I couldn't put it any better.

I haven't seen this Intervention program yet (and being in Canada may not get to for a while) but I hope people pay attention.

After too many years of people watching Home and Garden TV and therefore thinking themselves as real estate experts, maybe they'll start listening to someone who works in real estate on a daily basis - their Realtor, and follow his or her suggestions, though as this program shows (apparently), I doubt it.

You want your house to sell? First get a Realtor that knows what he's doing. If you're Staging, get a Stager that is Accredited, not some fluffer. (Staging I do means that the house is in tip top shape, floors so clean you could eat off 'em, flaws fixed - not covered up, "sponge-effect" walls painted - no matter how much "work" your children put into doing it)

LISTEN to what the Realtor and or Stager has to say. They aren't dissing your home, you're paying them to help you sell your house. They see the filthy floors, unflushed toilets, sanitary napkins in the wastebin, and other nasties that you apparently cannot see.

We don't have a magic wand that can "bring multiple offers" and even if I did, I strongly dislike them. Similarly, if I am working with you to buy a house, and recommend staying away from a particular house, or advise you NOT to get involved in a bidding war because the home is not worth more than List, don't blame me when you l have to sell a year down the road and can't get what you paid for the house.

As a former Flight Attendant for a number of carriers I have to say that the ONLY times where I seriously thought the jig was up were in an Airbus. And let me add to that that I have had a few close calls, including a tire fire in a DC-8 that would have done us in "a la Concorde" if we hadn't aborted takeoff (and we'd already rotated). It was in fact the same situation that would occur on July 11, 1991 to Nationair Canada in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia that resulted in one of the most under-reported and gruesome air crashes. Passengers falling out 11 miles from the airport, the plane losing structural integrity and crashing just over 1km from the runway. No survivors.

Give me an airplane thats made of something other than composite. Sure, there may only have been 1 confirmed incident of the vertical stabilizer breaking off, but I'm sure that comes as cold comfort to the family and friends of those killed in that incident.

I've never had to circle an airport for over an hour while the pilots radio Toulouse to find out how to get the airplane to stop circling the airport - in anything other than an Airbus. There's a reason it's been nicknamed "scAirbus".

RE: Cold comfort (By JorenCarlson, July 10, 07:13)

>I've never had to circle an airport for over an hour while the pilots radio Toulouse to find out how to get the airplane to stop circling the airport - in anything other than an Airbus.

Supposing that such a thing even happened, it would most certainly have nothing to do with the difference between a computer augmented flight regime (Airbus style) versus Non-Airbus style, because that computer regime has nothing to do with navigation, it purely controls the immediate flight.

Oh it happened alright. What, you think I made it up? My point remains. I've never had an airplane "lock-out" inputs or controls from the pilot in anything but an Airbus. Yes, yes, it was only once, but once was enough.

You could give them 3 feet of leg room and many (note I didn't say all) people would still leave the area looking like a landfill.

I've seen it all. Babies in overhead bins, shit in the sink (and other locations) wiping snot on the wall or the seat in front of them, masturbation, changing babies on tray tables. There's nothing passengers do that faze me anymore. For what its worth, the picture accompanying this weeks article is tame compared to with what I've seen thousands of times over. I used to hear other FA's say, "do they act like this at home?" Truth is, I think some of them do. Maybe it's the "bring your bags, check your brains" theory in action.

Granted, there are some people that would clean up better if there was more room, but business class and first class areas I've seen after any flight longer than 3 hours would tend to contradict that theory. There seems to be a prevailing North American sense that if something falls on the floor, someone else will pick it up.

Its always interesting to see the reactions of cabin crew after they've done their first flight to or from Japan with a high percentage of Japanese on board. There's comparatively very little rubbish on the floor, and what is left is usually in the back of seat pockets in neatly folded sick bags, headset bags or other bag that the passenger provided. It's the same on trains and busses. Why Mt. Fuji is covered in litter amazes me, but thats beside the point.

I had to laugh at the picture of the fairing with speed tape on it.

Back in the late 80's early 90's there was a Canadian charter airline called Nationair - no longer around. (fortunately?) It was notorious for making the news, garbage bags being used to cover air leaks due to leaky door seals, parts falling off airplanes, blown tires, the worst crash involving a Canadian company/aircraft in 1991 due to negligence, falsified documents and under-inflated tires. They made extensive use of speed tape since parts were apparently short on hand due to overly "thrifty" management.

"By "parts" do you mean speed tape?"

-Mechanic commenting on the shortage of real parts for aircraft fixes