Life We Know Why You Fly…
posted by December 13 at 9:41 AM
on…other airlines. For the FOURTH TIME in FOUR WEEKS my American Airlines flights have all been cancelled. I’m bouncing around the country today, trying to get home. My original flights, cancelled. My re-booked flights, cancelled. The flights I’m booked on now? Delayed.
It’s like they do it on purpose.
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We need Mr. Garrison to mass market the "It."
"It sure beats the airlines."
Headline typo?
I've quit flying American unless absolutely necessary... Their planes are old, the flight attendants are usually not happy campers, and the flights I have taken with them usually are late or cancelled... O'Hare and DFW seem to be impossible for them to get right...
Funny, because we flew American last month, and three-quarters of the experience was better than my recent experiences on Delta and United.
That 1/4, though, was being trapped in the unreclinable last row seats on a 757 with zero legroom and a guy in front of me yo-yo'ing with his seat recline so that he kept slamming me in the knees.
And they charge $5 for what you can buy from a vending machine for $3. Silly.
You should familiarize yourself with "rule 240"
Here's how it pertains specifically to American Airlines
Air travel nowadays calls for a high level of buddhist nonattachment, but good airports help. I like booking on Northwest through Detroit. That way, when the inevitable delays happen, I can ride back and forth on the monorail or watch the cool fountain. I love that fountain. This message paid for by Northwest Airlines.
Ugh. My family lives in Detroit, so I basically must take Northwest to visit them. Any airlines that charges $15 extra for an aisle seat deserves liquidation, in my humble opinion.
Oh that is NOT good news. I'm just packing my bags to try and catch a flight from Newark to SeaTac.
Golob, all the cool kids choose window seats. That's a $15 uncoolness fee.
That's a $15 I-don't-want-to-climb-over-my-sleeping-neighbor-if-I-need-to-use-the-bathroom fee.
I've had reasonable luck on Northwest (my partner and I go to Milwaukee a lot) but they too have ancient aircraft... I'm fairly certain the DC-9's they run to Milwaukee are older than me...
All I can say is wait for it--- soon you'll pay an additional charge to check a bag- it's already happened in Europe.
$15 for a window seat too. Middle seats are free. ;p
I love Continental, and the Delta planes that used to be in the Song fleet? Sooo good to New York. Way better than Jet Blue.
They should charge for carry-on bags. It could help cover some of the money wasted on searching the damn things.
And prevent certain idiots from taking two giant bags, a purse, a Nalgene, and their coat...
Re #3's comments on old aircraft:
I'm of the opinion that airliners just get better with age. These are carefully maintained machines, not like a car that gets driven until it quits. Problems get found and fixed. Your average elderly aircraft has a huge stack of airworthiness directives mandating fixes to problems with the original design, while potential problems with a new aircraft are mostly unknown. Also, the failure modes of aluminum and ways to test for them are much better understood than for the composite parts on newer designs -- some people believe it's impossible to conclusively test for cracks in composites, for example. I'd much rather climb on board an old 747 than a new A380.
(But then, I once took a recreational hop in a 1929 Ford Trimotor, an aircraft built when the sum total of human knowledge about the science of aerodynamics would have fit in a small book. So I'm a bit weird.)
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