The Hotel on the Roof of the World Read Online Free
Author: Alec le Sueur
be a bit careful as bits of fuselage stuffing and bare wires protrude from the backs of the lockers, which do tend to get in the way. Stewardesses shout and order people about, but nobody listens to them, as they are all too busy trying to cram 20 kg bags into 10 kg spaces. Inevitably, several of the lockers will be left open with bags hanging out over unsuspecting passengers. The rest of the luggage is piled up on any empty seats. I once sat next to a basket containing half a frozen pig, which started to defrost shortly after take-off and drip onto the carpet. No one, except myself, seemed at all concerned.
The ceiling tiles hang down slightly and as the plane accelerates along the runway it is always fun to guess how many oxygen masks are going to fall out, amusing the passengers in their seats. Sometimes you only have half a seat belt to hang on to nervously as you watch the poor stewardess who is trying her best to get through the safety demonstration before being bowled off her feet as the plane hits take-off velocity.
To calm the nerves it is always advisable to ask for a copy of the in-flight magazine. To give CAAC their credit this is the best inflight entertainment available on any of the worldâs airlines. When I read my first copy I laughed so much I had tears running down my cheeks and the stewardess had to come over to ask me to stop. It is an impressive-looking glossy magazine. The gloss is so good that it could have been printed in Hong Kong, but the English can only have come from a person in China who had never used the English language. The result is the best publication in the history of aviation.
There is a wonderful article with the title: âYouth, Glistening in the Blue Skyâ which is dedicated to CAAC stewardesses:
The stewardess of Southwest Airlines must go through four steps, such as hardship, tiredment, dirt, feeling. Beside the quality of general stewardess.
Reading further about the four steps does not exactly inspire confidence in CAAC, and the nervous passenger, clinging to his half seat belt as the plane taxis along the runway, is not advised to read the passage concerning hardship:
Hardship, is obviously observed on flight Chengdu â Lhasa line, plane often bring trouble to passengers with bump caused by airflow, because of dangerous topography and changeful climate. The stewardess must look into passengers, they have such trouble as same as passengers. Stewardess, Ge Ling has had a scar on her head, because of a sudden bump.
But not only do the stewardesses run the risk of injury, they must also keep the passengers satisfied:
Tiredment, that the stewardess is often effected by. Flying 1,000 km, they service passengers more than fifteen times in passenger cabin with only 30 m long, they fly four times per day as usual.
And when the stewardesses are exhausted after servicing all those passengers, they still have to face the most difficult task of all:
Disregarding dirt, is a distinguishing feature of stewardess of Southwest Airlines. a passenger had incontinence of faeces, stewardess, Zhu Jiang Yin and Tan-GouPing, helped this passenger without hesitation. The passenger was so moved full of tears.
So, no problem if you should have any âincontinence of faecesâ troubles â you will be in the good hands of the âYouth, Glistening in the Blue Skyâ.
A later edition of the in-flight magazine also confirmed one of my other suspicions about CAAC. I had long maintained that just before take-off, a man went around the outside of the aircraft checking everything with a screwdriver to see that it was all still screwed on. No one believed me, but there in the magazine was proof: a full colour picture of the screwdriver man and his friend, with the caption: âConscientious and meticulousâ.
On my first journey I closely followed the work of the screwdriver man, wondering if the heavy engines really were screwed on tight enough. They shook a lot down
The ceiling tiles hang down slightly and as the plane accelerates along the runway it is always fun to guess how many oxygen masks are going to fall out, amusing the passengers in their seats. Sometimes you only have half a seat belt to hang on to nervously as you watch the poor stewardess who is trying her best to get through the safety demonstration before being bowled off her feet as the plane hits take-off velocity.
To calm the nerves it is always advisable to ask for a copy of the in-flight magazine. To give CAAC their credit this is the best inflight entertainment available on any of the worldâs airlines. When I read my first copy I laughed so much I had tears running down my cheeks and the stewardess had to come over to ask me to stop. It is an impressive-looking glossy magazine. The gloss is so good that it could have been printed in Hong Kong, but the English can only have come from a person in China who had never used the English language. The result is the best publication in the history of aviation.
There is a wonderful article with the title: âYouth, Glistening in the Blue Skyâ which is dedicated to CAAC stewardesses:
The stewardess of Southwest Airlines must go through four steps, such as hardship, tiredment, dirt, feeling. Beside the quality of general stewardess.
Reading further about the four steps does not exactly inspire confidence in CAAC, and the nervous passenger, clinging to his half seat belt as the plane taxis along the runway, is not advised to read the passage concerning hardship:
Hardship, is obviously observed on flight Chengdu â Lhasa line, plane often bring trouble to passengers with bump caused by airflow, because of dangerous topography and changeful climate. The stewardess must look into passengers, they have such trouble as same as passengers. Stewardess, Ge Ling has had a scar on her head, because of a sudden bump.
But not only do the stewardesses run the risk of injury, they must also keep the passengers satisfied:
Tiredment, that the stewardess is often effected by. Flying 1,000 km, they service passengers more than fifteen times in passenger cabin with only 30 m long, they fly four times per day as usual.
And when the stewardesses are exhausted after servicing all those passengers, they still have to face the most difficult task of all:
Disregarding dirt, is a distinguishing feature of stewardess of Southwest Airlines. a passenger had incontinence of faeces, stewardess, Zhu Jiang Yin and Tan-GouPing, helped this passenger without hesitation. The passenger was so moved full of tears.
So, no problem if you should have any âincontinence of faecesâ troubles â you will be in the good hands of the âYouth, Glistening in the Blue Skyâ.
A later edition of the in-flight magazine also confirmed one of my other suspicions about CAAC. I had long maintained that just before take-off, a man went around the outside of the aircraft checking everything with a screwdriver to see that it was all still screwed on. No one believed me, but there in the magazine was proof: a full colour picture of the screwdriver man and his friend, with the caption: âConscientious and meticulousâ.
On my first journey I closely followed the work of the screwdriver man, wondering if the heavy engines really were screwed on tight enough. They shook a lot down
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