Air Travel...

[Checkswrecks]

One thing has never changed about the airlines. They only care about frequent fliers!
Suckers!!

JW

I wish that were still true.

The airlines have realized that miles from a year ago cost them more as the price of fuel goes up.

Tried to book a seat lately with your FF miles? There's about 2 seats per plane allowed to FFmile users, so book early.

Not use them in more than a year? Better check your account!

 

[Tbird]

Just yesterday...JAN 30TH...an American Airlines flight from LA to MIA made an "emergency" landing in El Paso to

resolve a faulty circuit.

Those a$$-wipes made the passengers stay on the plane for 3 hours while they fixed the problem. WOULDN'T LET

THEM OFF THE PLANE. MORE TROUBLING...they wouldn't give them anything to drink UNLESS they had been on the

plane for over 4 hours. Who the hell made them the determiners of thirst need and comfort??? :madsmiley:

IF I had been on that plane...there'd been hell to pay then and certainly now!

 

[odot]

Let's not forget, pups, that air travel is the safest way to fly. You may not get there in time or in the best mood but, you will get there in one piece. So, sit down, quit yer whiney ass gash crying and drink yer four ounces of apple juice.

 

[Calimus]

Let's not forget, pups, that air travel is the safest way to fly.

Sorry, but that line right there needs to be immortalized. And damnit, it's only thursday

 

[odot]

Good catch.....I'll leave it alone for posterities sake.

 

[uctofeej]

Let's not forget, pups, that air travel is the safest way to fly. You may not get there in time or in the best mood but, you will get there in one piece. So, sit down, quit yer whiney ass gash crying and drink yer four ounces of apple juice.

At the prices they gash -- um, I mean, charge -- every minute of tardiness entitles said payor to one hour of bitching about their "service."

 

[juniorfjr]

Just a little devil's advocate here. I think the problem is that they don't charge enough. IIRC a flight cross country in the 70's was around $400. Now you can fly from Seattle to east coast for around $350 if you buy right. If you calculated in the rate of inflation in the last 35 years that flight should be around $3500. We have become accustomed to realatively inexpensive travel. Thirty years ago, people of moderate means did not fly, they took a train or a greyhound.

 

[Mike-H]

Just a little devil's advocate here. I think the problem is that they don't charge enough. IIRC a flight cross country in the 70's was around $400. Now you can fly from Seattle to east coast for around $350 if you buy right. If you calculated in the rate of inflation in the last 35 years that flight should be around $3500. We have become accustomed to realatively inexpensive travel. Thirty years ago, people of moderate means did not fly, they took a train or a greyhound.

Which still induced the same amount of bitching & complaining....only over a longer period of time :grin: .....

 

[uctofeej]

Just a little devil's advocate here. I think the problem is that they don't charge enough. IIRC a flight cross country in the 70's was around $400. Now you can fly from Seattle to east coast for around $350 if you buy right. If you calculated in the rate of inflation in the last 35 years that flight should be around $3500. We have become accustomed to realatively inexpensive travel. Thirty years ago, people of moderate means did not fly, they took a train or a greyhound.

I beg to differ. They have worked out the pricing mechanisms to a point where they are not losing money on flights. That's why weekeday travel and last minute ticket purchases cost more than, say, a ticket bought 3 weeks in advance with a Saturday night stay. I forget the name of the price theory applied, but it ain't the same as the 1970s model where only the monied can afford to fly.

If they put as much thought and effort into their scheduling and overall flight management as they do in their ticket pricing, they might actually have satisfied customers. As it stands, I don't usually get gouged on ticket price because I plan ahead. BUT, making me pay for a hotel room because THEY could not schedule a crew in an airport says something about their ability to operate the business. Couple that with Honzo's remarks, and I question the value this industry provides. The higher-ups are clearly waaaay out of their element when it comes to smooth operation.

Hell, avoiding the airlines is one of the major reasons I bought my FJR, but Louisiana to CA in one day just ain't possible...

 

[jet mechanic]

All this bitching is easy to fix.

Just become a CEO for some large, or medium, corporation and fly corporate!

All the comforts of home in flight, a flight department at your beck and call, avoid the busier airports or have a limo service waiting for you on the other side of the field away from the cattle, maybe stop on the way home for a round of golf or a bite to eat, you know, the good life!

 

[Toecutter]

... but Louisiana to CA in one day just ain't possible...

Skooter might disagree....

 

[twowheelnut]

Let's not forget, pups, that air travel is the safest way to fly. You may not get there in time or in the best mood but, you will get there in one piece. So, sit down, quit yer whiney ass gash crying and drink yer four ounces of apple juice.

Don't you have a toilet to clean?

 

[radman]

Reminds me of a porn flick I saw once upon a time............

 

[FJRChick]

I have to fly often so I just look at it as an opportunity to catch up on my reading

Although I wish they had more power outlets.

 

[uctofeej]

... but Louisiana to CA in one day just ain't possible (for anyone except a dood named Skooter)...

Skooter might disagree....

I knew there'd be one. just needed someone to identify him/her so I could add the caveat.

 

[Checkswrecks]

Let's not forget, pups, that air travel is the safest way to fly. You may not get there in time or in the best mood but, you will get there in one piece. So, sit down, quit yer whiney ass gash crying and drink yer four ounces of apple juice.

Wrong-O.

The inside of a yellow schoolbuss is actually the safest way to travel in the US.

Of course, there'd be 55 less kids in this world if I had to ride a schoolbus with them from DC to LA!

:huh:

 

[odot]

Yeah them ones without seatbelts rule...........plus, you could put them youngins on the black market to pay for fuel along the way.

 

[Checkswrecks]

Yeah them ones without seatbelts rule...........plus, you could put them youngins on the black market to pay for fuel along the way.

You're scaring me because I like the way you're thinking here!

 

[Scab]

...completely and totally sucks horse ****. This industry should just die and go the **** away. Now. No, make that yesterday. Hurry up and ******* die, you piece of **** enema-sucking ****** bags! You're not even worthy of handling the overflowing, month-old colostomy bags of leprosy riddled giant hagfish!

:***:

That is all.

You obviously got the plane with the conveyor belt.

 

[S76]

I'd rather stand on my head in a pile of manure than ride on an airline. The airlines are bad enough, but to make it worse is the security system where you have to wait in line till it feels like the mortor vehicle department.

But the fact that they suck so bad is the reason I have a job. Corporate aircraft mechanic.

Those people would rather buy their own planes, crew them, and maintain them rather than put up with the airlines and the terminals. They arirve at the airport and park 50 ft from where the plane is already running. Someone takes their bags from their trunk. (They do have to push the button to open the trunk so it isn't really effortless for them.) They step on the $25M plane and are rolling in less than 3 minutes. A stew is on board and has coffee ready, or a drink, and askes what time they would like their gormet dinner served. Then she starts getting out the china and crystal. The plane smells nice because of the fresh bouqet of flowers in the $4K vase that is set into a deep recepticle so it can't tip. If it's an extended flight the couch pulls out into a bed for sleeping. The aircraft has between 12 and 13 hours of fuel on board so you can make a mark on the globe just about anywhere and make it non stop. There is a video screen on the front and back cabin walls that constantly show your position on the globe along with the altitude, airspeed, time of arival etc. If you don't like that just pop in a DVD and watch a movie, hook you laptop to the plug in the wall for high speed internet access via satelite for $3 a minute, or talk on the satelite cell phone. And they can rest assured knowing that if their US citizen maintenance crew even suspects there may be something wrong with one of the aircrafts gizmos, it, and any other like it will have been replaced as a precaution so we can maintain our 99.8 % on time dispatch reliability rate.

Now that's air transportation! B)