Just flew in from San Juan P.R., it was ...interesting.

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Just flew in from San Juan P.R., it was ...interesting.

Posted: 10/27/2010 3:33:37 PM EDT

First of all in the airport I was shocked to see people actually arguing with the TSA personal, I saw about 10 people talking back and getting into a yelling match (in spanish) with them, the TSA personal yelled back and then they let them pass.

Then on the plane it was like a celebration, 300 people, and 200 were yelling and having a grand ol' time. Kids running up and down the isles, jumping in seats and yelling at the top of their lungs (then blood curdling screams when the parents attempt to restrain them...parents just gave up and the running continues).
One little girl I saw drink 3 sodas and a bunch of candy, her central nervous system was literally trying to tear its self out of her body. She was screaming and kicking the seat in front of her full force force,(the mom kept smacking her in the leg, putting her seatbelt back on and telling her to stop, then the mom would turn back around and talk to her friend again and it would start back up), her body was convulsing in a sugar rush...then she ran down the isle and began hitting every passenger she went past on the arm. By this time the mom had given up and just ignored it all until the flight attendant brought her back before landing time.

There was the obligatory, 4 or 5 screaming crying babys randomly spaced throughout the plane.

During this whole debacle there was a street festival atmosphere going on in the plane, people talking, yelling, laughing, drinking and carrying on for the whole flight.

The odd thing was when we landed the whole plane erupted into clapping and yelling and cheering. I had never seen anything like it before.

Posted: 10/27/2010 3:37:28 PM EDT

[#1]

What the fuck?? lol

Posted: 10/27/2010 3:39:38 PM EDT

[#2]

pure oxygen is a hell of a drug

Posted: 10/27/2010 3:39:45 PM EDT

[#3]

Interesting, as long as you don't have a headache.

Posted: 10/27/2010 3:41:20 PM EDT

[#4]

Sound like a bus in Latin America. Did you see any livestock? Chickens etc?

Posted: 10/27/2010 3:45:06 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
Interesting, as long as you don't have a headache.

I am on Tramadol, it makes me drowsy so every little while I would nod off and start a little sort of "opium dream" then get woken up to a screech, yell, laugh, holler, scream or cheer. It only happened about 50 times...

Posted: 10/27/2010 3:46:24 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Sound like a bus in Latin America. Did you see any livestock? Chickens etc?

They were on the roof of the plane, along with the other 250 passengers...

Posted: 10/27/2010 3:46:54 PM EDT

[#7]

This is pretty much mass at my catholic church during Spanish service.

same with the all only spanish classes.

Posted: 10/27/2010 3:47:34 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Sound like a bus in Latin America. Did you see any livestock? Chickens etc?

It was an AirBUS

(320) and it did start out in Latin America...you may be on to something here.

A couple lap dogs, do they count?

Posted: 10/27/2010 3:51:24 PM EDT

[#9]

Yeap, they always celebrate the landing with applause and cheers !!!

Posted: 10/27/2010 3:54:40 PM EDT

[#10]

I used to travel into Hartford Bradley Airport quite regularly in the 1990s, and my arrival there often coincided with the arrival of a flight from San Juan, PR.

Your description is an accurate one.

Posted: 10/27/2010 3:55:36 PM EDT

[#11]

Sounds like quite the festival.

Posted: 10/27/2010 3:56:56 PM EDT

[#12]

I'm married to a Puerto Rican. Sounds like an average day at the in-law's house.

Posted: 10/27/2010 3:58:18 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
Sounds like quite the festival.

Festivus?

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:02:09 PM EDT

[#14]

I've been to PR. I clapped too when I got back to the First World.

Which airline?
John

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:02:14 PM EDT

[#15]

How about the part when you're passed all the security and they start boarding the plane and you walk past where they scan your ticket,
torward the airway (boarding ramp) and two Boarder Patrol guys pop up out of a corner you didn't even know was there and ask you
in SPANISH what country were you born in!?! I just started reaching for the exterior pocket on my back-pack for our (me & Dad)
magic Blue Passports and he says, this time in english, "no, no, what city were you born in?". "New York, I was born in New York."

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:04:20 PM EDT

[#16]

Yep, they're a scrappy bunch of folks! Back in the 80's I did a bunch of business in San Juan so I've done that San Juan to Miami flight many times. Somehow it kinda' always put me in a good mood.

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:04:28 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:

Yeap, they always celebrate the landing with applause and cheers !!!

THIS. I witnessed the same thing on my trip to PR. You'd have thunk their team just won the world series...and all the pilots did was land the damn plane.

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:08:39 PM EDT

[#18]

Did you visit the Black Angus?

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:11:11 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
Did you visit the Black Angus?

I love that place!!!

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:12:10 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Sounds like quite the festival.

Festivus?

For the rest of us?

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:13:26 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Did you visit the Black Angus?

I love that place!!!

No, I came from the Carribean, PR was just a stop on the way.

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:19:25 PM EDT

[#22]

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:20:06 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:

pure oxygen is a hell of a drug

This is Captain Buzzkill speaking, the oxygen breathed on the aircraft is your standard 29/70/1 mix of oxygen, nitrogen, and trace gasses pressurized to approximately 8,000 feet msl.

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:20:34 PM EDT

[#24]

I managed a project there for a year. Aint it fun.

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:20:56 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Did you visit the Black Angus?

I love that place!!!

No, I came from the Carribean, PR was just a stop on the way.

It's a strip joint, what's not to love.

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:20:58 PM EDT

[#26]

Oh, the other funny thing was the seatback situation. while on tarmac half the people put their seat back...then before take off flight attendant comes through and tells everyone to raise seatbacks to the upright position, nobody does so they have to tell each person individualy.
As soon as we beging to take off and the pilot calls all the flight attendants to take their seats....boom all the seatbacks go back

.

It was the same thing with cell phones, flight attendants tell everyone to turn them off....but people were calling and saying "we are taaaaaaakkkkkking offfffffff" as the plane lifted off the ground.

It was like a battle to see who could be the one to make the first phone call as the plane was landing, everyone was calling and saying "weeeee arrrr lanndddiiiinnnggggg" before the wheels were even down. I guess they had to make the call first so that their friends and family could hear the celebration upon touchdown.

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:22:27 PM EDT

[#27]

We should all have such a lust for life that something as simple as a plane ride becomes the excuse for a celebration. Sounds like fun!

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:23:41 PM EDT

[#28]

Sounds like a better flight then I've ever had. You should have had a couple of drinks and joined the party.

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:25:25 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
Sounds like a better flight then I've ever had. You should have had a couple of drinks and joined the party.

Not a good idea...I am on drugs and I get all woozy. I have to drive from airport home and its about a hour drive through deer country.

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:27:18 PM EDT

[#30]

so what you're saying is, if I ever get the crazy idea to visit PR I should take a private charter plane?

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:28:04 PM EDT

[#31]

What happens in Puerto Rico, continues to happen on the plane leaving Puerto Rico.

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:29:15 PM EDT

[#32]

What, no goats or chickens?

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:29:39 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
We should all have such a lust for life that something as simple as a plane ride becomes the excuse for a celebration. Sounds like fun!

I've had landings that were cause for celebration and reflection upon my life. I'll take mundane ones from here on out.

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:30:12 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Did you visit the Black Angus?

I love that place!!!

No, I came from the Carribean, PR was just a stop on the way.

It's a strip joint, what's not to love.

I only went once. I was at RR for a few days and some of the local Marines took me to San Juan. We went to a couple of places and the Black Angus was one of them. Damn, that was a crazy night.

I'm much too old for that these days.

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:37:56 PM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Did you visit the Black Angus?

I love that place!!!

No, I came from the Carribean, PR was just a stop on the way.

It's a strip joint, what's not to love.

I only went once. I was at RR for a few days and some of the local Marines took me to San Juan. We went to a couple of places and the Black Angus was one of them. Damn, that was a crazy night.

I'm much too old for that these days.

Yeah, I can imagine. PR girls are often very hot, and sexy (they also know how to fuck like a beast). I would imagine their strippers, skanks and whores are at the very top of their game.

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:39:22 PM EDT

[#36]

Went on a royal C arribean cruise for 4 days, out of San Juan....
.. mostly locals on the boat, great bunch of fun.... lots of youngsters, teenagers, a couple wedding parties, about 2000 folks, drinkin, partying all night, hot tubbing, dancing, karaoke, etc....
much giggling, strutting, groping, making out, ...
clapping, cheering, shouting, drunken bufoonery and not a single fight or shoving match, all real low key....... easy going crowd.
I liked the puerto ricans a lot... we got a lot of comments, wondered where our white asses were from.
ALASKA??? They would exclaim... dat up by CAnada?
They were always inviting us to drink with them, hot tub, etc... all real friendly folks ALL OF THEM.

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:46:58 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
Yeap, they always celebrate the landing with applause and cheers !!!

This

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:56:28 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Did you visit the Black Angus?

I love that place!!!

No, I came from the Carribean, PR was just a stop on the way.

It's a strip joint, what's not to love.

Used to be a well reknown whore house just outside of Old San Juan. I lived there in the early 70's and it had been there a hell of a lot longer than when I was there.

Posted: 10/27/2010 4:59:15 PM EDT

[#39]

PR is not the worst island in the Caribbean but it is real close.

Posted: 10/27/2010 5:00:45 PM EDT

[#40]

The OP's story reminds me of a music video I saw about 10 or 15 years ago with some latin group & they were on an airliner & the whole friggin plane was one big party......... can't remember the name of the group or the song though......

Oh well.....

Posted: 10/27/2010 5:03:45 PM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:
What, no goats or chickens?

The goats were providing lap dances in the restrooms.

Posted: 10/27/2010 5:08:34 PM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:
How about the part when you're passed all the security and they start boarding the plane and you walk past where they scan your ticket,
torward the airway (boarding ramp) and two Boarder Patrol guys pop up out of a corner you didn't even know was there and ask you
in SPANISH what country were you born in!?! I just started reaching for the exterior pocket on my back-pack for our (me & Dad)
magic Blue Passports and he says, this time in english, "no, no, what city were you born in?".

I believe the proper response is "Are you trying to hit on me, or just making small-talk?"

Posted: 10/27/2010 5:11:12 PM EDT

[#43]

thought you were going to say your arms were tired.

Posted: 10/27/2010 5:15:23 PM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:

Quoted:
What, no goats or chickens?

The goats were providing lap dances in the restrooms.

I guess the stalls are too small for a donkey show.

As for Puertoricans cheering and clapping when the plane lands? That's because they are glad the engines didn't fall off and the plane didn't take a nosedive into the Atlantic (or Caribbean Sea if you are flying from SOuth America).

Actually, we leave the goats and chickens in the cargo bay next to the galley; where do you think they get the in-flight meals from?

Posted: 10/27/2010 5:15:52 PM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:

thought you were going to say your arms were tired.

Damn you! I was going to post that!

Posted: 10/27/2010 5:17:07 PM EDT

[#46]

Growing up in NYC, I have absolutely, positively no desire to visit Puerto Rico, tropical paradise or not.

Posted: 10/27/2010 5:23:25 PM EDT

[#47]

Reminded me of this, for some reason...

_MaH

Posted: 10/27/2010 5:24:57 PM EDT

[#48]

That's why I fly WASP Air

Posted: 10/27/2010 5:27:38 PM EDT

[#49]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Yeap, they always celebrate the landing with applause and cheers !!!

THIS. I witnessed the same thing on my trip to PR. You'd have thunk their team just won the world series...and all the pilots did was land the damn plane.

Most south american countries airliners are serviced at triple the miles they're supposed to be.

Its a miracle that they fly, its an even bigger one when they land.

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