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Holiday Travels and Christmas Traditions
(Lara cut her head off for the recording, if you are watching see if you can see and how Tyler tried to cover it up)
Monique and her friends reminisce about memorable holiday moments, discuss their travel plans for Christmas, and exchange thoughtful gifts in this festive episode. They share insights on flying during the holiday season, gift-giving practices for crew and agents, and travel tips for Christmas markets. The conversation also dives into their favorite Christmas movies, childhood memories, and unique holiday experiences. Enjoy a light-hearted and joyful discussion perfect for the holiday season.
00:00 Practicing Smiles and Christmas Greetings
02:08 Opening Christmas Presents
05:06 Holiday Travel Plans and Stories
15:42 Christmas Markets and Travel Tips
27:09 The Art of Upgrading: Strategies and Stories
27:24 Unexpected Encounters and Upgrades
28:18 Boarding Tactics and Perks
31:23 Cultural Differences in Gift Giving
37:33 Aviation Dramas and Recommendations
44:13 Christmas Memories and Traditions
46:26 Rants and Raves: Airport Decorations
55:07 Concluding Thoughts and Farewells
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Non Rev Lounge Ep. 206: Adventures, Mishaps, and Holiday Reflections
In the latest episode of the Non Rev Lounge, Laura, Monique, and Tyler return to Lara's kitchen to discuss their experiences over the past week, including receiving a positive response to their YouTube content. They share stories about vacation trips, Thanksgiving celebrations, and discuss the implications of travel benefits such as D1 vacation passes. Tyler shares a personal anecdote about misplacing his wallet during a trip, which is eventually returned by a listener who found it. They also reflect on Thanksgiving dinners, both good and bad, and their respective travel highlights of the year, making plans for the next year's vacations and discussing some notable memorable moments and trips. The episode concludes with a call to the audience to share their favorite travel experiences and reflections on the year.
00:00 Welcome to the Non Rev Lounge
01:28 YouTube Adventures and OnlyFans Jokes
04:25 Travel Tales and Hotel Experiences
08:28 Thanksgiving Stories and Family Time
10:07 The D1 Vacation Pass Dilemma
21:08 Lost Wallet Drama
24:33 Lost Wallet Saga
25:36 Reunion in Charlotte
26:29 Aviation Enthusiast Encounter
30:37 Year-End Reflections
31:27 Travel Highlights of the Year
34:01 Podcast Milestones
37:47 Birthday Celebration
45:33 Looking Forward to Next Year
46:15 Listener Engagement
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Celebrating Four Years of Non-Rev Lounge: Introduction and Memorable Moments
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In this episode, Monique, Tyler, and Lara introduce themselves and discuss the origins and growth of their podcast, Non-Rev Lounge, which is celebrating its four-year anniversary. The hosts share their backgrounds in the airline industry and talk about why they started the podcast. They recount memorable travel and work stories, including Lara's challenging encounter with an unruly passenger and Tyler’s experience with Delta. The episode also highlights the benefits of non-revving, StaffTraveler's role in their non-rev journey, and how it has helped them. Finally, they encourage listeners to engage with their content on YouTube and share their favorite StaffTraveler experiences.
00:00 Welcome to the Non Rev Lounge
01:00 Podcast Beginnings and Milestones
01:46 Meet the Hosts
03:40 The Inspiration Behind the Podcast
06:58 Memorable Guest Appearances
09:05 Funny Work Stories
14:30 Travel Tales
20:53 Domestic Flight Adventures
22:05 Dog on a Plane: The Chaos Begins
23:19 Dog Drama and Vaping Violations
24:07 Alcohol and Aggression at 30,000 Feet
25:54 Handling Unruly Passengers
28:01 Law Enforcement to the Rescue
33:40 The Importance of Staff Traveler
41:15 Travel Stories and Family Memories
44:31 Podcast Wrap-Up and Listener Engagement
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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 StoryDon’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!🍗🦃StaffTraveler Is offering a 10% code for any of our listeners who buy their eSIM.
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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 agentDoug 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 40They did everything from the shopping for the flight, loading the luggage, cleaning the aircraft and washing the dishesShe was America West so that got her ready! Taiwan, Naples, China, JapanNon 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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We are in the 200 club as well as the 100,000 download club.
(**) 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 guestCroatia 🇭🇷 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.comTheir 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, etcIf Brittany is around….be prepared for an emergency!
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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!
A love story ❤️His career as an author Boeing or Airbus?Cochise College like prior guest, Kayla The PilotHow he started as an Alaskan bush pilotcapnaux.comAviation Dad and MomNon reving during CovidFlying for a Flagship airline Philippine AirlinesForeign carrier service vs US Service
Aviation Captain, bush pilot, travel enthusiast, pilot mentor, blogger and published author! Really, is there anything this man cannot do?
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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 lettersDayton Air Force Museum is a must see for every Avgeek!Thanks Sarah, Chaz, Daniel, Robert and Jesse!The top 5 airports in the USADon’t forget that your airline DEPENDENTS can now have their own StaffTraveler accounts! 🙌🏆Also book your next cruise or hotel with StaffTraveler! You’ll find the BEST rates!
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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 mergerFirst 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 CollegeMoving 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!
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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 = CastlesLara gives her advice on sleeping again with jet lagNon rev nightmare coming homeTyler 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 🤣StaffTraveler Is offering a 10% code for any of our listeners who buy their eSIM.
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Dorkfest!!
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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Lucky for us that 🔥Dane The Dentist/Ramper and Rachel The Flight Attendant/Health Coach with the nice butt, stuck around for another fun episode! We were having so much fun 🙌
We discuss airline employee cartels! Paying for shifts🎶 Get your money for nothing, and your chicks fo free🎶Lara doesn’t want your crappy domestic trips….but feel free to send a dic$ pic 🤣Tyler Rants (again 🙄) oh, and so do the rest of us! Passenger Shaming incidents NEVER snap your fingers at Rachel! 😡Pro Tip: Or any other flight attendant!Rachel has a joke! Where would you travel if your airline gave you two positive space passes?What travel advice would our panel give others!!!Pro Tip: Fairbanks, Alaska is the best place to view the Northern Lights 🤯What is something our panel has learned this last year while traveling?This section is all about Pro Tips!
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Our guest Diana is a full-time nurse and a part-time ramp worker. She is Tyler's coworker and used to be Katie’s (Tyler's Wife) co-worker and definitely she prefers Katie. 🤣
Diana is just the cutest ramper Lara has ever seen!Two jobs! Nurse at the Children’s Hospital and a ramper! Main line transfer! But no vacay baby 🏖️Loving those flight benefits!Not every beautiful woman on the ramp is gay! Loves traveling, the cultures, the people…There’s ⚖️ between two jobs!Travel groups are the way to go!! Make decisions for you!Group tours need a debrief session!Kenya! 🇰🇪 Tents in the savanna!International trips: Bali, Cape Town!Swimming with 🦈Do local tours so you get told what’s really happening!Spontaneity is the key 🔑 for all of us non revs!!Where to next?? Prague and Zurich solo! Don’t book your hotel until inflight! Jordan 🇯🇴 and Petra! Punked a friend story!This girl has traveled 🙌
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Did Dane get arrested, you bet he did. Was it in a foreign country Yep. Everyone is going to love this episode!
Dentist, ramper, photographer, traveler and easy on the eye TOO!What is a seasonal employee?Pay load optimized, over grossed and weight restricted mean the same thing!Drove by himself through Austria 🇦🇹 and the Italian alps 🇮🇹 so he could take some phenomenal photos 🙌 while hiking!Airline friends fly in for dental work!Lara says Dane needs to add Botox to his practice! 💉Flew to Munich to see T Swift! Octoberfest!! Go authentic in your attire!Anne Frank museum, cheese and beer boat tour! Book early as Anne Frank sells out quickly! PRO TIP: When something is sold out, try a 3rd party vendor like Trip Advisor or Viator, etc…Day trip to Oregon for photography!Yep! The embarrassing story is the arrest! 🤣🤣🤣StaffTraveler Is offering a 10% code for any of our listeners who buy their eSIM.
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This week we have Brenna Join us to talk about some of her travels. She grew up her entire life as a Non Rev and has seen the world! 🌎
Brenna’s parents are prior America West Airlines! Dad is an Airbus Capt and retired military pilot. Mom is a retired AWA CSR and Flight Attendant.Studied Global Studies, duh! Got a Master’s at Thunderbird!Peru, Greece, Macedonia, Brussels for school abroad!Water taxis are the same as regular taxi in Sydney.Jet lag is real 😱River Cruise with her mom down the Danube.Ama Waterways is the name of the cruise line purchased through Perx ( don’t forget your nonrevlounge30 discount!River cruises are more intimate than the giant ocean liners.30 plus countries she’s traveledAirport Proficiency Test
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We meet Rachel a flight attendant for a US carrier. She ZEDs everywhere! Rachel speaks French and has been to Paris many times. She decided she wanted to go to the Olympics!
Someone pushed Rachel into applying for a flight attendant position. She applied to appease them!She was meant to be an FA!Oh, to be young and beautiful! The pilot saw her and re-opened the door to put Rachel on!How does your airline hire such funny people?Rachel is a BIG fan of our wonderful sponsor StaffTraveler (yes, we ARE sucking up! 🤣)How Rachel got a Premium Plus seat to Paris! Trying to get tickets to Olympic eventsConnecting with an old hostel friend at the OlympicsRachel’s embarrassing story!Find Rachel on IG at: @rhutchi5
YouTube: @RachelHutchi5
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This week we had Mathew join us and share some of his travel trips and well as his really cool experiences!
The Next Trip Podcast debates their airline's new “Full Transparency” policy so we join in! Mathew grew up as a non rev kid!Fell in ❤️ with first class!Met Rosie and blinded her with Paris for dinner!This Guy M + Rosie = 💒 = 🍼🚼School district changes their break schedule so no Q Suite on Qatar! 😩Taking a shower onboard ✈️Mystery Shopper!!!!About credit card points: Don’t yell at your spouse if they use the wrong credit card! Even the most seasoned traveler can miss their flight 🤦♀️Around The World 🌎 You can watch Matthew’s travels on Instagram @thisguymStaffTraveler Is offering a 10% code for any of our listeners who buy their eSIM.
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WE DIDN’T START THE FIRE!!
Ode to Billy Joel Phoenix London market changesWhat the heck is Tuachan?Crowdstrike! Blue screen of deathWhere was Rico?Southwest BIG changesTyler is now a Hyatt Globalist!!🙌Tyler is all over plane spottingHenry the EP gets Tyler into the ultimate lounge!Dayton Air ShowOlympics!
So much happening in our aviation world!!
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