WolfEyes

Oh SLU. Home of the derails and sibling squabbles. Never change.

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Cerise

All right, if you're all going to be flying fingers, it's time for a refresher.

Rose Karuna

Ah come on, if you're going to flip the bird, here's how to do it! I'm a bird flipper from way back and this is how I do it.

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WolfEyes

Thanks. I've been looking for one of those. Now I have one.

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Argent Stonecutter

That looks like an "I was just kidding" flounce! Only 5 points, but we do what we can.

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Soda Sullivan

lol...thank you for all the lovely birds. I love you all and would fly with you any day. Well, not fly, but I would ride with you all anyday.

Here is another pretty bird, right back at ya.


"Don't fly United...chirp! chirp!"

Dakota Tebaldi

You people are so weird.

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WolfEyes

Look who is talking. Does this mean you're finally grown up enough to take an interest in girls? Other than pulling pigtails and dipping the ends in ink of course.

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Rose Karuna

I ran across this today: https://www.wsj.com/articles/airline...ers-1492769092

While reading it I realized that the very best way to bite this shit in the ass is for public companies to require their executives to fly in economy just like the rest of their employees. Let me tell you, economy would change FAST!

Wanda Belinda

Oh well, that article is behind a paywall with no obvious alternatives.

Cerise

Give this a shot. First Class Vs. Last Class? Airlines Bolster Premium, Skimp on Economy

Ariadne Korda

I hear you, Rose. I hear you. The last year or so I worked for a certain organisation, they introduced austerity measures and WOW the Directors had to fly economy, even on long trips.

They arrived all "GOD THIS IS HARD" and "POOR US". And got pretty much no sympathy from those of us who had been in economy for years.

Once upon a time, even we the grunts got business class if the flight was more than 6 or 8 hours (I forget). The difference in how we functioned on arrival was pretty damned obvious, once they decided that this was All Too Expensive.

The upshot was, however, that the Directors did Woe Is Us to the powers that be, and hey presto, they were allowed back in the comfy seats. Didn't see them campaigning too hard on behalf of we who were not.

So I'm not sure even your idea is a solution. I wish, though!

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DanielRavenNest

Boeing used to require all employees to fly coach on business travel, even executives. That way they could experience the product the way passengers did, including the competition. Just because they worked for Boeing didn't mean they always flew on Boeing planes, that depended on the destination and what the airlines used for the route.

I refer to this as "the good old days". Once Boeing hired a CEO that was just an executive, and not an airplane guy, he got his own corporate jet (a Boeing, of course), and they lost touch with the reality of airline travel.

Cerise

The airlines tend to do what they want with seating, don't they? Seems kind of mean to make Boeing people suffer for their customers' tight wallets.

Isabeau Imako

American Airlines this time...


American Airlines employee suspended after video shows row with passengers - The Globe and Mail

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Kamilah Hauptmann

There's a wildly different result.

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Soda Sullivan

Yes. The reaction of American versus United shows why United Airlines are just pure scum. Even though this incident pales in comparison to the United assault, American was quick to apologize and react, whereas United just blamed the passenger.

Katheryne Helendale

Granted, the male flight attendant involved needs a good, swift lesson in customer relations, but - who in their right mind brings a stroller onto an airplane? And a double-wide stroller, no less? How do you even get such a thing onto an airplane, what with those horribly-narrow aisles and all? How did she even carry that thing past the boarding gate without being challenged?

Neither side showed a whole lot of common sense in this situation.

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Dakota Tebaldi

Was looking through some old airline stuff, and I saw this old United ad, and I had to laugh at the fact that what happens at the end of it was obviously considered cute and acceptable in 1978. In the modern era, like nooooooo....



By the way, speaking of old airline stuff....while looking at some American planes, it just now occurred to me how much better American's current livery looks:



...compared to the fantastically lazy one they had like in the 90's/early 00's?



Sheesh...just drag a couple paint brushes down the side of the otherwise-unpainted plane and call it a day? I guess it was certainly distinctive, and might've even looked great on day one if the aluminum was all mirror-polished. But there was no way it could be maintained. Buncha planes looking like the world's grubbiest-fingerprint-smudged iPhone screens.

eku Zhong

See.. there's the thing. The gate was supposed to deal with it. In the same way as they take your wheelchair and pop you in the narrow aisle chair when you board.

The woman had enough to deal with having 2 babies. The airline staff should have done their job and dealt with it appropriately at the gate.

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Arkady Arkright

The CEO hasn't survived unscathed... United CEO will not ascend to role of chairman in 2018, airline says - The Globe and Mail

Casey Pelous

Is that the one where he asks him if he likes movies about gladiators?

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