Airport Employees' Share Funniest Work Experiences (Reddit Stories r/AskReddit)

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[rubyamateurtactician]

My nanu (Grandpa) got stopped at security once. He loves to work with modeling clay, and one time he tried to take a big unopened brick of it in his bag. After putting his bag through the scanner, airport security called him aside. Nanu had a bit of a facepalm moment; he knew exactly what the problem was. When it goes through the scanner machine, a big block of modeling clay looks a heck of a lot like a big block of C-4

[marclytle]

Feel bad about that guy caught in the lift. Happened to me at work once. Lucky for me it was only six hours, but still.

[murielvaillancourt]

The guy in airport lift that drank mop water was very lucky: a maid in NY who get struck in lift for three days drank mop water and her kidneys were destroyed and she losed her mind to toxicity.

[carollynch]

9:19 Flop.I’m ok. Flop. I’m ok. Sorry. Not sorry. I laughed til I cried. I hope she wasn’t hurt. But 😂😂😂😂😂

[jonathanjuwainat]

I have an explanation for the first one, I remember reading in a Reddit post with this exact same situation but it was with the F117 nighthawk where one of the people in the Air Force working on other aircraft were told to follow the exact same orders they saw at a land without any of the runway lights on and two weeks after the F1 17 nighthawk was released to the public and military so probably two weeks after this was posted there will be a release of a classified aircraft

[michaelbujaki]

12:52 That's when I go to the pilot and tell him "The guy working on our plane used to work for me, and he's a blithering idiot."

[largolt]

The Englishwoman who got set up is NOT at fault. It's partly security's fault for being so slow that someone was able to smuggle dope through right in front of them. That's why I don't travel in sketchy places like that.

[Hipples]

9:29 I go to PITT International all the time and I can only imagine this happened on the main escalator, which is right next to a 30~ foot drop off, so that could’ve gone wayyy worse.

[CaTastrophy]

Two similar but completely different stories from when I flew out of the country on a vacation. An american was going through the line for the scanners in london, and almost everyone freaked out because he took off his shoes and started to unbuckle his belt.


Then, there was the french woman who went through an american scanner line that was basically empty, save for her and my group. She didn't know much english, but knew enough that she could somewhat understand the TSA guy telling her to take off her clothes. So, she took off her jacket, and then she pulled off her dress in one quick motion. I've never seen a dress get taken off that quickly in my life, and I wear a lot of them.


In both cases, I facepalmed hard.

[artsyscrub]

Oblitory not staff.
But, me and my siblings were flying to our dad's house, (he lived in Maryland at the time and we lived in Tenessee) my sister was really into lps (littles pet shops) at this stage too. So she bought a bunch of lps stuff, i was the oldest so i had to lead my siblings through the airport (bc my mom wasn't aloud back past security.) We were going through the line, already a bit late when a TSA agent pulls us aside. Asks us the normal "did you pack this bag" i thought the pins on the bag set the detector off, the agent opens the bag and finds a bottle of water, i relized its the bottle my sister uses for fake tears on her lps. I turn to her with a look of pure hate at my sister. Lucky, the tsa agent saw we were just a bunch of kids, and let us go with the water bottle and we didn't even have to empty it, and we just barely made it to our plane.

I haven't forgotten, and next time we get on a plane i will 100% make sure to ask "make sure you don't bring your lps tears on the plane."

[rosssmith]

In 2011, I was working as an aircraft maintenance engineer at Cairns International airport. I was rostered on night shift and cyclone Yasi, a Cat. 5 storm was heading directly for Cairns. So the decision was made to close the airport early the next day, but also to evacuate the 2 hospitals in Cairns using RAAF aircraft. Around 2200 hours C17 and C130 aircraft started arriving for this evacuation. About 6 planes if my memory serves me correctly. Before the fleet of ambulances started arriving, dozens of freight pallets were unloaded. I asked an airport official what was being offloaded. His reply: "About 50, 000 body bags. This is a really big cyclone." Thankfully they were not required. In over 40 years in Cairns, and going through many cyclones, this was the first time that evacuations were carried out before the arrival of a cyclone. Now retired and have moved south.

[tehepikduk]

My friend's mom works for south west airlines and they found a bomb. He called me and he was so scared. The bombsquad was called in and it didn't go off.

[ChakkyCharizard]

My grandfather refueled planes at an airport after getting out of the Air Force. Evidently, in the 70s no one gave much of a shit if you just brought your kid to work and let him wander around the tarmac with you, so my dad was taught how to refuel airplanes at a young age. Usually nothing much bigger than a turboprop, but once he let my dad, a then 13-year-old boy, refuel a Boeing 727 before its next flight...

[patmaurer]

Interesting how, in an emergency a business can give away inventory, strangers help each other, all of the superficial and selfish things that keep us apart just don't matter. How much better life would be if it didn't take a crisis for us to feel free to be our best selves!

[Winnipegger]

I was flying home from Las Vegas with my parents (we live in Canada), and I wound up getting pulled for a secondary search thanks to the half pound of M&Ms and full pound of Hershey's kisses I had in my carry-on. We laughed about it with the security guy after he did the search.

[masterofelements]

If that happened in the States instead of Dubai there would be a major lawsuit

[sclemmons]

The airport I worked for had courtesy phones throughout the building. My phone kept ringing from a courtesy phone, so I checked the surveillance system cameras and saw 2 small boys hangup calling the courtesy phone. While one kid was holding the handset, I see his brother turn around, get wide eyed, then run away. I see their mom come into the camera view, slap the boy holding the phone on the opposite side of his head from the ear he was holding the phone up to. he drops the phone, his mom hangs it up, then she grabs both of them and storms off. What made me crack up was hearing the "thud" over the phone. A coworker came in just as it ended and I played back the surveillance camera for him to show him why I was laughing.

[Jedidiah_Martin_]

6:56 Only thing that would have been funnier: (grinning) _"Who do you think had them put that in there?"_

[thirdwheelau]

9:09 I've had it with these motherfucking whales on this motherfucking plane!

[nightigal]

Got pulled aside while going through security. Turns out M&m's look like tnt flacks to the X-ray. The security guard told me what was up, scanned the M&m's with a more high tech scanner than sent me on my way with the bag of M&m's.