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Originally posted by 3WEI am sorry to sound like sour grapes, but I seriously doubt that AA flew that flight soley for the sake of exemplary customer service for those 5 passengers.
I imagine they could have easily bought first-class tickets for them on another carrier, given them a free-flight voucher, and gotten them to the destination within an hour of the original schedule.
I'm sure AA would have LOVED to "simply" park the aiplane and pocket the jet fuel, except as everyone has said before, there was cargo to be flown and other flights that needed that aircraft.
Bottom line: "Yeah, what everyone said above!" AND if it was SIMPLY Carbon, fuel and operation costs, they could EASILY have parked the plane.'
They flew the flight for good reasons, and I hope those passengers got to sit where they wanted, run laps, have the FULL can of soda and the whole 9 yards
"However, this would have left a plane load of west-bound passengers stranded in London Heathrow who were due to fly back to the US on the same aircraft.
"We sought alternative flights for the west-bound passengers but heavy loads out of London that day meant that this was not possible."Inactive from May 1 2009.
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Someone should tell these folks about the amount of ferry flights that take place everyday with ZERO passengers on board. This is a non issue. They also fail to realize that the plane more then likely was carry 200 people back to Dallas or whatever AA gateway it was being dispatched to. If AA grounded the flight how were those people to get home or to wherever it is they were going? I'm all for protecting the Earth but these people are just plain stupid..
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Originally posted by tommyalfI'm all for protecting the Earth but these people are just plain stupid..
In all seriousness though, there certainly are bigger issues than one "emtpy" 777 flying across the Atlantic. But of course being environmentally conscientious has become more of a "look at me, my farts smell good" bandwagon than anything that actually does any good, and aviation has become an easy scapegoat.
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Don't be so harsh with the environmentalists. They are wrong, yes, very wrong, because they surely know how to save earth but I bet they know nothing about running an airline, which AA sure does.
For ordinary people who don't know nothing about commercial aviation it would sound very logic to accommodate those 5 pax on other flights, that's the problem. What they don't know is what you all have stated above -cargo, pax waiting in London, etc-
The example some of you gave of ferry flights or cargo flights, in my opinion, is also wrong. Those flights are scheduled to be without pax and they have a totally different purpose. It's easy to see why they don't try to stop these flights, they understand that these MUST be done, whereas, on the other hand, AA could have just cancelled the flight.
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Originally posted by MaxPowerDid you care to even read the first post. It's all there.
Originally posted by MaxPowerCan't say that AA is eco-friendly. [plus an emoticon showing shock and horror]Les règles de l'aviation de base découragent de longues périodes de dur tirer vers le haut.
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Originally posted by Crunk415ballaMy only reaction to this is how awesome it would be to have a 772 pretty much to myself. I wonder if they bumped all 5 up to first?Originally posted by Bok269From what I heard they all were bumped up to C.
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