KaiGywer From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 12027 posts, RR: 43 Posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 1423 times:
Reading the post about TWA, made me think of an episode of Airline I saw the other night. It was the one about the drunk guy (yes, I know, standard Airline...) going to FLL. Bragging he had his own business etc etc etc... Well, anyways when WN wouldn't take him, he said that he was gonna go fly TWA, to which the gate agent said that they are no longer flying. Then he wanted Eastern, to which the gate agent said that they aren't flying anymore either.
Codasco From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 65 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 1411 times:
That guy was.....interesting. I liked Chris the WN Supervisor's comment after it was all over: "He had some "interesting" stories. I wonder how many of them are true?".
Every time I fly with my family, my mother starts with her usual "I remember back in the day when Ozark served wine and cheese on the plane", before we even leave the house.....luckily she doesn't mention that while on the plane. Wouldn't want any short tempered F/A's!
KaiGywer From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 12027 posts, RR: 43 Reply 2, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 1390 times:
Codasco From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 65 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 1382 times:
Drunkard: "I was in the service, and I know what it is to be a man."
Chris: "This has nothing to do with your manhood, sir".
--Later--
D: "I'm a transexual and I have t*ts right here."
C: "Sir, let's not have that talk right here."
EA CO AS From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 12561 posts, RR: 64 Reply 4, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 1382 times:
True story - I'm staying at the Westin at LAX a few months ago, and flipping channels on the TV, they've got a few static-filled channels that contain flight departure information, obviously from some REALLY old black-and-white displays.
Anyway, one channel said "American Airlines"..."United Airlines" was next...and finally..."Trans World Airlines."
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Codasco From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 65 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 1380 times:
Hmmm....AA still uses an old B&W system from TWA here in STL.
Lincoln From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 3887 posts, RR: 8 Reply 6, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 1343 times:
1- That gentleman was a peice of work. Chris is extremely level-headed and even-tempered to have not called the cops and to at least **attempt** to mantain some semblance of rational conversation with him, even through the incoherent rambling (manhood/dad is a lawyer/taxidriver/missing...)
2- I miss the old B&W systems...does color actually do anything useful? UA at LAX and WN at DTW still use B&W if I'm not mistaken. AA just had off-the-shelf televisions in some of the boxes at LAX and SFO.
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Codasco From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 65 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 1328 times:
The TV thing, IMO, looks very unprofessional.
You don't NEED color on a flight monitor...but the ones at STL are sooo old that they are sorta blurred and hard to read.
Lincoln From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 3887 posts, RR: 8 Reply 8, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 1290 times:
Codasco -
I agree with you there on the TV thing-- thought I was alone . I've also seen some nasty examples of burn-in... Usually it's not too hard to read, plus I kinda have fun trying to read the info that's been burned in. Yes, I'm strange that way.
Personally, the TV thing wouldn't look quite as unprofessional if (a) the TVs fit in the holes and (b) they were all the same make/model.
I can't remember if it was LAX or SFO but with four across it was "original style" then Panasonic with black cabinet slightly too tall for the cutout then Apex (or some other off-brand) with a grey cabinet, and then another "original style".
I know it was a cost-savings thing, but really the "let's see what we can find for under $100 at Target" idea isn't the best way to hold on to a professional image.
Lincoln
[Edited 2005-02-16 01:26:42]
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Lvkewlkid From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 104 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 1265 times:
at Terminal D's Ticket Counters in PHL, we were waiting in line at the CO/HP ticket line, and the TV's were very blurry for reading the text, and they were in color too.
Codasco From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 65 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 1138 times:
Even if it's in color, CRT displays can wear out and look bad. I found the plasma screens at shoulder height that they have in CMH to be very very easy to read.
Lincoln From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 3887 posts, RR: 8 Reply 11, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 1123 times:
Yes, very.
BTW -- plasma is VERY susceptable to burn-in if not treated very carefully. Even the "network bugs" (superimposed TV station logos, usually in the lower right corner) used by most (US) television stations/networks can do damage after as little as a few hours.
I'll be interested to see how they hold up for airport use long term.
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CitationJet From United States of America, joined Mar 2003, 2235 posts, RR: 3 Reply 12, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 1126 times:
Years ago my brother-in-law worked ticket counter for UA in ICT, he had a passenger rush up to the counter. The customer said "I need to get to Chicago in the worst way!!".
My brother-in-law told him, "To get to Chicago in the worst way, you need to step down to the TWA counter".
MoMan From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 1048 posts, RR: 4 Reply 13, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 1091 times:
The thing I notice most about the old green-screens at STL is there is always one that has lost the horizontal or vertical hold and the information is traveling across the screen....AA's plasma displays by the security lines are nice though.
I like the color displays used in TPA. They have a good contrast and it's easy to read and follow. DL displays in ATL are awesome. AA displays in DFW look old and so 1980 ish.
Codasco From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 65 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 1043 times:
I don't remember exactly what brand they were, but the (I think) CRT's used at BCN are VERY nice too...just as nice as the plasma at CMH (which might actually be LCD. I don't know for sure, but they have them all over--for advertisements AND flight info. The 2 times I've been to CMH, the row of monitors above the escalators all had Windows XP screen savers running..not very useful).
AeroWesty From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 18863 posts, RR: 64 Reply 15, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 1016 times:
How about the airport wanting a defunct airline? After Southwest closed down TranStar in '87, the LAX Shuttle drivers still had to call out TranStar at the stop for T-1 until it was taken off the overhead signs. It was months later that they finally did, and passengers sometimes razzed the drivers that TranStar was no more, and didn't he know that.
Some of the frequent flyers must have gotten tired of it, cause one day I was sitting there when the driver called out the airlines for T-1 ...
Passenger: "TranStar, yep that's me!"
Driver: "You've gotta be kidding me."
Passenger: "No, YOU'VE gotta be kidding ME!"
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. I've also seen some nasty examples of burn-in... Usually it's not too hard to read, plus I kinda have fun trying to read the info that's been burned in. Yes, I'm strange that way.
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