Friday, January 6, 2012

Smoking in flight

I caught an earlier flight home. The evening flight is usually on an Airbus 319. This mid-afternoon flight was on an Embraer 170.  I noticed in the bathroom that there is an ashtray.  The plane appeared to be a newer model so having an ashtray seemed wrong. I figured there weren't any airlines that allowed smoking.

Both flight attendants were sitting on the backrow so I mentioned the oddness.  One of the flight attendants said she thought there were airlines in the East that still allowed smoking.

The same flight attendant recounted an episode just last Spring where someone locked himself in the bathroom and was smoking. He was forcefully removed by two passengers - one a pilot and one a flight controller.

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