Non-Rev Lounge

We’re podcasting remotely this time! Bear with us while we transition to a video format!

• Trading work items!
• Lara goes through Miami! AND WHY!!??
• Tyler gets recognized!! 
• Monique chases down non revs (“Hey Mary”)
• Pet peeves! (And why does Tyler have so many? 🤔
• The Fritos Story
• Don’t bring your own alcohol to consume onboard 
• Have you ever had a black eye?
• Poor Spirit Airlines 😢
• Tyler takes his wife to Seattle for her birthday! 
• Monique watches his kids so he can do that 😇
• Who’s birthday is it anyway?
• Things we are thankful for! 
• Happy Thanks To our USA listeners!🍗🦃

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This week we have Caroline join us to talk about her time as a military flight attendant.  She is also a flight attendant with Lara and has some fun Non-Rev stories.

• Air Force jet mechanic 
• KC 135 Boom Operator 
• Alaska reservation agent
• Doug from The Next Trip Podcast is a “Gucci Boy”
• Congressional Flight Attendant 
• I don’t care who you are, but what do you want to eat?
• 737 but the Air Force calls them C 40
• They did everything from the shopping for the flight, loading the luggage, cleaning the aircraft and washing the dishes
• She was America West so that got her ready! 
• Taiwan, Naples, China, Japan
• Non Rev to Tel Aviv, Egypt to  scuba dive.
• Prefers to work the smaller cities like Bakersfield, Santa Barbara, Monterey 
• Exploring nude beaches😜

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(**) Be prepared for plenty of flex from Tyler 🙄

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We have a special episode! The crew is joined by our frequent guest, Brittany, and her travel bestie !  (**) 

• Why are the flight attendants spraying the cabin with an aerosol while passengers are on board?
• Karaoke bonding 
• Registered guest
• Croatia 🇭🇷 first non rev flight!
• Brittany has big news!
• Brittany flys with Lara’s son Drew ❤️
• Someone DM’d Lara and asked to buy her flight attendant shoes! 😱
• Brittany was Pre Flight Camp Director this previous summer!
• She tells us all about this fabulous program to expose young girls to aviation!!
• https://www.preflightcamp.com
• Their Taylor Swift Eras trip 🙌
• Getting T Swift tickets is a WHOLE ordeal!
• Wanted ANY city in Europe!!
• You’ll have to listen to hear which city they won their tickets!
• Trying to get to the T Swift concert! Of course there’s a story! This is the Non Rev Lounge podcast!
• Their European adventure AFTER the concert!
• Croatia Pro Tip: get the Dubrovnik Pass for entrance to museums, transportation, etc
• If Brittany is around….be prepared for an emergency!

(**) Be prepared for plenty of flex from Tyler 🙄

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This week Tyler takles about his recenty trip with his wife to  Venice and Athens

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We meet the famous Captain Aux!

 Aviation Captain, bush pilot, travel enthusiast, pilot mentor, blogger and published  author! Really, is there anything this man cannot do?

• A love story ❤️
• His career as an author 
• Boeing or Airbus?
• Cochise College like prior guest, Kayla The Pilot
• How he started as an Alaskan bush pilot
• capnaux.com
• Aviation Dad and Mom
• Non reving during Covid
• Flying for a Flagship airline Philippine Airlines
• Foreign carrier service vs US Service

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This week the crew talks about a nuber of topics.  Sorry for the delayed show Tyler was busy traveling! Hence the name of this podcast!! Hee hee!

• Lara whines about doing domestic flights as if she is an international 👸
• Happy 10 year anniversary to Monique!!
• Why Tyler will NEVER retire! 
• JetBlue has lounges??
• Chester (Alaska) marries Pualani (Hawaiian)
• We talk mergers!!
• Prospect, the company,  ensures our wheelchair passengers can travel!
• Phoenix uses a dry rub….. for cleaning our planes!! 🤔
• Listener letters
• Dayton Air Force Museum is a must see for every Avgeek!
• Thanks Sarah, Chaz, Daniel, Robert and Jesse!
• The top 5 airports in the USA
• Don’t forget that your airline DEPENDENTS  can now have their own StaffTraveler accounts! 🙌🏆
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Kayla joins the crew to talk about her life as Non Rev.  She talkes about her flight school and about recently aging out of her flight benefits. 

• Kayla’s parents are prior America West Airlines! 
• US Airways was a bad merger
• First flight at 6 months of age ❤️
• Kayla went on her ATL overnight!
• Now today Kayla is STILL going with her mom on her overnights! 
• Kayla’s sister got a lay flat seat BEFORE Kayla, who is arguably the more Avgeek of the two of them! 
• Kayla’s dad believes in her 💕
• Cochise College
• Moving to Kentucky to teach student pilots!
• Kayla has a funeral for her flight benefits when she aged out! 😫 Everyone wore black! It actually was Friday the 13th! 😱
• Kayla has a farewell tour! 
• Once again there are TWO Penn Stations!

Follow Kayla on Instragram @Kayla.the.pilot

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This week the 3 of us talked about Tyler's NonRev holiday weekend trip to Germany. And we piggyback off the Flying Smarter Podcast about JD Power passenger satisfaction report and what things we like with travel and NonReving!! 

• Planning a meet up!
• Tyler REALLY has traveled bunches this year! What tea does he have on wife Katie that she allows this?
• Where on the aircraft did Tyler & Katie sit compared to THEIR two boys?
• Yet more water park stories!
• Germany = Castles
• Lara gives her advice on sleeping again with jet lag
• Non rev nightmare coming home
• Tyler becomes a name dropper!
• We talk about the Flying Smarter podcast. Andrew (the host who has been on our podcast) talks to the JD Power Award people! We then do our own 🤣

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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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