Posted on 06/15/2015 5:22:25 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Maybe United should publish the passenger list so that normal people can commiserate...
Were they all entitled Chicago EBT recipients?
Prisoners escaping Chicago on a commercial aircraft?
I got gypped! When I got stuck in an airport it was just boring Las Vegas. I got stuck over night after missing a transfer. This would make a better story!
Can the public visit and maybe stay at that base? I’d like to go there both to thank them for hosting those ingrates and also to have a great time. I don’t expect it rival London or Paris, but I also don’t want to go to a once-great city that’s been repopulated.
On one flight across the Atlantic they had air-ground available the lady in the tower in Gander (Newfoundland, not far Goose Bay) was telling the planes that they would not have coverage over the North Atlantic and to report several hours later to a tower in Europe.
All I could think of is how she would feel if she were the last person to talk to one of those planes (maybe ours) if the plane went down, especially if the plane was never found.
I applaud United for playing it safe, and they may want to start to doing what Uber (the new-age taxi service) does and rate their passengers. My kids, of course, are very highly rated and it takes them about 30 seconds for an Uber to show up - maybe United can give lower fares to passengers that don’t make asses out of themselves.
Did they want to punish themselves for screwing up the flight?
And why did UA defend the crew going off to a hotel by saying they needed to be "well rested" implying that the accommodations at Grey Goose were not conducive to their being able to handle the plane the next day?
Maybe because the crew is driving and the hotel doesn’t have 200 rooms open?
And the author has just finished just telling us how great, wonderful and everything it is to stay at Goose Bay so why was it not wonderful enough for the crew?
Either it is not great or for some other reason they wanted the crew away from the passengers.
Pick one but you can not have both.
Because the hotel may have room for 6 people but not 200???
If you put one passenger in the hotel then you’d have to put them all.
The plane didn’t crash. I’d say thats one heck of a good start.
But either the accommodations were substandard and so the crew was taken elsewhere or the accommodations were wonderful and the crew was taken elsewhere for some other reason.
One of those statements is true.
Both cannot be.
In either case the airline owes the passengers an explanation beyond what they were given.
The plane didn’t crash. I’d say thats one heck of a good start.
That is the most basic part of the job. Sorry but not any excuse for treating the passengers like mushrooms.
I hate United, but youre just being silly.
The airline has admitted that the accommodations were substandard by not housing the crew there and defending it by saying that the crew would not have been sufficiently rested by staying at the same location that was apparently fine for the passengers.
It is amusing the way some people are rushing to whine that the passengers should shut up and just be grateful that the pilots did not fly the plane into the ground.
Next time I fly, I’m going to Tip the Pilot when I’m disembarking the Plane.
Anyone know the Proper Tip amount or should I Write Miss Manners?
Anyone know the Proper Tip amount or should I Write Miss Manners?
When Miss Manners writes back let me know the answer.
Irish ;)
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