Posted on 07/28/2010 12:51:40 PM PDT by martin_fierro
My brother in law got mixed up with them, pissed off everyone he knew and ended up with a basement of soap.
The first airline to ban passengers from bringing egg salad sandwiches on board will get my business.
Back in the mid-to-late 1970’s, you could show up at the PSA terminal at LAX (Los Angeles Int’l) at midnight and fly to San Francisco for ten dollars. TEN DOLLARS! I kid you not.
Tell me about it!
We got to Philly for a connecting flight to St Martin a few weeks ago. The 1st flight was late. and it was going to be close, but the stewardess said we can make it if we run.
We tear across the airport only to get to our gate and see the plane sitting there, but backed away from the gate by a few feet.
It sat there for another 10 minutes, and finally left.
It was the last flight out to St Martin, so we were stranded there, losing an entire paid day of vacation (our hotel and car in St Martin).
AND...
They wouldn’t pay for our Philly hotel for the night either.
They said the 1st flight was late “due to weather”, and that was that.
Like the 1st flight couldn’t have told the 2nd one (they’re here, hand on for a second”.
Screw them.
One of their workers told us they shouldn’t have even boarded us on the 1st flight give how late it was. At least we would have been stuck at home for a day instead of a Philly airport hotel.
They sell popeyes fried chicken inside DFW. I brought it on board and was the envy of 200 passengers. Every eye watched me eat my chicken.
Had the same issue at DIA, but with the TSA screener. She had no clue what to do with my weapon. 25 minutes later, the jefe came over, checked it was double-locked and sent me on my way.
I generally don’t carry now when I pull reserve duty in CS unless I’ve driven. It’s just too big a hassle.
Of course, I do feel naked till I get back home to Texas.
Colonel, USAFR
TEN DOLLARS! I kid you not.
That’s a pretty good deal. The Shuttle from Boston to NY was $49.95.
I don’t know about you, but I intend to sit back in my roomy, brocade-upholstered seat, loosen my tie, stretch my legs all the way out, and call that slender, honey-voiced 23-year-old stewardess in the attractive Pucci uniform over there to bring me a pillow, an asprin, and an Old Fashioned. Later, she’ll give me a deck of cards and I and the one other guy in my row can play a hand of gin rummy while smoking a Chesterfield and OH WAIT THE WORLD MAKES SENSE I MUST BE DREAMING I’M IN “MAD MEN” AGAIN
Try Air Europa. Less legroom, but it may be worth it. :-)
No dissent. I think they purposely recruit crusty old stewardesses.
In fact most US airlines have grumpy, disshelved, old attendants— another thing we have to thank unions for.
PSA is US Airways. Most of the old Braniff pilots ended up at US Airways.
US Airways has the same name as in the 1990s, but it is a completely different airline now. It is headquartered in Phoenix now.
Don't
Ever
Leave
The
Asphault
“Hm, we’ve got two young women and two unaccompanied minors checked in but not boarded.”
“Oh, let’s just leave.”
“Roger!”
[I still can’t believe it happened. Boy am I glad I said no to my daughter joining them. I drove her instead!]
In the old days, the CAB regulated prices that US carriers charged for tickets. This system, which amounted to subsidizing the airlines, kept ticket prices high by today's standards. This enabled the carriers to fly airplanes half-full, or airplanes with super-roomy layouts (some planes has stand-up bars in then -- even in Coach class!), or fly big aircraft on domestic routes (you used to be able to fly from Dallas to New York on a freaking 747!) and still make a profit.
The high ticket prices kept the riff-raff out, too, making air travel a middle-class-or-higher affair, which is why the guy sitting next to you on the plane back then had on a shirt and tie instead of wearing the dirty NASCAR T-shirt, shorts, and flip-flop ensemble so popular among les petits blancs pauvres de caravane that comprise the majority of US air passengers today.
Since the airlines (there were many to choose from, unlike today) were all basically being propped up by the government, they couldn't compete on price, so they competed on service. The carriers constantly scrambled to have the hottest stews, the shortest skirts, the most giveaways (remember those little vinyl "flight bags'?) and the strongest cocktails in the business.
This is why travel on foreign carriers is so pleasant. In other countries, the airlines are considered a part of the nation's transportation system, and are either owned outright by the government or are propped up with tax dollars. Since most foreign airlines are not engaged in a constant Hobbesian battle for survival as US carriers are, they don't have to undercut their competitors by offering ever-cheaper tickets. They can afford to treat their customers like human beings instead of animals.
The solution for the problem of US air travel: re-regulation. Bring back the CAB, the high ticket prices, the unspoken dress codes, all of it. Send the lower-middle and working classes back to the Greyhound stations. Hire stewardesses based upon their youth, charm and beauty and put the gray-faced air cows out to pasture. Make one flight in five an all-smoking flight and charge passengers a premium. (Note: I don't smoke.)
And for Pete's sake get rid of the TSA. Instead, allow passengers to carry guns on the aircraft. When I was a kid, there was no airport security. You could walk from the parking lot into the terminal, out onto the apron, through a gap in a chain-link fence, and up the rolling stairway into the plane without undressing or saying jack to anybody. Somehow, we survived having no "security" back then. We can do so now.
Airlines are NOT profit-making businesses. Not one has ever made a dime of real profit; they are all subsidized by government money in some form. Let's kick the idiotic idea of a free-market airline industry to the curb and treat it as a regulated public utility, the way it used to be in the World That Made Sense.
Actually US Airways like most airline both suck and blow at the same time. That’s the way jets work.
It is as long as you by it on the concourse and pay about double the face value.
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Of course that should be “buy” not by!
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