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Re: Flight attendants will carry shoehorns to assist passengers in boarding - Fritz - 03-20-2016
Safety? Ha ha ha.
Re: Flight attendants will carry shoehorns to assist passengers in boarding - DP - 03-20-2016
I did a quick scan and thought you wrote "shotguns"...
Re: Flight attendants will carry shoehorns to assist passengers in boarding - GeneL - 03-20-2016
DP wrote:
I did a quick scan and thought you wrote "shotguns"...
It took me a minute to register what you wrote...
...then it hit me. Very funny,
Thanks, I needed a good laugh this morning.
Re: Flight attendants will carry shoehorns to assist passengers in boarding - Speedy - 03-20-2016
I expect now that a barrel of crude is going up, so will airfares.
Re: Flight attendants will carry shoehorns to assist passengers in boarding - max - 03-20-2016
numbered wrote:
[quote=max]
It took United two years to screw up its better acquisition.
I had the inverse reaction. The merger left Continental executives, Continental IT (the web site was screwed up for two years), arrogant Continental crews (announcements from the flight deck that they were "Continental" crews flying United), arrogant managers and ground staff (United folks could not believe the "we are holier than thou" attitude from the Continental staff), and so on.
It was a Continental takeover of United.
Has not gone very well. Disgraced CEO. Financial strategy (to pay the investment bankers and the former execs) has caused huge problems.
So, yeah, it is United's fault! Not exactly,
Continental was acquired by UAL Corporation; at the time of closing, it was estimated that United shareholders owned 55% of the merged entity and Continental shareholders owned 45%https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Continental_Holdings
On the other hand, you are correct as to the operating system, the IT was Continental's, it did result in the system scheduling meltdown once or twice in the first year after merger, but that was not the main problem from passenger's point of view, nor is it a factor the way the airline is run 6 years later. It is the United corporate culture....
“Continental was probably the best airline in my opinion that you could travel on pre-United,” said Mr. Wigdor, a New Jersey resident who flies about twice a month to Houston from Newark on United. “I would say United is one of the lowest.”http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/15/business/despite-shake-up-at-top-united-faces-steep-climb.html
Among his complaints: poor service, choppy Wi-Fi and — after United cut back on perks and upgrades — little appreciation of frequent fliers, like himself, who log tens of thousands of miles a year.
“l feel like at 100,000 miles, somebody should care and make me feel like a valued customer,” Mr. Wigdor said. “You’re treated as just a commodity, and it’s a race to the bottom. They don’t really appreciate me at all.”
Re: Flight attendants will carry shoehorns to assist passengers in boarding - Rick-o - 03-20-2016
Commercial air travel today in the U.S. Bah! (td)
Re: Flight attendants will carry shoehorns to assist passengers in boarding - Fritz - 03-20-2016
"You’re treated as just a commodity, and it’s a race to the bottom. They don’t really appreciate me at all.”
Isn't that modern society in general? Sheesh what a whiner.
Re: Flight attendants will carry shoehorns to assist passengers in boarding - max - 03-20-2016
Southwest does a decent job, Delta still performs nicely on overseas flights....
Re: Flight attendants will carry shoehorns to assist passengers in boarding - Winston - 03-21-2016
Many have also installed seats with thinner backs so that they can maintain the same pitch-the distance from the front of one seat cushion to the front of the next one ahead or behind (already small) but fit in another row or two.
My experience with the Recaro version of these (on Delta as I remember) is that the backs were OK, but the bottom cushions were abysmal. As in I started to get sore before the flight ended.
And of course you are physically closer to those in front or behind.
Southwest has a rule that if you are large enough that the armrest can't be put down between you and the next seat, you have to buy two seats. If the flight is not full, which SW says happens over 90%+ of the time (I actually remember 98%, but not sure that's still accurate, as airlines are running fuller), they automatically refund what you paid for the second seat. Not aware of any other carrier trying to protect other passenger this way.
Love 767s: 2+3+2 seating, with the two aisles to allow you to walk around a bit. 10 seats across on 777? Yuck. (And some carriers (aka Delta) mess everyone up by doing 3+3+3 on a 777.)
Great site for comparing airline seats, by flight, or an entire airline's fleet:
http://www.seatguru.com/
Has info on location and things like power port availablilty.
Re: Flight attendants will carry shoehorns to assist passengers in boarding - IronMac - 03-21-2016
max wrote:
Southwest does a decent job, Delta still performs nicely on overseas flights....
Last couple of years, I have flown Delta on trans-Pacific flights in economy and they have improved enough that I asked one of the attendants if they were gunning for a fourth star. Currently, they're a 3-star airline but their service and food is moving upscale just like Air Canada did before they received their fourth star.