What about reports on dealing with particular airlines too?
What about reports on dealing with particular airlines too?
Ha! Yeh, really!Originally Posted by The Publisher
Well, word-of-mouth is still one of the greatest forms of publicity, good or bad. Certainly one of the consequences of poor customer service is and should be that people are gonna tell people, whether it's an airline or restaurant or anything else!
On that note, and if you want to shunt this over to a different thread . . . Continental Airlines is proof Satan exists, and several of it's employees have special places reserved in the fire and sulfur of Hades! But I'm not bitter . . .
Never fly Continental when confined to a wheelchair, unless of course you just love experiencing pain and humiliation at the hands of the flight crew.
Can you please explain?
I have flown US Airways and United in the recent past and both were fine. I had no problems with my gear, no problems with the checked lugage, no problems with my carry on, and MOST IMPORTANT no problems with the flights.
What I did not like was the constant nagging to sign up for a credit card to get airline miles. They spend 30 seconds on emergency procedures and 30 minutes going over and explaining in great detail the airline miles and the credit card!
I say stick the credit card and the peanuts up your big fat ---> (_!_) and give us some decent food.
Oh, and shut up that stinking baby, they should put any crying babies in the cargo hold away from me! Or have gag for them! It is so unfair to the rest of the passangers. I had a baby crying in the row behind me for the entire flight from LA to Philadelphia. The mother did not even seem to be the least bit concerned.
Lets just say I almost went to jail for murder!!!!
Ok, now we all have a specific forum to discuss issues related to poor or excellent airlines and their service, so we moved the threads related to that but unrelated to baggage theft reports to here.
I am mulling over adding my own report on what a particular airline did to of all people a travel writer, but since we all make mistakes, since the measure of a person or company is what they do to resolve it, I will reserve comment till they've been given that opportunity.
I WILL ad though that I have been repeatedly impressed with Cathay Air Lines. Always clean planes, always with large flat panel LCD's with tons of movies, always great service and decent food, never lost or delayed baggage, etc.
Now and then they run direct specials on their website too.
If you guys want to come up with a report format, like the following, and fee free to add or suggest something better:
Airline:
Destination:
Pros
Cons
Additional Comments:
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Now like Ace observed, or should I say survived, is Boeing and Airbus do not build planes with screaming kids, or do airlines offer discounts if you bring a screaming kid. That is a parent issue but not always within their control.
Passengers on Lufthansa have it right, where mothers were free to breast feed their infants unimpeded by American psychoses, and the planes are a lot quieter to show for it.
I will acknowledge that I am fairly disappointed with the modern weather radars planes have. I pay good money to go on roller coasters to get thrown about, and I pay even better money to be on a plane. For that price, I want an E-ticket ride!
It is always funny to hear the periodic screams from passengers during mild turbulence. For those ever in doubt, if you can't decide if you should be worried, should scream, or go back to sleep during turbulence, just look at the facial expressions of the stewardesses or stewards (yes, they do have genders and are either male or female in spite of what you're told). If they act like nothing is amiss, you're home free.
However, if they scream, so should you too!
Ace,
Crying babies are part of life. The fact that the mother looked like she wasn't concerned is probably true. Maybe there was no reason to be concerned. If she knows her baby, maybe nothing was wrong except teething, or maybe an ear infection that prevented the baby from equalizing properly (imagine that and a tooth problem while doing a deep dive). They say that teething is one of the most painful human experiences part of regularly scheduled life next to giving birth. Adults would not be able to handle it without serious drugs.
Look, it is annoying, I wouldn't like it at all, but don't you think that the mother would like some quiet as well as not being looked at with scorn by all on the plane?
What could the mother have done? I'm sure if the mother tried gagging or placing in the cargo hold like you suggested, you'd be on telling us about the abuse.
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