Why We'll Take Group Travel Over Solo Travel (Especially With Y'all!)

Ever wonder if you'd thrive wandering the streets of Paris solo or if you're better off swapping stories over cocktails with new travel buddies in Bali? In this episode, we’re soaring into the pros and cons of solo vs. group travel—from creepy stares at 35,000 feet to magical nights under the Eiffel Tower. We’re opening up about our own travel habits, biggest surprises, and a few hilarious (and slightly sketchy) stories from our journeys. We’ll also chat about how our flight attendant perks have shaped the way we travel, why we were originally hesitant about group trips, and what changed our minds. Plus, we share an emotional listener story that'll have you reaching for the tissues.

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Episode Highlights:

[1:00] - Drew gets creepily stared at by a passenger—and we try to unpack the serial killer vibes.
[3:25] - Rich's magical Paris layover and surprise encounter with Two Guys on a Plane fans.
[6:20] - Our initial fear of group travel and how Bali totally changed the game.
[8:00] - Why Drew's idea of "solo travel" really just means traveling with Rich.
[10:20] - The Airbnb horror story with chain-smoking hosts and red mattresses.
[13:08] - That time we maybe kind of almost got murdered in Greece… or not?
[15:42] - What actually made our Bali group trip so magical (spoiler: it wasn’t just the food).
[18:41] - Our hybrid travel style: freedom + structure = the perfect itinerary.
[22:06] - Spicy suckling pig, sweating through dinner, and trying new foods.
[23:00] - Feeling safe and supported: why group travel opens doors for everyone.
[24:06] - Built-in friends, low stress, and why you should travel with us.
[26:43] - Listener story: CPR at 35,000 feet and a beautiful reunion in the skies.
[28:21] - Shout out to our amazing community, Patreon supporters, and what’s next.

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Transcript

Rich: 0:00

Have ever wondered what your flight attendants are really talking about behind the galley curtain? Welcome

Andrew: 0:06

to Two guys on a plane. Your go to podcast for an insider look at flight attendant life.

Rich: 0:11

We're your hosts, rich and Drew, and we're here to tell you what really goes on at 35,000 feet.

Andrew: 0:16

So sit back, relax. We're ready for takeoff.

Rich: 0:21

All right, everybody, welcome back to two guys on a plane. We are so excited to have you here for this episode. Today we are going to answer the age old question, to solo travel, or not to solo travel. As you guys know, we've recently started doing some group trips, and honestly, we weren't sure about it when we first started doing it. I think both of us were a little hesitant. You know, what is a group trip? What is the group dynamic gonna be like? And it turned out to be kind of an epic layover, but it's definitely a topic that we love discussing, and we love kind of talking back and forth, because there's definitely pros and cons to both. So we are going to talk about that today on our episode. But first, Andrew, how's flying going lately?

Andrew: 0:59

Oh my god. I it has been crazy. I know I say this every time, but it has literally been insane. This week, I bid the mid cabin position. And so the most people, the most people of all of the positions on the airplane, I was sitting on the jump seat the other day ready for takeoff, and this guy is just staring at me, and I was like, do something, get your book out. Like, why are you staring at me? He sat there for the entire flight with nothing. He brought nothing with him. He just sat there and stared at me. He was raw, dogging

Unknown: 1:32

it. Yes,

Andrew: 1:34

he cranked me out so much. And it's not like you can ask him if he's a serial killer, because that was my like, first, my gut reaction was to be

Rich: 1:40

like, I think he's obviously a serial killer. You don't ask a serial killer if there is serial killer, because you'll be one of the next ones.

Andrew: 1:48

Yes. But also, you don't ask somebody who's crazy, why they're crazy. Like, point it out to him. But like, don't you have a Do you have a book? Do you have headphones? There something to do. Should you sleep now? Can you stop staring at me? Yeah, it was like two hours of just staring at me. I really

Rich: 2:09

don't understand people that do that. I mean, on some on some level, like I understand sitting there and kind of just being with your thoughts and kind of soaking it all in. But the people doing that don't look like they're doing that. They look like they're plotting murder.

Andrew: 2:23

Okay? And when I'm sitting with you, it's fine, like I get that we're sitting face to face, like you don't have a lot of other places to look, but like, every time I walked by, we were staring at Andrew, and I was like, either give me your phone number or close your eyes and take a nap. Because I'm I'm over this. It was so creepy to me. So creepy.

Rich: 2:40

Yeah, I completely understand that. Yeah. What about you? How's flying been for rich flying for me has been, I said this a couple weeks ago, and I think I'm just kind of on a winning streak lately with good crews. I know I'm jinxing myself. I do for like, a crap trip. It's coming. You guys, I know it because I'm like, it's like, when you have KCM and like, you don't get random that security for so long, and

Andrew: 3:04

you're like, it's like, every time you vote, they're like, that's how I feel.

Rich: 3:08

Like it's gonna happen this summer with cruise. I'm just gonna hit this like shit, wave of just crazy people. But luckily, my trips have been good.

Andrew: 3:17

Don't do that to him. If you see rich on your trip, please be nice to him this summer, because I cannot handle him getting home. About you. I can't do it. Yeah.

Rich: 3:25

So I got lucky. I just had this actually amazing trip to Paris. The crew was great. We had a really nice time working together, and nobody really wanted to hang out on the layover. Everyone was kind of doing their

Andrew: 3:35

own you're in Paris. You don't need anyone to hang out with. You grab a mini split and run to the Eiffel Tower and have a great time. One

Rich: 3:40

of those cities. Wandering alone is like magic. But in typical flight attendant fashion, I started my layover at the grocery store, as one does, and I of course, just for him, it's more for me, if he does it for me, it is an act of love. I went and stocked up on French butter. And for those of you that don't know, Mom, we always go to the grocery store in Paris, and we stock up on French butter. Oh, Mom

Andrew: 4:02

knows, because she tries to get you to bring it home for her too. It is

Rich: 4:06

a superior butter. And I used to make fun of senior flight attendants for doing this, and I've become that girl, and I do not care. It's so good. So anyways, to get to the point of the story, I was in this grocery store, I hunched over this like dairy case, like, just stocking up. I think I got like, 10 or 12 sticks of butter, and I'm like, sweating because it was kind of warm that day, and I just, like, don't look great, and I'm hunched over, and I've just got an arm full of butter, and I just hear two guys on a plane. Is that? Is that you, I could just picture it. The visual is strong, yeah, me and an arm full of me. And, I mean, you could deny it at that point. And I was like, Hey, how's it going? And of course, it was a crew from WestJet, a Canadian airline, and we ended up hanging out on this layover and having fun, best time. Yeah, it was funny. It's just like, total. Really weird situation where they were talking, and I was like, What are you guys doing later? And like, they had a girl on their trip that was, like, brand new, and it was her first time. And we just had so much fun, just out and about bouncing cafe to cafe and just having a magical time. So listen, I've been really lucky lately. He was so

Andrew: 5:17

mad at you right now, why I get some serial killer who's like, for two hours, and you get some awesome experience with some other airline in Paris.

Rich: 5:26

Yeah, Andrew, how's your day? I had a serial killer rich, how's your day? I had a magical day in Paris. We do not live the same life. We don't. We really don't, and this is why we're here. And yet, the flight attendant job is still it's so much, such an interesting, magical place. But anyways, we're gonna get into it today. We're gonna talk about solo travel and group travel and that I, before we started doing group travel, I really was one of those people who was like, group travel is not for me. I think I just had some, like, weird experiences in college where it was like, you know, people you didn't really know or really like or vibe with like, end up on a troop, troop, a group trip together. We should start calling that a troop. And we just, you know, typos, yeah, exactly. We it just ended up, I don't know, with a weird vibe. And then we kind of took a chance. Last year, we planned a trip to Bali. We had people ranging from ages 20 to 71 or something like that. And you think, Well, gosh, I don't know about this. And then you get there and you're like, okay, the people that follow two guys on a plane are probably going to be funny people, people who like to have a good time. So you hope that's what's showing Right, exactly. So that's what we did, and it was fantastic. So we decided to do again. But yeah, before that, solo travel for me was always like, okay, I can do my own schedule. I can, you know, wake up when I want. I can go places when I want. I have nobody to answer to. And I think I always really liked solo travel for that reason. What about you? How do you

Andrew: 6:59

feel about solo when I say solo travel though, I mean like me and a significant other, so like you and I, I feel like that's what I consider solo travel. I don't do a lot, like just on my own. I'm not really adventurous like that. I should be, I will be, I promise, at some point. But for me, solo travel is like with a significant other. So all of my solo travel has been with you, and I just, I enjoy it a lot. I'm not your typical traveler. I have been spoiled with flight benefits for a long portion of my life. So I think a lot of people, like, save up to go places as like, a dream vacation. This is the only time I've ever gonna be here, and because I've had flight benefits for so long, I'm like, Oh, I can come back next week if I want. So, like, I don't need to do anything while I'm traveling like we go. I have an expectation of like, one or two things that I want to see, but otherwise my day is filled with like, cafes and patios and parks and just really leisurely bumming around doing whatever I want to do. So the idea of group travel really scared me because I didn't want a schedule. Because I don't travel like anyone else. I don't I go. I don't do anything. I don't need to do anything. You do things. I do do things, but I don't need to do any things. Like, you know, you travel with certain people. And like, the whole day is planned. Your whole day is planned away. They're like, we have breakfast at 9am at this cafe. We're gonna go to this museum and that museum, and we're gonna go to this and that, and this and that, and then, you know, I don't travel that way, no, because I wake up at noon and I'm like, should we go to a cafe today? There's an art museum I wanted to see, or a library. I we do remember that day we spent like, half a day in a library, because it was just a magical experience. We went library, the one in Budapest?

Rich: 8:49

Library, I don't remember, but it was the one that was a bar. Was it a bar? We went to a place we spent all day there? Yeah, we're very intellectual, literary people. Were over here, like, the library. I think it

Andrew: 9:03

was a bar. Okay, fine. We're gonna have to think more about this, because I don't actually remember. It wasn't Budapest. I lied. It wasn't Budapest, but there was somewhere where we went that we spent like five hours of our day just in a library. It's so funny. It was like some old house that they converted to a library, and it was just beautiful. No, it was Greece. That's where it was. The library was in Greece, and I'm gonna have to find it now, but I remember spending a lot of time in it, but that's the traveler that

Rich: 9:27

I am. We'll have to report back to you guys on that, because I have no recollection of this place. Apparently, I thought we were in a bar, so who

Andrew: 9:34

knows? There probably was one there, because that's what we do. That's

Rich: 9:37

definitely like a flip side for for solo travel, though, is like, as fun as it is sometimes to kind of go at your own pace. Sometimes I need a little bit of a schedule to, like, force me to do something, because part of me really wants to, like, live like a local and visit a place like a local and go sit in a cafe and go to a restaurant or a hole in the wall, or a stroll just leisurely through the city. Yeah. And then part of me is like, I want to run around and do 100 things and see all the tourist stuff, and see all the monuments and the things people talk about, because, you know, you want to feel like you've really been there and you've experienced it all too, yeah. So I definitely go back and forth on that.

Andrew: 10:12

But then there's a story that you have about that Airbnb, that one time that just terrifies me and it lives in the back of my brain. And so I

Rich: 10:21

think this is yeah. So that are you talking about the birthday trip that you tell mattress? Yeah. Okay, yeah. So I don't know if you guys are hotel people or Airbnb people. We're a little bit of both. I would say we definitely like to mix it up and feel free to DM us or comment and let us know what you think about this, because some people are very much into Airbnbs, and some people are not. And after this trip, you would think I wouldn't have been anymore. This

Andrew: 10:45

story lives rent free in my brain every time we go to Bucha, making it

Rich: 10:49

sound like it's that, like, hostile movie or something. But, um, yeah, we basically it was my friend Linda and I. It wasn't quite solo travel, but we were new hire flight attendants. We had no money, and she's like, Oh, I found this Airbnb in Switzerland. It's only, like, 4040 francs a night or something. And I'm, you don't know anything about Switzerland, and I'm like, that seems reasonable. And I mean, Switzerland, everything is super expensive, so the 40 Franks a night, or whatever it was, should have been probably a major red flag, but it wasn't, for some reason. And so we get there, and it's like, a two bedroom apartment, and this little old lady who chain smokes, like, opens the door and she's like, I'm not even gonna try to do an accent, actually, because I'm gonna ruin it. But I was like, Oh, are we, like, interrupting this lady? Are we with the wrong address? And Linda's like, Oh, it's a shared space Airbnb. And I was like, I shared who what? Now I don't think that this is for me, but also, again, I'm a broke new hire. I don't have any money, so I'm like, I don't know if this is really a good idea or not, but we end up Linda and her bonded. Of course, they're both smoking and just having a great time, like hanging out in the kitchen, drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes. She shows this to her bedroom, and it's literally just this, like, empty room with these two red mattresses on the floor, and there were sheets, but the mattresses reminded me of those, like, you know, in preschool, when they have those, like, little folded up mats that, like lay out for kids to nap on. That's what it looked and felt like,

Andrew: 12:21

Why do you think this lives weren't free every time I smoke an Airbnb, yeah, I'm like, no shared spaces

Rich: 12:26

blue. I have serious transitions now. But and then, oh, and the dog. There was a dog. I forget it had, like, a weird little Italian name too. Like, I don't even, I know that sounds crazy, but I don't remember what the dog's name was. Why? Why am I blanking on what it was, but the important fact, like little mafia dog, but, like, literally, just run up and just bite your shin and then be like, ah and just attack you. So it was an experience. I went back to Switzerland. Turned out I loved it when I went and got my own accommodations. But yeah, so I could see why people are skeptical of solo travel. Do you have any like crazy solo, solo ish travel stories that you can think of? Remember

Andrew: 13:06

that time we almost got murdered in Greece?

Rich: 13:09

Okay, we didn't almost get murdered in Greece. We didn't know until afterwards, though, but we almost got murdered we well, we might actually be accomplices, is really what it comes down to. So maybe we shouldn't air this episode, but do tell us what happened.

Andrew: 13:25

Well, you remember, we had this lovely Airbnb in Mykonos, and the owner was driving us to our boat to move on to the next city, and we were thanking her for the accommodations, and she was like, oh yes, Mykonos, it's a lovely city. You can be so free here. It's one of the best cities in Greece. And we were Christina,

Unknown: 13:45

we love.

Andrew: 13:46

And she was just this, like, magical little woman. She was beautiful. It was so nice. And we were thanking her for allowing us to stay in the property. And she was like, yes, my husband and I built it together. We built a house for me, a house for him, and a house for our daughter. And we were like, Oh, we met your daughter. Yeah, it was a beautiful property. We met your daughter. We noticed that the two of you share it. And she was like, Yes, we do. My husband died as the last nail was being put on the final building. His ladder just fell, and he fell down the cliff to his death. And we were like, what? She was like, Yes, I was there. I watched the whole thing. We were

Rich: 14:21

like, what she said so nonchalantly to us too, like, while we were driving up this massive Hill. And she was like, yes, these three homes. And then they took many months. And my husband, he worked so hard, and she was just like, so late into how dedicated the

Andrew: 14:39

life that I want to live. And Mykonos is so free and so beautiful. You should move here. You'll love it.

Unknown: 14:46

We were like, you know, maybe Christina, don't ask us to build anything so

Rich: 14:53

weird that, as the last nail was put in and the project was complete, he fell. Down the hill, off the ladder, like it was just one of those things where we were like, story is a little too convenient. Christina, you're leaving out some details, leaving out a lot. Where's your husband, right?

Andrew: 15:11

And that's how the story of how we almost got murdered and

Rich: 15:15

murdered and or maybe accomplices. TVD, we'll report back on that. But yeah, so we are now going to talk about group travel, because solo travel, as you can tell from some of our experiences, maybe we'd be better off with someone guiding us who's actually an expert, and I think that's why we started group travel. But what, what were some of your favorite things about traveling with a group what did you love about our trip to Bali? All

Andrew: 15:43

of it, every single piece of it. I cannot tell you how magical. I mean, you were there. You know how magical it was? I do. I cannot express enough how magical this experience was for me. First of all, you know how terrified I was to go in the first place. I did not want to go to group travel. I don't have the temperament for it, I am like an angry cat most days. I like to do my own thing, and I need to be fed every 20 minutes, and if you get too close to me, I will scratch you. Just my temperament. Just showing you

Rich: 16:14

as one of those like pissed off house cats is I'm just gonna throw your phone solid, accurate description of you. I think I've ever heard,

Andrew: 16:23

I'm just an angry Yeah, all the time. It's pretty spot on. So I was worried that I wouldn't fit into the group, or, like, it would be too much group for me, and it wasn't. I really. I think we made smart decisions and that we didn't try to fill the day. There was plenty of free time. We had, like, mornings, and there were, like, maybe one or two adventures every day that encompass, like four hours, and then we left everyone free to do whatever they wanted to do. And I just, I really loved it. I keep saying I was surprised at the people that showed up and how well we got together. I don't know why. I mean, they follow us. They follow our page. They're following along in this humorous journey. Obviously, they share our humor, right? And even though we like left so much free time if we weren't out doing something with them, we ended up at a pool, drinking, hanging out. It was like the best layover

Rich: 17:13

ever. Yeah, I think, I think you're right, and I I want to go back to what you said initially about me being an angry guy on an attention about being an angry cat because you said something that you didn't want to go initially. And I think that's funny and also a good point, because as with most of our ventures, I am very much the planner, planner instigator. Doer, the instigator. Yeah, I know. What other words, can we come up with for me? But I am usually the one that's like, oh, I have this crazy idea. Want to hear it. And you're like, No, I don't know, do I? And it's always like, it doesn't matter, anyway, you're gonna make me do it. And fortunately, for the most part, it's worked out really well. But I think I felt the same way. I think, I think traveling with like minded people, it just sounded like too cool of an opportunity to pass up. And I was like, we give one trip a try. If it sucks, we never do it again. And we did it, and we ended up loving it. And I swear I wasn't a fan of the group travel idea, because I really was just so nervous about just so many things, all the factors of like, what could go wrong, what could happen, what could come up. And I really ended up enjoying so many different factors about it. I mean, I think the fact that we got to pick our own itinerary, yeah, really helped a lot, because I've always signed up for other people's trips, and you don't have control over that. And obviously the people that come on our trip are choosing our itinerary that we've already planned for you. But I think the thing about

Andrew: 18:42

it we're learning them, and we're getting feedback from people not too like the people that are going we want your feedback so we can tailor these previous

Rich: 18:50

people weigh in on some of our future itineraries. And that's been a really cool experience to kind of make everybody feel like they're part of it. But I think the thing about it is we want to kind of have a hybrid trip, like we want those days where you've got activity after activity. We're engaging in things, we're immersing in local culture, we're trying new foods, we're doing all these things. But we also want people to have downtime. We want there to be downtime on the trip. We want everybody to kind of have a chance to themselves, to go out and explore. Some people want to go shopping. Some people want to go to a cafe, some people want to go wine tasting and things like that. And I love these trips because we've really like we have the kind of trip where we can have an audience of people from 20 to 70 with all different activity types, all different body types, all different ages, backgrounds, whatever. And there's something for everybody, yes. And you know what I loved most? You know what I found I love most about group travel or these like plan trips, is that you just show up. Yeah, you just show up and everything's done, you walk into an event space, different for you, planning all of our adventures when everything is to wait in line. Her tickets, and I still have to wait in line to get in. And, like, none of those things happened here, like, you showed up and someone handed you tickets, and we're like, we're going through the special entrance, and you're in, you're You're in for it. And it wasn't like you were spending half of the day waiting for waiting in line to go see something right to get into a museum. Or, you know, do you remember that day solo travel? Do you remember that day we were at the louver, and we spent all day. We spent like, four hours in line to see the Mona Lisa, and we got, like, as far as the room. I mean, the louver is a very amazing place, but that is one of those tourist things where you're like, I'm so glad I went, but I don't. I need to go back when no one is there, no one night at the museum, correct? Yes. It's just, you're just like, shoulder to shoulder with people, and it's, it's a little chaotic, but that was that. I love that part. No, the like plan, yes, just show up there, yes. And then it's like, show for dinner, and tables are reserved. They're like, come right in. Let's have dinner. Show up in the lobby. If you think about nothing, you didn't even have to, like, order food. Most of the time, like, plates just appeared in front of you, plates of delicious food. So delicious things I wouldn't have ordered because, you know, I know that's so true. You go to a restaurant on a solo Yes, and you're like, I don't know what to order. What am I doing? But you go to some restaurant on one of these trips, yes, and you've got your like in somebody's house, like the tuna

Andrew: 21:23

in the banana leaf that we had in Bali. It was so good,

Rich: 21:27

absolutely. I loved that, because we tried so many foods. And you know me, I'm I say I'm adventurous, but I'm not. I'm picky as hell. And when it came to food, I was like, All right, I'll just eat whatever they put in front of me, even if I like it or don't like it or it doesn't look good. And I loved every bit. It was so good. I remember that one meal we had the suckling pig, if you were sitting over there sweating, rich does not eat spices. Rich does not eat spices. He is, like, dripping water. I am sweating so hard in Bali, it's already humid and, like, really warm, and then I'm eating this spicy suckling pig. I mean, it literally looked like he

Andrew: 22:01

was crying out of his forehead. He was like, dripping from the heat. I was like, I was proud of you.

Rich: 22:06

I was like, everyone was like, are you okay? And I was like, it's delicious. Oh, my God, that was so much fun. Another thing I love about group travel, aside from being able to just kind of do, like, just show up and be part of something is I also really love, like the safety aspect of it, like, we're going to Egypt later this year, and a lot of people signed up for that trip so quickly because they were saying to us, I've wanted to go there forever, and I was worried about being a queer person going alone, or being a woman traveling alone, and I just feel so much more safe in a group of people with an expert, trusted local guide. And that's one thing that I'm like, Okay, now let's pick destinations where, like, people don't, you know, need support and community and that sort of thing. And I love this because I think everyone's gonna have an incredible time, everyone's gonna be supported, everyone's gonna feel together on this trip. And

Andrew: 23:00

truthfully, we agree with you, particularly in Egypt. How many times have we planned and canceled a trip because we were like, is it the right time? Is it safe for us to be there? Like, should we actually go? And we have no qualms this time. I mean, we're very excited to go for that, the safety aspect of it. So why travel with us? Rich? We have three trips planned. Now we do have three trips planned,

Rich: 23:23

and I they're gonna be so much fun. And I just think that traveling, you know, with this group of people, especially because half the people on our next few trips have already been on trips with us, so we can actually, quite literally, guarantee that we know these are great people. And I just, I love it, because it's like built in friends. And I know that sounds so cliche and so cheesy, but like I said earlier, if you follow two guys on a plane and you like us enough to come on a group trip with us, you're probably funny, you probably have a great sense of humor, you're probably smart, and you probably love immersing in local culture and having a good time, and you definitely love a good layover. You definitely love a good layover. This is like the ultimate layover, and that's why you should travel with

Andrew: 24:06

this. And I promise I'll only maybe angry cat you. I can't promise I won't do it, but yeah, but

Rich: 24:11

we do currently have three trips available. We have Croatia, Egypt and Thailand, and all three of them are going to be amazing adventures. And we really hope you'll join us. If you want more information about these upcoming trips, please go to two guys on a plane.com/travel. And check it out. Check out the itineraries, and feel free to DM us if you have any questions. We are always happy to talk about travel, and we're for sure, going to do more trips. So if none of these trips work for you, stay tuned and subscribe to our email list. We will definitely let you know when our next adventure is planned. All right. And before we go, we wanted to do a quick little segment called, What would two guys do? WW, two. Gd, so this is where we read stories from you guys out loud on the podcast, and then tell you what we would do in that situation. So feel free to send us your stories. We love reading them. So. This one is from Tina. She's from Belgium, and she was flying to the Dominican Republic. She said, a few years ago, I worked a flight where we had to perform CPR, and a passenger while flying over the Atlantic Ocean, yikes. The man came to us claiming he wasn't feeling well and was suffering from pressure on his chest. He eventually became unresponsive and stopped breathing. So we immediately started CPR. Flight crew was informed, and we had at least an hour to go to the nearest airport to divert this man's wife was inconsolable, so a colleague stayed with her for comfort as we were working on her husband. Eventually, we were able to land and hand the patient over to ambulance personnel before they left, one of my colleagues gave her phone number to the wife, saying she would call if the doctors needed any extra information on what happened in flight. She also asked the wife that if she was up for it, to let us know afterwards if her husband was okay. We ended up not hearing anything for a couple of weeks, until she got a message from an unknown number. Well, it was the wife letting us know her husband pulled through and was released from hospital earlier that week, after some back and forth, she informed us they would try and take their trip to the Dominican Republic once again later that year, if there was any possibility that any of us would be working that flight again. She said her husband was reluctant to get on a plane, but he would feel better if he knew this is so sweet, I'm gonna cry, if he knew that the same crew would be with them again. We discussed it with head office and were able to plan that the three of us in the fight that the couple was taking would be there. They came on board with two whole bags of gifts for us, took pictures with us, and wrote us a very emotional letter, thanking us for our work on that unfortunate day, they told us all about the plans they had while on holiday. I'm definitely tearing up over here. And the husband thanked us for giving him a second chance at life. I've never cried so many tears of happiness. Oh,

Andrew: 26:43

I bet, wow. We don't ever know that is, that's an incredible story, and we don't ever hear don't

Rich: 26:49

That's wild. Yeah, for those of you who aren't flight attendants, like medical emergencies, obviously are so stressful, but a lot of times, whether you know, we get the outcome of what passenger situation on the flight or not? It's it's always uncertain what happens to them once they leave the aircraft and they're out of our hands, yeah, and so the fact that they got this much, I mean, closure almost, you know, right? Because it's so traumatic when these things happen. You You don't know what happened. And that is such a beautiful story, such

Andrew: 27:17

a beautiful story. Kudos to Tina and her crew for taking such good care of you, and you're a better human than I am, because I would not have signed up for round two of that. Who wouldn't have done it? No, I wouldn't have signed up for round two. It would have been no, but kudos to you all, because that is a beautiful story, and I'm glad that you got to find out and see them again. And I really love how that story ended, because I saw that going a different way, and I was ready to be like, No,

Rich: 27:46

I know that is an amazing story. Keep sending us your stories. If you go to two guys on a plane.com/podcast, you'll see a section where you can submit your stories about anything that happened to you on a flight, whether it was humorous or heartfelt. We want to hear it all. Keep sending us your stories and thank you guys so much for your support. We recently started a Patreon community online which is chock full of behind the scenes footage, early access to episodes, exclusive podcast merch, and so so much more. Every bit of support that you guys can send our way means so much. We could not do this podcast without you. Literally could not thank you for your support.

Andrew: 28:21

Thank you guys for everything. We appreciate it. Well, friends, that's all for today. Join us next time for more humor, heart and stories from our beverage

Rich: 28:31

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