Southwest completes first unmanned commercial flight

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
10/30/2017 at 08:59 • Filed to: Planelopnik

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DISCUSSION (41)

itschrome > ttyymmnn
10/30/2017 at 09:02

Oh boy, if it’s any thing like the road trips I have taken with car fulls of girls, I bet that plane couldn’t pass an airport with out have to stop for pee breaks..

hey OH!

random001 > ttyymmnn
10/30/2017 at 09:06

Sexist bastards!

....wait...

Party-vi > ttyymmnn
10/30/2017 at 09:08

*feels the sudden urge to explain flight to a crew of women even though they are professionals and I know nothing about flying*

Cé hé sin > ttyymmnn
10/30/2017 at 09:16

Took them long enough, didn’t it?

ttyymmnn > Party-vi
10/30/2017 at 09:17

I will say this, though: I went to a big air show yesterday and didn’t see a single woman pilot. I’m sure (at least I hope) there were some there, but I wish they had been more prominent.

ttyymmnn > Cé hé sin
10/30/2017 at 09:19

Frontier had the first all-female flight deck back in 1984.

Kinja'd!!!

Sir Halffast > ttyymmnn
10/30/2017 at 09:21

Weirdly, when I flew overseas a couple weeks ago, two of my four flights were completely un-womanned. It was very strange.

random001 > Party-vi
10/30/2017 at 09:30

Hey now, be excellent...

Party-vi > random001
10/30/2017 at 09:40

Mocking mansplaining, which my wife tells me I have the utmost annoying tendency to do. A lot.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > ttyymmnn
10/30/2017 at 09:43

Heh. I chuckled at the pun. I must be ill.

RutRut > ttyymmnn
10/30/2017 at 09:44

Disappointed, thought it would be a fully autonomous plane. ‘Twas not.

random001 > Party-vi
10/30/2017 at 09:45

I know what you were doing! You’re doing it now! You’re such a mansplainer!

I guess I do, too. I overexplain everything. I do it to everyone, though. She asked about why the Abarth was going whooshPSSSSHHHHHH when we were driving, and I asked her if she really wanted to know, she said yes, so I started at NA ICE engines and worked from there. She says I overexplained it.... But she understood it in the end!

ttyymmnn > RutRut
10/30/2017 at 09:45

Kinja'd!!!

Party-vi > random001
10/30/2017 at 09:52

I MANSPLAINED THAT I WAS MANSPLAINING how does my wife put up with me. I once got an explanation on how POP3 compares to IMAP for email protocols from my dad, which made me want to die. I guess I have the urge to spread that feeling of dread to other people by over-explaining things they never asked about.

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn
10/30/2017 at 09:58

“Ladies and gentlemen, the captain has turned off the fasten safety belts sign, but ladies: it might just be a passive-aggressive way to ensure that you are moderately injured during any clear-air turbulence we might encounter. Might. Let’s just say the captain is still wearing her belt, so, you know...whatever you want to do is fine with us. By the way, I was doing air quotes when I said ‘clear-air turbulence’ so have a nice flight. We’ll keep our hands on the control yoke just to uh...keep us safe.”

random001 > Party-vi
10/30/2017 at 10:09

Whoa, mansplainception....

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn
10/30/2017 at 10:37

Was wondering if it was an onion article, then I scrolled down.

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn
10/30/2017 at 10:38

I’m kind of surprised it took them this long, TBH. I know I’ve been on at least RJ flights with all female crews (granted that’s only 3 people in total).

WilliamsSW > Party-vi
10/30/2017 at 10:41

I’ve had my dad try to explain things about flying to me, despite the fact that I’m a pilot, and he’s not.

Of course, I inherited that gene from him...

ttyymmnn > WilliamsSW
10/30/2017 at 10:50

It’s my understanding that this was nothing more than a fluke of scheduling, and no effort on SWs part to make a statement. The first all-female flight deck, a Frontier flight in 1984, was also just a matter of schedule rotations.

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn
10/30/2017 at 10:56

I wonder if they actually have done it before and just didn’t realize it, or maybe this is just the first time on the MAX.

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > ttyymmnn
10/30/2017 at 11:04

This is one of those things I see and say “Why is this news?” not because I don’t think women should be there; but because why is anyone surprised about women being in those jobs? It’s just an unusual coincidence that ten out of ten were female. Like flipping a coin and finding ten tails out of ten.

ttyymmnn > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
10/30/2017 at 11:07

It shouldn’t be news, yet it is. We still have a very long way to go on the acceptance of many things.

ttyymmnn > WilliamsSW
10/30/2017 at 11:07

Not sure.

Hoccy > ttyymmnn
10/30/2017 at 11:11

Soo people go to work?

For Sweden > Party-vi
10/30/2017 at 11:32

um did you just mansplain mocking mansplaining?

For Sweden > ttyymmnn
10/30/2017 at 11:33

Knowing Southwest this was a pure accident of scheduling.

Party-vi > For Sweden
10/30/2017 at 11:33

If I say yes does that mean I mansplained my mansplaining about mansplaining?

For Sweden > Party-vi
10/30/2017 at 11:35

Don’t mansplain my mansplaining your mansplaining mocking mansplaining

ttyymmnn > Hoccy
10/30/2017 at 11:41

Pretty much. Can’t pass up a chance at PR, though.

shop-teacher > ttyymmnn
10/30/2017 at 11:46

“but I wish they had been more prominent.”

Me too. We need more women in high-skill jobs like this. My district is in the process of no longer making my class required for middle schoolers after this year. I am TERRIFIED that I am going to lose the girls out of my program. They’re on the whole better at shop work than the boys. More mature, and superior attention to detail. I don’t think I can handle an entire class of just middle school boys.

random001 > For Sweden
10/30/2017 at 11:53

Kinja'd!!!

ttyymmnn > shop-teacher
10/30/2017 at 12:19

I don’t think I can handle an entire class of just middle school boys.

That sounds terrifying, but a bit like my house (I’ve got a HS frosh and two 6th graders).

shop-teacher > ttyymmnn
10/30/2017 at 12:33

Now imagine 24 of them ... now imagine them in a wood shop.

ttyymmnn > shop-teacher
10/30/2017 at 12:46

Kinja'd!!!

Captain of the Enterprise > ttyymmnn
10/30/2017 at 12:55

Is it bad that I just don’t care. Personally it doesn’t matter to me at all what gender the crew. I just want a safe flight at the end of the day. I think it’s kinda sad that it’s newsworthy in 2017 but I acknowledge that I’m proveledged to be a male in our society and that not everyone thinks like I do.

shop-teacher > ttyymmnn
10/30/2017 at 13:22

YEP!

ttyymmnn > Captain of the Enterprise
10/30/2017 at 13:27

What is sad is that this is news at all. But until women are on par with men in our society, it will continue to be news.

Captain of the Enterprise > ttyymmnn
10/30/2017 at 13:30

Unfortunately I think it’s a generational thing that will get better slowly over time.

ttyymmnn > Captain of the Enterprise
10/30/2017 at 13:33

Well, let’s see. It’s been 97 years since women were given the right to vote, and they still don’t make as much money as men doing the same jobs. I hope we don’t have to wait another 97 years.

Captain of the Enterprise > ttyymmnn
10/30/2017 at 13:34

Me too!, I’m just saying social change typically doesn’t happen overnight. As much as I would like it to.