It started in Quito. It was a late flight, almost midnight, and the otherwise tolerable albeit corny PA announcements by the aircrew fell flat. Very flat. Then the Quito Cat Lady arrived and things got worse.
Continue reading “When Your Favorite Airline Hangs A Cat Lady Around Your Neck”
So, Kongo is presently at 35,000 feet on DL 513 from MSP to San Diego as he heads home from a week of working in New Jersey and just scored an additional 15,000 miles for being a nice little monkey and not barking back at the woman of a certain age when she started behaving like a baboon. Read on for the whole story. Continue reading “The Monkey Scores”
Early in Kongo’s blogging career he published a few posts about getting through airports and being “plane stupid” (see related articles at the end of this post). After spending several days on the road last week flying to and from Philadelphia from the West Coast, Kongo has a few additional observations about objectionable monkey behavior when traveling. Kongo realizes of course that cultured monkeys are supposed to pretend not to see bad behavior on the part of simian strangers and assume that they’re just having a bad day in the jungle. But there’s something about Spring Break in the air that amplifies bad behavior and Kongo can no longer remain silent. Please bear with him. Continue reading “Monkeys in the Air”
Atlanta-based flight attendants Alanah Keesee and Nancy Kelley showed their true colors on DL 2267 today from ATL to SAN. October is Delta’s special month to support breast cancer research and these two are some of the airline’s most super supporters. Continue reading “If they’re wearing pink it must be October”
Last week, somewhere between the Minneapolis and Dulles airports, Kongo’s mileage odometer on Delta rolled over one million miles. That’s a lot of miles for a little monkey and it came with a nice note from the pilot and a glass of champagne. Delta awards gifts for reaching this milestone and Kongo picked out a new piece of Hartman roll aboard luggage to replace his aging Coach bag which was starting to show its miles even after several overhauls at the luggage store.
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