Originally posted by TeeVee
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Let's be realistic on one thing. All this scheme, the incomprehensible (for the customer) ticket pricing, the cancellation and change fees, the baggage fees, the paid snacks, etc, all make up to the bottom line.
If we went to a more reasonable scheme (as it was in the past), the base fare would go up to make up for the loss revenue in all the other categories.
In other words, I would end up paying more to let you change your ticket for free.
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***Airlines***Financial Industry***I would end up paying more to let you change your ticket for free.***
Fascinating how you can spin rather gross assaults on common sense and borderline ethics.Les règles de l'aviation de base découragent de longues périodes de dur tirer vers le haut.
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Originally posted by elaw View PostYou could also pay your mortgage by stopping people on the street at gunpoint and taking their money. Does that make it okay?Les règles de l'aviation de base découragent de longues périodes de dur tirer vers le haut.
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Originally posted by flashcrash View Post
Please. If the airline can't book the flight so as to leave a seat available for a deadheading crewmember, that is to say, if the airline can't plan ahead and communicate with itself, that is not an 'impossible situation', that is a 'negligent situation'. That is chaos.
They should have either a) offered any passenger on the flight many thousands of dollars to give up their seat (justifiable if another entire plane-load of passengers at the destination depends on that crewmember) or b) paid many thousands of dollars to get him on a private flight or on another carrier.
That is one day I would have loved to have my five minutes on a Congression hearing committee...
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Originally posted by Evan View PostUnited CEO Oscar Munoz: "It's an impossible situation... blah blah blah".
Please. If the airline can't book the flight so as to leave a seat available for a deadheading crewmember, that is to say, if the airline can't plan ahead and communicate with itself, that is not an 'impossible situation', that is a 'negligent situation'. That is chaos.
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Originally posted by flashcrash View PostI couldn't agree more. It's an entirely specious argument he's making there. Also, I found David Dao's comments really quite moving. I was impressed that multiple witnesses testified that he wasn't at all "disruptive and belligerent", as United claimed. He was literally dragged out of his seat simply because his condition for giving it up was that he should be put on any alternative flight to his destination that same day, not the next. A condition that United could easily have satisfied using another carrier.
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Or... maybe we should reconsider giving flight crews (especially cabin crews) authority to do absolutely anything to absolutely anyone in their aluminum tube in the name of "safety", when the matter at hand has no connection whatsoever to safety.Be alert! America needs more lerts.
Eric Law
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Originally posted by Evan View PostHELPFUL TIP: When the flight crew says you have to get off the plane, and they aren't interested in discussing that decision, you best get off the plane. Then make a scene.
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Originally posted by TeeVee View Postbullshit. their authority to remove pax is not unlimited. i pray for the day they "dao" me. i will not settle so quickly, but when i do i can then retire happily.
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Originally posted by Evan View PostHELPFUL TIP: When the flight crew says you have to get off the plane, and they aren't interested in discussing that decision, you best get off the plane. Then make a scene.Les règles de l'aviation de base découragent de longues périodes de dur tirer vers le haut.
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