Non-Rev Lounge

Dorkfest!! 
This year Tyler is the only one of the three of us to attend this annual Avgeek gathering at LAX airport! 

• Tyler goes outside of his comfort zone 
• DJ Spotter”s cousin Devon takes a train from SEA to LAX!! Lara did some recon and it takes 34 hours and he had a bedroom! 
• Tyler gets a concourse shout out from a listener! 
• Monique and Lara give their weak a$$ excuses why they didn’t attend the Mecca for Avgeeks.🙄
• Greg Peterson, an ancillary member of The Next Trip Podcast, went to Victorville 
• Tyler’s constant flex about having his Hyatt Globalist!
• Tyler talks about all the fun people he saw! 
• Tyler and his dad do an epic boys trip visiting various baseball stadiums and watching games!
• Lara learns how difficult it is to deplane passengers 
• What do four S”s on a boarding pass mean? SSSS

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Lucky for us that 🔥Dane The Dentist/Ramper and Rachel The Flight Attendant/Health Coach with  the nice butt, stuck around for another fun episode! We were having so much fun 🙌
Lots of Pro Tips in this episode!

• We discuss airline employee cartels! 
• Paying for shifts
• 🎶 Get your money for nothing, and your chicks fo free🎶
• Lara doesn’t want your crappy domestic trips….but feel free to send a dic$ pic 🤣
• Tyler Rants (again 🙄) oh, and so do the rest of us! 
• Passenger Shaming incidents 
• NEVER snap your fingers at Rachel! 😡
• Pro Tip: Or any other flight attendant!
• Rachel has a joke! 
• Where would you travel if your airline gave you two positive space passes?
• What travel advice would our panel give others!!!
• Pro Tip: Fairbanks, Alaska is the best place to view the Northern Lights 🤯
• What is something our panel has learned this last year while traveling?
• This section is all about Pro Tips!

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Our guest Diana is a full-time nurse and a part-time ramp worker.  She is Tyler's coworker and used to be Katie’s (Tyler's Wife) co-worker and definitely she prefers Katie.  🤣
She talked about her love for traveling and said she would do the airline job for free if it meant she got her flight benefits!! 

• Diana is just the cutest ramper Lara has ever seen!
• Two jobs! Nurse at the Children’s Hospital and a ramper! 
• Main line transfer! But no vacay baby 🏖️
• Loving those flight benefits!
• Not every beautiful woman on the ramp is gay! 
• Loves traveling, the cultures, the people…
• There’s ⚖️ between two jobs!
• Travel groups are the way to go!! Make decisions for you!
• Group tours need a debrief session!
• Kenya! 🇰🇪 
• Tents in the savanna!
• International trips: Bali, Cape Town!
• Swimming with 🦈
• Do local tours so you get told what’s really happening!
• Spontaneity is the key 🔑 for all of us non revs!!
• Where to next?? 
• Prague and Zurich solo! 
• Don’t book your hotel until inflight! 
• Jordan 🇯🇴 and Petra! 
• Punked a friend story!
• This girl has traveled 🙌

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Did Dane get arrested, you bet he did.  Was it in a foreign country Yep.  Everyone is going to love this episode!

• Dentist, ramper, photographer, traveler and easy on the eye TOO!
• What is a seasonal employee?
• Pay load optimized, over grossed and weight restricted mean the same thing!
• Drove by himself through Austria 🇦🇹 and the  Italian alps 🇮🇹 so he could take some phenomenal photos 🙌 while hiking!
• Airline friends fly in for dental work!
• Lara says Dane needs to add Botox to his practice! 💉
• Flew to Munich to see T Swift! 
• Octoberfest!! Go authentic in your attire!
• Anne Frank museum, cheese and beer boat tour! Book early as Anne Frank sells out quickly!
•  PRO TIP:  When something is sold out, try a 3rd party vendor like Trip Advisor or Viator, etc…
• Day trip to Oregon for photography!
• Yep! The embarrassing story is the arrest! 🤣🤣🤣

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This week we have Brenna Join us to talk about some of her travels.  She grew up her entire life as a Non Rev and has seen the world! 🌎 

• Brenna’s parents are prior America West Airlines! Dad is an Airbus Capt and retired military pilot. Mom is a retired AWA CSR and Flight Attendant.
• Studied Global Studies, duh! 
• Got a Master’s at Thunderbird!
• Peru, Greece, Macedonia, Brussels for school abroad!
• Water taxis are the same as regular taxi in Sydney.
• Jet lag is real 😱
• River Cruise with her mom down the Danube.
• Ama Waterways is the name of the cruise line purchased through Perx ( don’t forget your nonrevlounge30 discount!
• River cruises are more intimate than the giant ocean liners.
• 30 plus countries she’s traveled
• Airport Proficiency Test

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We meet Rachel a flight attendant for a US carrier. She ZEDs everywhere!  Rachel speaks French and has been to Paris many times. She decided she wanted to go to the Olympics!

• Someone pushed Rachel into applying for a flight attendant position. She applied to appease them!
• She was meant to be an FA!
• Oh, to be young and beautiful! The pilot saw her and re-opened the door to put Rachel on!
• How does your airline hire such funny people?
• Rachel is a BIG fan of our wonderful sponsor StaffTraveler (yes, we ARE sucking up! 🤣)
• How Rachel got a Premium Plus seat to Paris! 
• Trying to get tickets to Olympic events
• Connecting with an old hostel friend at the Olympics
• Rachel’s embarrassing story! 

Find  Rachel on IG at: @rhutchi5
YouTube: @RachelHutchi5

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This week we had Mathew join us and share some of his travel trips and well as his really cool experiences! 

• The Next Trip Podcast debates their airline's new “Full Transparency” policy so we join in! 
• Mathew grew up as a non rev kid!
• Fell in ❤️ with first class!
• Met Rosie and blinded her with Paris for dinner!
• This Guy M + Rosie = 💒 = 🍼🚼
• School district changes their break schedule so no Q Suite on Qatar! 😩
• Taking a shower onboard ✈️
• Mystery Shopper!!!!
• About credit card points: Don’t yell at your spouse if they use the wrong credit card! 
• Even the most seasoned traveler can miss their flight 🤦‍♀️
• Around The World 🌎 
• You can watch Matthew’s travels on Instagram @thisguym

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WE DIDN’T START THE FIRE!! 
So much happening in our aviation world!! 
We discuss! 

• Ode to Billy Joel 
• Phoenix London market changes
• What the heck is Tuachan?
• Crowdstrike! 
• Blue screen of death
• Where was Rico?
• Southwest BIG changes
• Tyler is now a Hyatt Globalist!!🙌
• Tyler is all over plane spotting
• Henry the EP gets Tyler into the ultimate lounge!
• Dayton Air Show
• Olympics!

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This weeks episode Eric and Catherine join us to talk about their first non-Rev trips as well as share some tips on some new technology that may help your travels. 

• Catherine tags along on a business trip to Japan as her first non rev trip!
•  Sakai City directly south of Osaka makes the best knives
• First mistake she makes as a non rev….
• Eric’s first non rev trip is to Hartford…. In the Continental United States 🤪
• They rent their cars from Enterprise 🚗
• They’re Team Look-Back! (Not Lara)
• Fun fact: Catherine speaks mandarin! 🥢
• Athens!! With Rick Steves audio books!
• Eric is a techie! 
• Travel router is a MUST! It connects to the hotel then all of your devices connect to that! 
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• Tortilla press in Mexico City! 

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Lara tells us about the rest of her trip and how she decided to stay in Paris for a few extra days and take the nonstop rather than stopping three times on the return!!

• We talk about summer work.
• Hawaii flights are over grossed in the summer
• Can you non rev in the summer?
• Camel 🐪 Ride was the BEST part of the Morocco tour!
• Romance in the Sahara
• Sahara = Sand
• What’s a Moroccan Waterman?
• Do you take away rocks or sand from a place you’ve visited?
• “We'll always have Paris” (especially since we went to Casablanca❤️)
• Moulin Rouge is a MUST SEE
• Olympics are coming! 
• Dinner cruise 🚢 on the Seine!
• Sparkly Effie tower
• 10 pounds of butter from Paris

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