Welcome to our fleet, tail # BK763!!

Hello again, HAPPY FRIDAY!!! 2/20/09

As promised, I wanted to post some pictures of our brand NEW 767 we just added to our fleet this week!! Today I had the privelage of flying not ONE but TWO (long) legs on it... spending a total of 11+ hours on this beautiful new bird and getting to know the ins and outs of it before most of my fellow crew members. :-) Lucky me!



























Welcome to the new aircraft, from the L2 Door. Aircraft LEFT (facing the cockpit, forward), 2nd door from the front. Usually the doors are manual... but when I was assigned this I was shocked to find that I had a "MAIN DOOR UP" button"!!! Meaning that when we cross-check our doors to make sure they are armed/disarmed, or clear to open/not clear to open.. All I have to do is PUSH A BUTTON!! Seems so simple, but a simple mistake would cost me my company thousands of dollars (a blown slide), or me (my JOB!) Blown slides are a death threat in our company. Can't stress that enough!

This is a shot of C/D zones in the aircraft... everything from L2 to the back. Look at those seatcovers... classy, eh? I like them! Unlike our other 767's, we have 4 seats in the middle instead of 3. Still 2 on each aisle.

Here's the forward door to the cockpit. (FLIGHT DECK DOOR.) All cockpits on 767's apparently look the same, so when we got this NEW a/c, the pilots weren't even phased. BUT WE WERE!!! Where was the coffee?? Extra Dr. Pepper? Crew Meals?? ICE? Meal carts? Beverage carts? PICKUP BAGS??? Ahhh--- the adaptations we had to make to the new aircraft were tough... but we managed. :-)


The flight deck is obviously the most important part of the aircraft....

Usually, (L1) fixes the pilots up with beverages as theyre doing paperwork before we take off, and an extra garbage bag for their trash.. then we feed them first with their own seperate meals (avoiding food poisoning of any sorts), set them up with coffee or anything they need, and we ALSO gladly offer to take the most valuable seat in the house up front while one of them takes a break to stretch their legs (or take a leak, either or... :-)

These jumpseats are the most uncomfortable straps you could ever put on your shoulders, hands down. When that 10,000 ft. DING goes off, (where the fasten seatbelt sign is STILL on, but the flight attendants are free to roam about the cabin...) it's music to our ears so we're not death-strapped in anymore! (This is in the forward galley... where I was today!)

Taking a stroll back to the AFT galley... You thought YOUR kitchen had alot of cupboards? Try working in this galley!!! (And serving 205 troops!) CHEERS to my crew members that were assigned to this position and executed their duties without a flaw.. for the first time EVER on a new aircraft with NO immediate training!
Every simple request requires you to open and shut a different galley door. But... IT KEEPS US AWAKE!!!! We love it!!! Would you like a snack???

"Business Class"... aka, Section A/part 2. Still a great movie screen... not quite commanders of the troops but those almost as important and also in need of more comfortable seats. Either way... first class passengers in my eyes! Just easy as pie. All of them like orange juice with no ice? Do you KNOW how easy it is to walk through the cabin with just a quart of orange juice and a smile? ;-)

FIRST CLASS... for Commanders and VIP's only. Beverages and meals served by HAND by the lead and the R1 flight attendant.

EEK!!! R1A and R1 flight attendant jump seats up front on the new 767. SO TIGHT! 30 second review of emergency equipment and procedures is a necessity! In case we're stuck in our jumpseats. (KIDDING... we're trained for the worst, I promise.)

Hope you get a nice visual of our new A/C and what we're working with every day! I personally love it, and hope it stays around. We're taking it home tomorrow to RFD apparently... depending on this snow storm thats supposed to hit overnight?

I LOVE the spontaneous layovers in random cities...

CHEERS!

-Lisa

P.S. You will LOVE my new pics from NEW BERN, NC... Just wait!!!