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Nene
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Posted on: Jun. 28 2000,14:19 |
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Cattle Herd airlines of the skies. They herd you onto the plane (moo!), throw peanuts and soda at you, then herd you off (moo!)People stomp all over you to get onto the plane. Seats will still be there, folks. And the dumbasses that bring those rolling luggage cases. Figure one bin for 6 people, and those cases take up over a third of a bin. Our flight was delayed 20 minutes, because they had to take out baggage and check it below. Its not as if you are NOT going to pass the luggage carousels anyways. Maybe I'm a bit anal, but I'll throw out my common courtesy bitch again. *grr* Oh, and my last bitch. I flew from Vegas to Seattle. PLEASE tell me WHY I had to go through Salt Lake City, UT? On the way back, they were much more creative. I had a choice of going from Seattle to LA to Phoenix to Vegas or Seattle to Reno to Vegas. Rant! Rant! Rant! Ah, I feel better. That is the last time I let my mom pick my airline. ------------------ "Due to budgetary restraints, the light at the end of the tunnel will be shut off until further notice." http://www.angelfire.com/nv/neneshome/
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Bozeman
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Posted on: Jun. 28 2000,16:04 |
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First class? Pretty 1337... I live in a Detroit suburb (Novi) and Detroit is the Northwest hub of the world. I have never flown Southwest, but Northwest has to at least TIE Southwest for bad service, waiting times, and quality and quantity of food. Some people at Metro Airport (Detroit) have waited 8 hrs, because if they pull away from the gantry (the extendo-thingee you walk on to get to the plane) 15 mins or less after they are supposed to, they are considered "on time." What bullshit! They are adding more terminals to Metro now, so it will not be as bad in the future, but it sucks ass in the meantime. Anyone else pissed at the airline industry?
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Hellraiser
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Posted on: Jun. 29 2000,00:49 |
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quote: Originally posted by syf0n: A year ago we (family) were flying to Indianapolis, as we do every year, to see the Indy 500. When we arrived @ the airport, there was a large storm, so we had to circle the airport at a distance until we could land. Here's the funny part...to pass the time, the stewardess ladies decided to gamble! Everyone in the plane (who wanted to participate) got a dollar and wrote their seat # on it. Then it all got put in a bag, and the dollar bill with the seat # pulled won all the cash! COOL!...Except for the fact that a 14 year old kid won, which is GAMBLING BY A MINOR! ILLEGAL! The technical side to this is: IS it really illegal? We were flying, so we weren't really in ANY state, which is where the gambling laws apply...raises an interesting question, eh? (I'm pretty sure it is illegal, but it's funny nonetheless.)
I think that could be defined as a raffle, and as far as I know it is legal for a minor to win. If that's not legal, then many of our school events are illegal, in that there are kids as young as 13 participating in raffles, and I won one when I was 15 (趚).
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jptech
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Posted on: Jun. 29 2000,02:45 |
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Southworst isn't all that bad... if you don't mind flying backwards =)A friend of mine talked me into helping him move back east (from California). So we drove to New Jersey from here. I, of course, don't have all that much money to pay for a plane back so I decide to go Southwest. Hey, it's only 赨 one-way.. how bad could it be? Well, I made it to Baltimore airport about 15 minutes before the flight left (my bad, I know...) Got onto the plane right before it pushed off. Had the pleasure of being in a center rear-ward facing seat right behind a bulkhead (you know, the one where they put 6 people (3 forward, 3 backwards) with about the same amount of legroom as a normal row). Which wouldn't all that bad, if it weren't for the rather large woman on the aisle side of me, and the 3 angry men across from me who started drinking LONG before the plane ever left the ground. Of course, I really hadn't paid any attention to the ticket when I bought it. I knew what time I was leaving the east coast, and I knew what time I was going to be getting to the West coast. Didn't think a thing of it. Until I got on the plane, and noticed that the flight attendants made no mention of Sacramento, but a lot of Birmingham Alabama. And that hurricane off of the coast that we were going to be flying by. Which made for a rather bumpy ride in a backwards facing seat. Of course, I was on the direct (NOT non-stop) flight from hell. And I didn't change planes, which meant I couldn't get off of the plane. Unless I tried jumping out. 13 hours, and a few lovely stops later (Birmingham, Houston, Las Vegas) I was home. And I think I'd rather drive than fly Southwest again.
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iso9k
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Posted on: Jun. 29 2000,05:44 |
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Flying above a state puts you within that state. You are in that state's air space. Felons can get arrested when flying over a state that holds warrant(s) on them if they are in the air space. I've heard that airlines have been told do divert a plane so it circles over a state's border for a minute so a state official can legally arrest a criminal.
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