if you find drugs do you let it slide because your cool like that

>>98186
No. There's no area of the airport where you're alone with passengers baggage and when bags are waiting to be loaded onto a plane it's hectic and fast paced. Not much time to steal shit.
There have been like 3 people caught stealing shit from bags. The cops set up stings, if people complain about stuff going missing from their bags, baggage service can track what gates it happens at, what times of day and the supervisors will work with cops to bust thieves.
There was a really weird white kid who was caught stealing womens underwear from a bag and when they searched his car he had hundreds of lingerie items in his trunk.

>>98190
A bag zipper failed and the contents went fucking everywhere (this happens daily) and the operating procedure is to call someone over to witness you put everything back in the bag and close it to the best of your ability. My supervisor came over and there was a quarter bag of weed partially wrapped in bubblewrap and duct-tape, we both laughed and I put it in a pile of clothes and threw it back in the bag.

>>98184
If you meant TSA then yes they do. About 1/4 of the bags that go through the belts get security checked, all international baggage gets run through a scanner, about 1/5 of it gets extra open bag inspections.

Hey Op, how much do you make? do you get flight benefits?

1. I'm flying to Yurop in a few months. If I put those special TSA-compatible locks on your bags, does that increase/decrease/affect my chances of getting my bags opened?

2. Which airlines have their shit together when it comes to dealing with airport facilities?

*on my bags

whurps

What's the worst part of your job?

>>98464
11.90 per hour, unlimited flights. I've flown first class to russia, poland, france, spain and Ireland, for free. Any Delta flight or delta's partners airlines accomodate me. My parents and one other person I choose also get unlimited buddy passes and I get 12 buddy passes to give out to anyone every year.

>>98477
I don't work with the TSA but I have seen locks cut off with bolt cutters and then the bags shut back with duct tape by the TSA so anything that makes their job simpler is a good thing.
2. Delta. They basically run CVG and all the other little piss-ant airlines feed off their connections, Delta makes sure the logistics are in order and since they have marketshare they take care of their employees and passengers better than others.
Northwest is the worst from what I'm seen, they straight up don't give a shit about getting the passengers bags on the plane and treat people like crap. They also cancel flights for a light drizzle.

>>98490
Working outside, no matter what the weather is like and on holidays. The only time airport operations stop is if there's lightning very close by, otherwise we keep working. If 20 inches of snow lands and it's impossible to get to our cars in the employee parking lot, we get put up for 8 hours in a nearby hotel and are expected to work a double shift the next day to clean up the mess.

also- lavatories. watching gallons of blue juice mixed with tampons, shit, piss and toilet paper go through a tube never gets any better. And the system for draining is not designed well so it leaks on you. A lot.

Cool thread OP.

How hard would it be to get a job like yours?

>>98184

if im checking in a small/medium size backpack would you suggest i cover it up with the waterproof-cover that comes with it, so theres no chance of stuff falling out from zips opening etc?

Do they check you like crazy for security reasons, as before you are hired or during your daily work?

To get sure you guys don't smuggle drugs on the planes or plant a bomb or sabotage in any other way?

>>98541
As long as you don't have felonies or warrants, incredibly easy. I work with a lot of fucktards.
>>98544
YES. Listen folks, don't check anything that you don't mind getting at least a little damp, possibly soaked/ stored at the bottom of a pile of 500 pounds of luggage/ dropped from 10 feet onto cement.
If you REALLY need it when you get off the plane, carry on. Shit falls out of bags all the time and we can't figure out where it goes, in which case we "baggage roulette" it and some lucky person gets a random shoe/sock/hairbrush thrown in their bag.
>>98545
TSA, FBI and United States Postal Service background checks, it takes two weeks. You get fingerprinted, you have to write a detailed 10 year history of employment history, educational history, where you lived and any crimes you were convicted of.
Piss test and if you get in an accident at work you get breathalyzed.
Lots of drunks/druggies get through the process and get caught fucking up while tripping balls at work.
The smallest planes we work on cost 20 million dollars, the biggest cost hundreds of million. Air Force one lands at our airport frequently.
It's just a job but you've gotta have your shit together to last there.
Having said all that it's fun. I lost a lot of weight and met a lot of cool people at this job. There's about 1500 people that work at this airport so meeting people is really easy and fun.

There's a real sense of accomplishment when you and one other guy bring a plane in, deplane it, put 8000 pounds of fuel on it, unload then load 100 bags, get more passengers on, get the paperwork turned in and push it back out in under 20 minutes.

>>98545
As long as you have a badge though you get left alone. It would be AMAZINGLY easy for me or anyone else to get drugs or guns in and people do. They caught baggage handlers smuggling guns and coke to Jamaica from Florida two years ago which put us all under the microscope. Before that we didn't even go through security to get on a flights as long as we had a badge. It was pretty ridiculous.
Going in and out of work though, no I never get my person or backpack checked by anyone.

Pretty cool job. Have you had any accidents or seen any accidents?

you work with any muslims or did they all get fired after 11. september and you guys never hired any muslims again?

>>98564
Saw this new guy run into a wing with his tug, caused about $30,000 worth of damage but because it was night time and the captain was pulling into a gate without his beacon lights on he wasn't fired.
A delta mainline 767 came in about two weeks ago when we had our first real snow and ice and slide off the side off the runway into the grass. Tons of paramedics and shit, they used the slides but it wasn't serious and somehow the news stations didn't show up.
Terrorist "threats" happen monthly. If someone leaves a bag in baggage claim and some tsa fucktard thinks it looks suspicious we automatically go to defcon 5 and they incinerate out in the remote area of the airport.
Tugs run into each other all the time but nothing too serious every happens.
I've seen several people collapse from heat exhaustion. When it's 70 degrees in the surrounding area, it's 90 at the airport due to apu's (turbines on jets that keep the ac and electronics working while parked) blowing 1700 degree heat out the sides and white pavement reflecting the sun back up at you.
There's been several deaths of old people in the concourse and on planes. When there's 8-10,000 people coming in and out everyday someone's time is gonna come.

>>98571
Heh, not too many. This one chick who used to work there said they asked her a bunch of weird vague questions about her sentiments on american politics, terrorism, jihad and all kinds of shit when she was getting screened by security for a badge.

She was a Hindu from India.
:|

Do you or other baggage handlers play catch with peoples luggage?

Do you make a lot of jokes about people's bags or their contents? That seems to be a stereotype that you guys take shit apart and laugh about the stuffwe have in our bags.

>>98581

>She was a Hindu from India.
>:|

lol :/

Do many immigrants get hired? Canadafag here, am considering moving to A'merica in possible future and wondering if immigrants score these kind of jobs as so they appear too here.

>>98601
The average bag weighs about 50 pounds so throwing it back and forth would be tough but even the small bags aren't really interesting. Once you've handled one piece of baggage you've handled them all.
We do get cool shit occasionally though, skateboards, antlers during hunting season, hockey sticks, delta gets dead soldiers from Iraq every now and then. In the summer we get a lot of cool puppies from breeders shipping them to buyers.
>>98621
Unless you're a poorfag who bought your luggage at walmart for 9.99 and it evaporated while I was loading it, forcing me to stuff your belongings into it's tattered remains, I have no reason to look in your bags.
TSA does quite often though and they joke about finding dildo's constantly.

You might have noticed that the TSA (aka, Thousands Standing Around) are worthless asshats. They are.
I ride the bus into work with them from the parking lot and they are the largest group of fat, unintelligent, mouth-breathing, soap opera watching, fart joke telling, 90 IQ fuckwits ever assembled by any government anywhere ever.

They enjoy fucking with passengers, taking their shit from them, making them take their shoes off for no reason. They enjoy tossing peoples bags and then throwing everything back in haphazardly. They enjoy taking for fucking ever to do a simple pre-flight security check on an aircraft or to check ground equipment. They will freely admit this.

/rage

>>98637
We have a lot of people from Guam, a few from south america, a couple germans and we used to have an australian.
As long as your work visa's in order you should be fine.
If you're heritage is at all suggestive of possibly being muslim you're gonna get some weird questions but they wont outright reject you. You're background check will probably be pretty thorough though.
Where you thinking of moving to? If it's Atlanta, don't work for an airline there.
Wort airport ever.

>>98643
worst*

How often does a kinfe/scissor/something un-safe ends loaded in plane as a mistake?

>>98643

It would be something in NYC area but in retrospect I would have hopefully finished some schooling by then. Still curious about jobs at local airports but I'll see post college applications.

>>98650
Uhmm...I don't know. Probably a lot. Once a bags on the plane, as long as it isn't going international it doesn't get security screened again, just moved from plane to plane at each connection.
The TSA confiscates shitloads of that stuff each day at the checkpoints and in their underground inspection building.
If you're not flying international, your chances of getting your scissors/knife through to your destination in a checked bag are probably pretty good.

>>98656
Here's what you do; apply at Comair, it's a delta subsidiary which gets you all the delta flight benefits.
Become a "ready reserve on-call" agent. This means you tell them what days you can work, maybe two weekends a month and they'll call you 24 hours before to tell you if they need your help. You come in, work two days, maybe 16 hours total and in return you get the flight benefits, thought not as good as mine being a full-timer. You still get to use any seat that's open on a plane, which is usually first class.
There's a pediatrician and a CPA that drive bags for us every other week or so just so they can save money on travel.

What is the most annoying type of bag someone could use? Something that has hooks and strings/ropes everywhere?

>>98676
Hadji bags. Any baggage handler at any airport will know this term without further explanation. They always come in our JFK flights. They're just like the attached pic only much larger with only one weak ass handle on top.
Then then pack it to the brim with curry, bags of rice and shit tons of other spices so you can smell the bag from 20 feet away, srsly, and then they ship it 5000 miles around the world and expect the handles and third-world zippers to stay intact.

FACE FUCKING PALM.WMV

So by the time you open the cargo bin there's curry powder and dried peppers stinking up EVERYTHING and it gets on your clothes and makes you sneeze and this goddamned heavy ass hadji bag which weighs at least 150 pounds and has no handles by now, has to be unloaded. And hadji's don't travel alone. Oh sweet jesus no, they travel in packs so if you see one of these fucking things you know you're going to have at least 5 more just like it.

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGEEEEEE

>>98665
nice tip anon. thanks.

why dont you get education so you can have better job and pay? must suck to handle baggage all day long, quit your job, take up loan, go study, get good job, profit

>>98689
I'm a college student studying marketing. How do you think I'm paying for it?
Also- when you were a student could you travel the world for cheap? I can.

>>98695
gtfo you retard

>>98689
gtfo, faggot. why are you hating on him for earning an honest living? i'd like to hear what job you have (read: nothing)

>>98689
Because loans are so easy to come by these days, amirite?

This is the person who posted about the Charlotte to Hong Kong flight possibilities.

If a bag is going international, what does the bag go through? What happens to the bag from check in to its international destination?

The reason I ask this is because you said that luggage in national flights do not get screened once the bag is on the plane and the process is different for international baggage.

Also thanks for answering questions here on /trv/, I am learning a lot from this and I am considering applying for a job similar to yours.

Once again thanks

>>98720
When you check your bag to go international it gets routed to their belt for inspecting everything and then once it arrives in the country it will be inspected again before getting to the baggage claim.

When an inbound bag from international arrives, the passenger has to claim it then recheck it where it will be checked again as they go through customs.

What are some good techniques for obscuring the content of ones luggage? Such as narcotics, more narcotics, hand guns for the black market etc

>>98847

OP, where are you? please answer my question kthx

>>98875
>>98847
OP here, I'm not touching that question.

Hey OP,how's the training for the job?
And since you talked about the TSA,do you think it can someday cease to exist?

>>98882

dude you said to ask you anything. anything man

>>98897
Training took two weeks. Lots of OSHA and FAA safety films, some hands on training, more safety training. Learning the city codes is the hardest part but even that's cake if you have any kind of functioning memory.

I doubt the TSA will cease to exist in my lifetime. It's now a big government bureaucracy entrenched in all the airports with a government union. Getting rid of it will be harder than getting rid of AIDS.
As new technologies able to detect weapons and explosives are invented they may have less of a presence but that will take years.
Ideally they could get an overhaul. The hiring process there is a joke, your ability to assess threats and use cognitive skills is completely untested, you need to be a lackey and have no problem hassling people needlessly, that's what they're looking for.
If they started getting serious and hiring ex-military people, training them in-depth as to what to look for and how to deal with threats than it would be win-win. Security lines would be shorter as non-threats would be weeded out quicker and it would all be a lot more organized and actually safe.
The increase in hassle and rules by the neo-TSA has had a serious impact on our business. People would rather drive long distances than have to answer stupid questions, get patted down, have their shit looked through by a numbskull with a stupid uniform for 20 minutes each way.

>>98897
OK. The best place to hide guns and kilos of drugs is up your butt and the butts of your children. They never check there unless you're sweating profusely, walking funny, grimacing everytime you take a step, etc.

>>98904
Thanks for the answers,OP. I remember when air travel was like without the TSA. For example, waiting for passengers to arrive on what is now "the secure area". Eating Pizza Hut drinking Pepsi and watching xbawks hueg 747's while waiting for someone to arrive.
It was all about a simpler time and trust I guess. Gee, thanks 9/11,etc..

Ironically, I've never ridden on a 747. It's fucking rare to see or ride one nowadays.

>>98964

I flew in 747s many times when I was younger.

In March 1997, when I was seven years old, I was able to meet the pilot of the plane and we talked for a little bit.

The old days....

Do you need to meet any "past job experience needed" requirements to get the job, or any related job?

>>99047
No. A GED is all that's needed.

>>98905

Dude, I meant in ones luggage. Stuff that doesn't show up in X-Ray tests and doesn't appear suspicious. Techniques that can be circumvented by a person who knows what to look for and thus hide it more effectively. And how the hell would I fit a carbine in my ass, im not goatse man or the 1guy1jar dude

>>98500

How do the 12 buddy passes work? What is the range of the passes? What are the passes? etc.

I am traveling later this year and unfortunately I my situation isn't the greatest in the world.

I know this sounds desperate but could there perhaps be anyway you could sell me one of the passes?

If not than that is perfectly understandable.

If you can't/won't than forget I said anything.

>>98995
yeah dude, i remember in early 90s like 93 or something, going INTO the cabin with my dad and looking around at it all, i dont think i was really that interested at the time

>>99212

Goatse man wasn't born that way - it takes practice. The sooner you start, the better.

Good luck.

WHY DO YOU FUCKWITS DO ANY COMBINATION OF THE FOLLOWING ON 9/10 FLIGHTS:

1) DELIVER MY LUGGAGE TO AN AIRPORT IN A DIFFERENT GODDAMNED STATE
2) BREAK THINGS IN MY LUGGAGE THAT TAKE EFFORT TO BREAK, LIKE AN ELECTRIC RAZOR IN A PROTECTIVE CASE
3) THE TSA SEARCHES MY BAGS LIKE EVERY FLIGHT. THIS ONE TIME, ALL MY CLOTHES ARRIVED SMELLING LIKE WET DOGS.
4) FUCK YOU, GOD HOW DO YOU PEOPLE SUCK SO MUCH AT YOUR INCREDIBLY SIMPLE JOBS?

>>99260
We do it ALL for the lulz. Keep raging though, I'm fapping so hard to your delicious tears.

>>99049

Okay, that's cool.

Do you work for a specific airline, or is it just an all-airport "wherever you're needed" thing?

What kind of money you making?

>>99284
I work for Comair, a delta subsidiary
>>99286
11.90

Quite cool job. Was it hard to get?
I mean as in résumé and so on.

As an aviation enthusiast I'd like working in an airport.

Have you ever heard of anyone jerking off into someones luggage?

>>99543
No, extremely easy. No similar past jobs are needed, just a GED at the very minimum.
>>99601
HURRR DURRRRR

Not that this is related to the thread or anything, but what kind of traveling have you done since getting the job?

I assume you don't get that much vacation time.

>>99825
two weeks a year paid vacation.
I've been across country several times and been to russia, poland, spain, Ireland and france
going to bali in two weeks or so

>>99893
Sounds nice.

Lots of good info, thanks OP, sounds like I'll be applying at an airport next time I need a job.

One more quick question: is there any good way to reduce the chances of my luggage being lost/stolen, or ending up in another city?

>>99897
on the id tag on the outside, right your name, address, cell number and destination, on the inside of the bag and at least one of the outside pockets put pieces of paper with the same info so if your bagtag comes off we can figure out where the bag needs to go.

>>99899
write*

OP
I am 2 terms away from finishing highschool and want to work for a airline, what chance do I have at getting a job before I graduate?
Also was it hard to start? I would think the speed and everything must have taken some time to get right, was the learning curve a hard one?

>>99907
You have to have a high-school degree or GED but getting started is more fun than stressful. It's completely different to any other job in the same pay range in terms of responsibility and pace. Hundreds of people rely on you to get their bags there and you'll be in charge of parking, fueling and pushing out 20+ million dollar aircraft.

It's a lot of fun and would make a great first job as it would prepare you for anything.

Do you handle the animals that people bring along with them? I've never thought it particularly humane to "check" your dog, but people still do it. What is that like? I know you guys are moving fast but does anything fucked up ever happen?

>>99930
Yes we move a lot of animals. Mostly dogs and cats but we also get snakes, medical experiment mice and birds, had a wallaby once, chickens, small goats.

We've had a couple accidents where cages fell out of carts and got run over killing the animal but that's extremely rare.
A dog got free from it's cage and ran out onto one of the runways and had to be shot by the airport cops a couple years ago.

Every had any TERRIST threats or incidents?

>>99936
And if the animal gets away, what do you say to customer? Does the customer get anything if the animal gets killed?

Hey OP, what determines if your bag gets opened and checked? A few years ago mine got checked like EVERY FUCKING TIME I flew, and now it hardly happens at all. Is it randomized or is it because otherwise innocuous stuff looks weird on the xray?

>>99938
No, you would have heard about it if we did.
>>100060
There's customer complaint resolution personnel who handle passengers who have bumped multiple times, or have to have bad news broken to them.
You sign papers when you ship your pet stating it's not foolproof and a loss of cargo bin air pressure or accidents could harm/kill them.
Airline Not Responsible. :)
>>100091
Yeah it's the xray, if you carry something that looks like it might contain something else they check it. They also randomly check people/bags at regular intervals.

Excellent thread, OP.

>>98964
Definitely for domestic in the US/Canada/Australia, 747s are rarely in use.

International/long distance flights however, they are common. Obviously airline dependent too, but in the last 4 years I flew 8 times on 747s, all +10 hour flights.

Interesting thread OP
I'm a 18-year-old young man from finland. Do you think i'd theoretically have any chance of getting the job you are doing for the next summer?

this thread is bullshit baggage handlers are thieves

>>100248
I dunno what the rules are in Yurop but for our country 18 is the minimum age for hiring. Our airport has an employment office where you put your application in for either the vendors selling food and stuff or the airlines.
>>100258
cool story bro

>>100267
I meant to say for our company, there are jobs where you can work under 18, just not the aviation industry.

Have you had any problems with fueling planes?
And has anybody driven to runway(As in: somehow through the fences and parked the car next to the plane) to catch a flight?

>>100274
Fueling is easy but people manage to fuck it up every few months. Overfueling is the most common, too much and a vent opens under the wins and spews out gallons upon gallons. It sucks, the cleanup is a pain and the person who did it gets piss tested and sent home for 3 days.

There were these two guys who seemed like they were on drugs who came through the fence in an oldschool caddy convertible and came skidding to a hault right next to the plane. We were gonna call the cops but they were pretty cool so we let them go.

have you ever had sex at work? Has there ever been a threesome or more where you work - at work!? Or a threesome or more with coworkers away from work?

ever hooked up with a coworker? What would be your estimate for the amount of times you've whacked off at work in any given week?

>>100330
Yeah people fuck at work, there's lot of little nooks and underground rooms you can sneak into. I never have because I've had a gf for most of the time I worked there and chicks that work on the ramp are usually pretty burly.
>>100333
I've never whacked off at work but if I see your bag I'll make an exception.

I knew a Japanese woman who had her luggage violated (profanity written all over it etc etc) because it was heavy. within the limit, but heavy. Does this happen much, and if so; c'mon!

>>100396
lol no. Probably because the bag weighed more than the Jap baggage handler.
The only sadistic thing we do is laugh when shit falls apart on a bag. When we pull it out of a cargo bin, you don't set it down, you let the bottom corner hit the ground so you don't destroy your back.
Really cheap/overpacked bags will destroy their wheel or plastic stabilizer when you do this and we laugh. But no one that I work would purposefully damage a bag just to be a dick.

Q. Is the luggage conveyance system as cool looking as on Toy Story 2?

Q2. Does Comair have rules about discussing work (including conditions, incidents, etc.) outside of work, especially at parties, on the internet?

(My organisation does- I'm representing my organsation 24/7, and as such anything I do reflects back on the organisation. So, no discussion of my work on the intawebs.)

InB4 I'm Anonymous, how is Comair going to find out who I am, etc., etc., etc.

>>100283

lol

Do you treat a piece of luggage any differently if it is marked "fragile"?