[Paladin2]

It’s only 550 mi.

And a lesson to get things right the first time.

[How many firearms were involved?]

[Larry Lucido]

"Yeah, yeah, yeah."

[Zack Attack]

There was a classic joke I forget who told it with a man at airline counter

Passenger: I want to fly to St Louis. This suitcase to go to Hawaii and this travel bag to Miami

Ticket Counter: I’m sorry sir, we can’t do that.

Passenger: Why not? You did exactly that last time I flew this airline.

[Wilhelm Tell]

At least it wasn’t between Sydney and Perth.

[\/\/ayne]

Never forget a MAC flight and the original 60 passengers clamoring for our luggage while the lady insisted it was not on the plane and several said they had been watching the plane the whole time and no luggage was unloaded.

"There goes our luggage!" a guy said and we turned to see the plane taking off.

However, my luggage got home about a day before I did since I had to take 4 other flights and a bus.

[sphinx]

Ah, memories. I've had luggage -- which, until I learned the lesson the hard way, included all my spare clothes -- lost between Trivandrum and Columbo, Frankfurt and New York, Dublin and London, and a couple of times between U.S. cities. In Sri Lanka, the bags caught up in two weeks. The bags lost in Dublin reached us in four days, just before we departed for Paris. Never had a problem in China despite some hopping through provincial airports, but that's probably an Asian thing; I think the Chinese have the bags unloaded and transferred before the plane lands. I don't know how they do it, but they are fast.

Which is how I eventually learned to cram a suit and two days worth of clean clothes into a carryon bag.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

COVID-19 isolation requirements that have seen employee sickness rates swell to as much as 50 per cent in some departments even though staff don’t actually have Coronavirus.

The gift that keeps on giving — either COVID itself, faulty tests (false positives), or lunatic government overreaction.

[anton]

We have a population of air passengers who bitch if they have to pay $300 to fly 2000 miles. The airlines have drank the cool aid and give them exactly what they pay for - shite service.

If it was illegal to advertise airline seats and not actually have them like every other US retail business we would not have to deal with this. Fares would stabilize where they should be and there would be sufficient funds to deliver reasonable service.

But, if everyone wants to pay $0.06 per mile, its not going to be pretty.

[N. Theknow]

First mention of 787’s I’ve seen since the days of the A380 and 787 comparisons of whether Airbus or Boeing would be shown as the better concept for air travel.

Wonder how many 787 are in use by how many airlines.

Is Emirates still flying A380’s? Any other airlines flying them?

[PeterPrinciple]

As well as blaming Qantas, the Transport Workers Union (TWU) also blames Prime Minister Scott Morrison for the current woes facing Australian travellers.

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Folks,

we will see more union activity and strikes in our future, further aggravating shortages.

[CodeToad]

Boeing hired the idiot CIO, Susan Doniz, from Quantas. She made amess of things there and they gladly recommended she go work for someone else. She’s now busy screwing things up at Boeing.

[PeterPrinciple]

Australian flag carrier Qantas was forced to fly one of its Boeing 787 Dreamliners between Melbourne and Sydney without a single passenger onboard

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Just like uhaul trucks driven empty many miles so they can be better positioned for the market place?

[GreenHornet]

This is just a cover story. What really happened is that the bags got onto the plane okay, but they lost the passengers.

[decal]

The company I currently work for started out delivering lost luggage for the airlines - ah, memories...

A guy working for Northwest Airlines told me about the time they started a new route from Minneapolis to Omaha.

The first day they had one passenger.

They lost his bags.