Re: Halloween Airline
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 4:51 pm
Sorry Mike, I wasnt calling your brother a liar, just saying it sounds like an embellished story to me.
Spooky, I am not offended, so please don't get me wrong. It does sound like an embellished story, and I definately understand your skepticism. The "Friendly Skies" of United Airlines were having labor union troubles back then. To boot, a lot of comercial ar carriers were having revenue problems due in part to the ecconomy and in part due to their horible customer service. It was totaly screwed up back then. Today, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, it's much worse. In addition to all the over booking, inefficiency, lousy customer service and lost luggage, you have to get to the airport 3 hours MINIMUM before your flight departs to go through all kinds of security check points. What was a very frustrating ordeal way back then, is now 100 times more frustrating with all the rigum a roll you have to go through just to get on the plane. I'm not proud of this, but patience has never been one of my most out standing virtues. I do not like to be frustrated, and poor customer service is something that frustrates and agrivates me to no end. So I just won't do business with them. I'll take my car or bike or even the Amtrak, but I won't do business with the airlines industry.
I realize that a lot of people are happy with air carriers like Southwest Airlines, and if you can afford a first or business class ticket, you don't have to deal with the overboking and other namby pamby problems, but you still have to go through all the security check points, and it takes hours. Again, I hate to wait and I hate inconvenience. I would much rather spend 36 hours on my Harley then 2 hours in an air terminal or a security check point waiting.
Mike