[Kartographer]

United? Delta? two sides on the same die.

Alaska and Southwest are the only decent airlines in operation. All the FReepers defending United make me ill.

All their talk about margin and regulation and yet there are airlines who manage to run their operations without using the business model of livestock haulers.

[USNBandit]

My brother had a bad United experience. He was flying back from Turkey, through Rome and United screwed up his boarding passes. He was supposed to be selected for additional screening, but the ticket agent gave him a boarding pass without the "quad SSSS" code. He processed through Customs, and TSA in Chicago and boarded his plane. Then the gate agent storms on board and told him to get off the plane. When he asked why the guy threatens him with arrest. When he gets off the plane he is met by TSA holding a quad SSSS boarding pass that United printed up trying to cover their tracks. They rescreened him and he barely made the flight.

All of this was because United screwed up and wanted to shift blame onto the customer.

[wintertime]

” livestock haulers”?

My husband and I are sitting here laughing.