR, a Passenger Name Record. Such as passenger(s) name(s), phone number, passport number, credit card number, etc. Everything beyond just which flights this booking pertains to are “fax”. Which term dates from the 1960s, long before telefacsimile machines became popular.
There’s also FLIFO. Which stands for Flight Info. And means essentially arrival and departure times and gate info if available. The info you get now by typing “UAL 123” into Google? That’s modern FLIFO. The process was more laborious in 1962, but the term FLIFO was / is still used.
There are a lot more ancient terms of art in the airline reservations and passenger operations business. Using “x” as a plural-form contraction is totally in keeping with other industry terms from Ye Ancient Ages of Yore when every keystroke and every byte counted on the primitive teletype networks of the day.
You have to take into account the passengers in steerage.
Like this?
I was thinking of wheel well seating. They never get counted.
Are conjoined twins counted as one or two passengers? Do they each need a separate ticket even if they occupy one seat?
I remember my dad telling me the acronym for a quick turnaround from one flight to another was BOBOB.
Bodies Off, Bodies On, and Boogie