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From: Kingsland, GA
Originally Posted by peppy
you'll be flying 30 and 40 year old hand-me-down planes on AirTrans or ATA.
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From: Saratoga County, NY
We have been flying Southwest 2 or 3 times a year for the past 4 years and have never witnessed any behavior like is shown on that show. Even been to BWI where some of the stuff happened.
AirTran has replaced all their old planes by now, but they left our airport when Southwest showed up.
AirTran has replaced all their old planes by now, but they left our airport when Southwest showed up.
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I was watching last night and they had a guy raising Cain because he arrived three hours early and was still getting bumped off his flight. I have a feeling if that happened to me I'd be led from the terminal in handcuffs.
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Originally Posted by dhermesc
I was watching last night and they had a guy raising Cain because he arrived three hours early and was still getting bumped off his flight. I have a feeling if that happened to me I'd be led from the terminal in handcuffs.
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I saw that last night too. He was PO'd because the plane was delayed due to weather conditions, the airport was under an advisory, and he started to get nasty to the gate attendants so they brought in a supervisor, he immediatly got in her face and stayed nasty and argumentative. She wound up sending him to another gate for a different flight, she got word back that he had been nasty over there too, but they let him board anyway so she went onto the plane and pulled him off, said that he would not be flying SWA that night because of his attitude. He was a real *****, but we didn't see just how the whole situation started out, he was already nasty when the cameras got there. Right after that show, they had Airline UK, featuring the new Brit no-frills airline Easy Air. They have a strict no live animals policy, and some kid was flying from Canada to Scotland to visit friends, he had bought them 2 live lobsters at the duty-free shop in Canada, brought them all the way over, and they wouldn't let him take them on board. He wound up giving the lobsters to them, they gave them to an aquatic center, sent them over by taxi, but they never arrived. Wound up on someone's dinner table! -TD
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Not a thing. But some people get so into enforcing the rules, no exceptions, that it gets ridiculous. And he'd paid 50 bucks Canadian for the things. I'd have asked for a refund on my tickey and found another airline flying to Scotland. That was probably the cheapest one going though, they had him over a barrel and they knew it. -TD
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From: S/C Texas
Originally Posted by Rancha9
That's funny, when I flew on Air Tran to IL last Christmas, every one of their 737's were brand spankin' new, I upgraded to first class for a mere 35 bucks, and still spent $200 less than flying coach on a major carrier... If that's the "disadvantage" of flying discount, then I must be a very disadvantaged person!
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