SIGNS YOU'VE CHOSEN A "NO FRILLS" AIRLINE

1. They don't sell tickets, they sell chances.

2. All the insurance machines in the terminal are sold out.

3. Before the flight, the passengers get together and elect a pilot.

4. You cannot board the plane unless you have the exact change.

5. Before you took off, the stewardess tells you to fasten your Velcro.

6.The Captain asks all the passengers to chip in a little for gas.

7. When they pull the steps away, the plane starts rocking.

8. The Captain yells at the ground crew to get the cows off the runway.

9. You ask the Captain how often their planes crash and he says, "Just once."

10. No movie. Don't need one. Your life keeps flashing before your eyes.

11. You see a man with a gun, but he's demanding to be let off the plane.

12. All the planes have both a bathroom and a chapel.</pre>

 

i like budget airlines, when i fly i never understood the need for all the luxury things, just give me a seat...i can support myself.

i also think that way with hotels though, i don't go on vacation to see a hotel, i go to see the area.

 

Two of those statements are true!

1. Read the "contract of carriage", the fine print that no one reads when booking on-line. Airlines do not promise to get you or your luggage to the destination. Paper tickets are gone.

8. Well, not in the USA, but Africa. An Airbus was nearly destroyed in a night landing accident because cows were on the runway. The airport perimeter fence had not been repaired in a very long time. What a mess that must have been.

Jim

 

13) They offer 'Frequent Survivor' miles!

 

Frankly, I'll take Airtran and their service over Delta any day. And I can get a 1st class upgrade for under $100.

 

The whole list sounds like Prinair(Puerto Rican Airlines). I flew with them from San Juan to Mayaguez one NIGHT in 1970 or '71. I had to hold my luggage in my lap. The Copilot gave the survival message in SPANISH!
They didn't have a ticket counter, they honest to God, had a folding table in a hallway all the way past the real ticket counters.

I was there on business and the next day a guy carried me to lunch and when I told him about my trip over he said Prinair had had 4 crashes in 2 months and killed 2 plane loads. I thanked him for that little bit of trivia.
Of course when I flew back to San Juan, over a jungle I couldn't see at night, my knees knocked even under my dang luggage.
I was never scared on an airplane before, but I was white knuckled that day!

 

Where does Airtran fly?

 

Atlanta, GA
Baltimore, MD/Washington
Bloomington/Normal, IL
Boston, MA
Buffalo, NY
Charleston, SC
Charlotte, NC
Chicago, IL - Midway
Cleveland AREA
Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
Dayton, OH
Daytona Beach, FL
Denver, CO
Detroit, MI
Flint, MI
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Fort Myers, FL
Gulfport/Biloxi, MS
Hilton Head AREA
Houston, TX - Hobby
Hudson Valley AREA
Indianapolis, IN
Jacksonville, FL
Kansas City, MO
Las Vegas, NV
Los Angeles, CA
Memphis, TN
Miami, FL
Milwaukee, WI
Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN
Moline/Quad Cities, IL
New Orleans, LA
New York, NY - LaGuardia
Newark, NJ
Newburgh, NY
Newport News, VA
Norfolk AREA
Orlando, FL
Pensacola/Gulf Coast, FL
Philadelphia, PA
Phoenix, AZ
Pittsburgh, PA
Portland, ME
Poughkeepsie AREA
Raleigh/Durham, NC
Richmond, VA
Rochester, NY
San Diego, CA
San Francisco, CA
Sarasota/Bradenton, FL
Savannah, GA
Seattle/Tacoma, WA
St. Louis, MO
Tampa, FL
Washington, DC - Dulles
Washington, DC - Reagan
West Palm Beach, FL
West Point AREA
White Plains, NY
Wichita, KS
Williamsburg AREA

They have the youngest fleet of planes in the industry. Not ratty and run down like Delta (oldest fleet). Last time I flew Airtran the plane I was on was 3 days into its service life! Generally, 1st class (Business class) runs about $50 - $100 more and 1st class upgrades at the gate if they have them available are about $25 - $75 more. You earn flights faster too. Of course, there are variations in price, such as the SEMA show dates to Las Vegas but they still come out less than the competition.

Don't think they operate like the cattle calls of Southwest either. You get assigned seating, snack or meal service, free earphones and satellite radio, etc.

 

I think it would have been easier to ask where dont they fly.

 

Well that's a comprehensive answer. Sounds great. Primarily an eastern airline, but they couldn't resist that Vegas market. I have never flown on Airtran, and I fly quite a bit.

 

I gotta say, Airtran really surprised me. My family flew from Pittsburgh to Fort Lauderdale and they actually kept things moving smooth, stewardesses were nice, and - added bonus (better cause I'm from Pittsburgh) Franco Harris was on our plane!

 

such as?

All I've ever gotten was a seat and sometimes a drink

 

"such as"

flying british airways, emirates, turkish air etc...they wine and dine you the whole way, service is great as in like a restraurant, tv screens for each seat, free wine, lots of great food.

it is great, especially for long flights, but then i think of the price i pay for the tickets and wonder how much less it would be if they just handed out a cheese sandwich and some water and had just a couple of flight attendants, not a whole bunch of them.

in europe a few airlines opt in for food and drink, a flight from sweden to greece i opted out of the food and it saved me $25 on the ticket just for that.

 

In my 32 years on mother earth, I have never been on an airplane and I have yet to fly anywhere. My mother-in-law asked me the other day if the reason for that was because i was afraid to fly. I just looked at her and told her, "I don't know, I'VE NEVER FLOWN BEFORE!"

Personally, as long as the airline doesn't strap me onto the wing and tell me to hang on, I'm ok with anything....................well, except for the election of the pilot.

 

I worked for KLM airlines for ten years. I have flown to Europe at the very least 30 times. I have also been to just about every Island south of Florida. I cannot even remember all the other places I have flown to. EXCEPT ONE. We were coming back from a golf outing in Arizona. Boarded the plane, everything's cool. The plane pushes back, cool right! hehe So we are sitting there for 25 min. Why u ask? Because it is too hot to take off. The temp finally drops a 1/2 degree, and we get the green light.

So the four of us are tired, hungover, and burnt. All we want is to get home to sleep in our own beds. Brakes locked, engines are hitting the roll pitch, and here we go. Now, I have taken off from Phoenix many times, and I have a pretty good idea where the wheels should be lifting off the ground. Well they are not coming off the ground where they should. At this point I think the captain rammed the throttles through the dash. Just before we ran out of runway we lifted. So you know we all went whew!

I think we couldn't have been more than 500 feet off the ground when she dropped out of the sky. I am telling you we dropped like a rock, and I thought for sure we were gonna die. I can't tell you how much we missed the ground by but, I'm sure it wasn't much. I was sick as a dog all the way back to New York, and that is the last time I stepped foot on a plane. 15 yrs. and counting.