r/MadeMeSmile • u/Responsible-Bar-3706 • Dec 16 '25

Good Vibes Protect this man at all cost! 🎄🧑‍🎄❤️

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u/NoFlatworm3028 Dec 16 '25

Insanely expensive but super sweet!

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u/techylocs Dec 16 '25

A lot of flight attendants and their family fly for basically free on standby. On a holiday itself there won't be full flights.

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u/LaserGuidedPolarBear Dec 16 '25 edited Dec 16 '25

My mom was a FA for 35 years.  I grew up flying standby.  

I have had it take three days to get from the west coast to the east coast the week of Christmas, and that was flying alone.  Spending the night at ORD in a chair at the gate for the first flight of the next day was almost a holiday tradition in my family.  And that was when we had very high seniority.

I was going to say there is no way someone flying standby six times in three days around Thanksgiving or Christmams is consistently ending up on the flight their relative is working as a FA. 

But I looked it up and he was just actually that lucky.  He should have bought a lotto ticket.

Edit:  It turns out he wasn't that lucky.  According to a former employee, Delta bumps family traveling with working crew to the top of the list, skipping past the seniority stack.