Airline Industry in General
Posted by dflak07 on July 7, 2008
American Airlines – $15 to check the first bag. I guess that’s to make up for all the revenue they lost when the FAA grounded thousands of their flights for failure to comply with safety regulations.
US Airways. Want an aisle seat? Only $10 more!
It seems that the airlines are learning how to nickle and dime us (or $5 and $10 us) from the phone company?
Waht next? Pay toilets? How about replacing the in-flight movie with end-to-end advertizing played over the loudspeakers? Emergency oxygen mask rental fee.
dflak07 said
US Aiways – a friend of mine had her niece and grandniece visit her today. They flew in from Indiana. Their first flight had no air conditioning. Hello? How did they pressurize the aircraft?????
Their second flight didn’t have an operational bathroom (this is worse than my pay toilet proposal).
Now I would expect this kind of facility in a third-world airline or maybe Aeroflot in the heyday of the Soviet Union (which as we all know led the world in enviornmental concerns, quality and safety — can you spell Chernobol?). By US Airways is alledgedly a United States carrier licensed by the FAA.
If they can’t keep their air conditioners and bathrooms working, what else on their airplanes is broken?
dflak07 said
US Airways – Pilots’ Union claims that the company is compromising safety for profitability.