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RE: Planning A Trip Around The World!

You've got an odd assortment of carriers there. A round-the-world fare is a real bargain, compared to point to point round trip, but the only way to secure a really low, relatively speaking, fare is to do it with an airline program that involves specific carriers. My RTW trip itinerary is based upon...

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RE: What Is Your Least Favorite Aircraft?

The CRJ-200, a flying cigar-tube, claustrophobic and uncomfortable and only tolerable on flights of about 40 minutes or less.

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RE: Your Cheapest Ever Airfare?

$19.00 LAX-SFO on Hughes Airwest in 1976. A good little airline it was too.

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RE: Retro Skinny Seats On Singapore Airlines A345

I'm not sure what you mean when you refer to "skinny"seats'; I remember flying in the 60s and the airline seats I remember were thick and plush and comfortable, unlike these hi-tech, narrow slabs we have now that turn into church pews after about a week's use. These new things may look good and the ...

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RE: CRJ Flights, Range And Over Water?

Mog, you are not alone in experiencing a "sea change" in attitude after a while in a CRJ. Unlike you it only takes me about 20 minutes before I become grumpy and squirmy like a kid on a long car trip. CRJs are wonderful for feeder flights of about 20-40 minutes to the nearest hub but the way the car...

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RE: Flight Attendants In The U.S.A.

I agree that if the passenger is polite the F/As will be polite, but not always. We live in an age of offended feelings and self-analysis and the F/As are on the front line of public trends in that regard. Even if a pax is rude it is for the F/As to maintain their composure and smooth ruffled feathe...

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RE: Is Midwest Airlines A Good One To Fly With?

It's the ONLY airline to fly if you can possibly get to one of their too few destinations to catch them, especially on their "signature" service as you will have the pleasure of experiencing tomorrow. Congratulations!

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RE: JFK To Chicago

I used to fly <acronym title="Chicago - O'Hare International (ORD / KORD), USA - Illinois">ORD</acronym>-<acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK), USA - New York">JFK</acronym> on United DC8s, there were 2 dailies in the 80s, always full too. TWA flew that rou...

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RE: Delta Service

It doesn't take many FAs to toss a tiny bag of junkfood at the PAX as they run up the aisles like hawkers at a baseball game. Delta used to be the absolute best in-flight service, now they are, short of Southwest and other LCCs, the very worst. It's a great shame they have decided to cut in-flight s...

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RE: Comfort On A RJ

I fly ASA's CRJs out of <acronym title="Atlanta - The William B Hartsfield International (ATL / KATL), USA - Georgia">ATL</acronym> fairly often and I loathe the experience. The flights are usually just under two hours and it's a cramped and claustrophobic experience, especially as the flights are i...

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RE: Your Best Airline Logo Of All Times

National Airlines' 'Sun King' was a classic as was Pan Am's 'Blue Globe'. The very old TWA Globe was not beautiful universally recognized. I liked the old <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> Union Jack much better than any subsequent design efforts, it was very stylish and beautiful and "c...

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RE: Delta's New One Class Non-Song Product

Delta has had all-coach 737-800s in the Sarasota market for some time now. The seat pitch is not 36" however and the leather seats are just as narrow and hard as the clothe ones on other aircraft. Delta is trying to paint a sow's ear in gold flake and it won't fool anyone. Who cares if the <acronym ...

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RE: Meet Ted. (No Thanks To UAL)

UAL's Ted campaign is just another example of shallow thinking trying to entertain a shallow public, like Continental's "bling bling" thing thing. I hope UAL can pull it off because I like United Airlines, I grew up on United Airlines, but this Ted business is really incomprehensible. And as far as ...

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RE: Former US Airways CEO House For Sale - $12 Mil

Nice digs. Wolf did all right for himself while running UAL and USAirways into the ground. I wonder who's next on his hit list? Nothing against CEOs if they are running a tight ship. Wolf is a not one of those.

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RE: Whats The Problem With Iberia?

If Iberia is a state-owned outfit that would explain their lousy service. Otherwise it's just one of those mediocre airlines like our own in this country. They get you from point A to point B, safely and quickly but that's about it. Nothing wrong with that but it wasn't always this way which is a sh...

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RE: Routes Without N/S Service With Great Potentia

I agree with 727lover. Sarasota is a gold mine waiting to be struck, but PLEASE, not <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym>! You can truk on up to <acronym title="Tampa - International (TPA / KTPA), USA - Florida">TPA</acronym> for all the <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN...

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RE: Nwa Northwest AIRLINES: Now You're Flying Smar

There is hope for <acronym title="Northwest Airlines (USA)">NW</acronym> to be sure. Their new look is indeed impressive and the best they've ever had since the old blue cheatline days. Now if they can improve their inflight training program and teach their FAs how to smile and be polite they'd have...

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RE: Airlines You Refuse To Fly

Any airline that uses "bling-bling" in their ad campaigns.

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RE: Dislike For CRJ Or ERJ?

I deplore the CRJ especially. They are about as cramped as the old Fairchild FH7s Ozark used to fly in the 60s. The only advantage is that they are faster on short hops, which is a good thing, but Delta is using them on longer flights of over 2 hours and they are untenable. I avoid them whenever pos...

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RE: AA 717 Or Emb-190

I agree that the EMB 190s would be preferable due to their wider fuselage and, hopefully, wider seats than provided in the very narrow DC9 family, including the 717s. I don't know anything about the 717-300 program and can't comment on it other than to wonder if it will be carried out at all. It see...

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RE: Just In, Congress Votes To Lift Cuba Travel Ba

We can fly to Red China, a country famous for its human rights violations and murderous regimes, ditto with several rogue nations of Africa, so why not Cuba?

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RE: IFE: Really That Important?

I never watch or listen the junk on IFE systems regardless of the length of the flight. The audio selections are usually pretty awful and the video games less than useless except for children, most of whom have their own laptops these days and can play their own, preferred, games without the airline...

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RE: ATA And American Getting Together?

Hi, Luv2Fly and AIR757200, thanks for your thoughts. I tend to think you are both correct. It certainly is a good idea, though unusual for a LCC to make any agreements with a "major" which is why I had to wonder a bit. It's true ATA isn't agressively competitive head-on with <acronym title="American...

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ATA And American Getting Together?

Just read the news that ATA and American Airlines have agreed to new interline E-ticketing. I can't help but wonder if this might not be the first little move by <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> to eventually buy up ATA as their in-house low-cost carrier. <acronym title="America...

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RE: Which Boeing Airliner Program Will End Next?

The 717 will be the first to go, it was a model Boeing got stuck with when they bought out Douglas. I think they were surprised that the 717 did so well for them in the aftermath of that buyout but it is the one plane that does not fit in with the Boeing family of 2 (or 4) engines on the wing. The 7...

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RE: Favourite Airport Architecture....

United's terminals B and C at O'Hare...the Best! And Vancouver's for all around pleasantness. It even smells good, like cedar, as you leave the terminal. DIA is very impressive with its wide open spaces but a little garish, lacking the élan and belle epoque energy of O'Hare. Dulles used to be wonder...

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RE: Will Low-fare Carriers Rule The Skies?

I have read the word "Cartel" used to refer to the "mainline" carriers in several responses to this question and am puzzled by it. Cartel means "an informal association of suppliers to maintain prices at a high level and control marketing etc. A cartel in the airline industry usually only happens wh...

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RE: AA,UA,DL,NW,CO,US. Choose Your Pick.

United. 1) Their choice of Airbus 320/319 over 737 family 2) Star Alliance 3) O'hare hub, and sentimental reasons as well. My first jet flight was on a United 727 in 1966 from Denver to O'Hare. It was the most thrilling airborn experience (thus far) in my life. It felt like a rocket going to the moo...

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RE: Your Best Experience, Which Airline?

Short haul, PSA Bae146. The only comfortable airplane between <acronym title="San Francisco - International (SFO / KSFO), USA - California">SFO</acronym> and <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym> in the old days. Medium haul, United Airlines 747-20...

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RE: In The Cold War: North America-USSR Flights

When I was a travel agent in the 80s most people preferred to enter the US<acronym title="Swissair">SR</acronym> via Finland or Denmark using Finnair or SAS and their tour packages (required by the Soviets, no independent travel allowed for the general public at that time). Pan Am flew to <acronym t...

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RE: Lufthansa Unveils New Business Class

Looks like a beach lounger to me. What happens if all those electronic controls fail like the IFEs often do? Then your stuck for 12 hours or more sitting on a thin pad of foam rubber for 12 hours or more from the looks of it. Bring back the wide, plush armchairs as in the days of luxury. But I never...

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RE: Is Aviation Losing Its Mystique?

The mystique vanished when the public decided it had a right to fly everywhere on the cheap and the airlines knuckled under. Flying now is mostly unpleasant and tedious. What would help is if people didn't treat air travel like a trip to the local 7-11, dressed like slobs and behaving like rude moro...

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RE: Fire On AirTran 717 In Boston

Transiting <acronym title="Atlanta - The William B Hartsfield International (ATL / KATL), USA - Georgia">ATL</acronym> last week we passed an AirTran 717 at the gate with one engine smoking badly. No one seemed too concerned about it at the time, one ground crew standing there staring at it that's a...

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RE: NW Trims Down MEM

I agree, ATCboy73. And when demand returns with larger load requirements <acronym title="Northwest Airlines (USA)">NW</acronym> can put on larger aircraft during those less congested hub periods and get away from the habit the carriers are in now of deluging the crowded airports with those CRJs just...

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RE: NW Trims Down MEM

Excellent. Lighter periods of hubbing will be good for travelers in Memphis.
I wish all the hubs would lighten their heavy periods as NW is doing.

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RE: Flat Beds On BA Business Class

The flatbed seats are a scam if you ask me. They are narrow and hard. I prefer the full-size armchair seats the airlines used to have in first and biz.
And I don't like facing a stranger's feet when I'm lying flat-out trying, using in futility, to sleep in one of those narrow flat-beds.

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RE: Jetblue Turns Over Customer Records To The Fed

What do you expect from a company funded by that world class totalitarian creep, George Soros. So much for free tv!

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RE: First Airline You Flew With?

Frontier Airlines, DC3, 1965, Jackson Hole-Denver. Seat mate barfed the entire way. I loved the flight though.

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RE: Austrian's New Corporate Identity

The blue is ghastly. The logo is dumb. Another "so what" remake by another good airline who needs to hire another ad agency.

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RE: Airlines: Which Haven't You Flown On But Want

Cathay Pacific (first class), Singapore Airlines (first class).

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RE: Airlines You'd Like To See At Your Home Airpor

AirTran in Sarasota would be the greatest blessing imaginable!

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RE: Would You Fly With A Computer At The Controls?

Imagine this scenario. Some snot-nosed kid, like the one in Seattle who sent out a virus and knocked out several hundred thousand machines all over the country, gets a virus into a mainframe flight-control computer that in turn instructs every aircraft to crash themselves because they have been hi-j...

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RE: Would You Fly With A Computer At The Controls?

Absolutely not. Computers are excellent and amazing tools but they are fallable and I want the judgement of a human intelligence there to oversee the operations of an aircraft, even if, like now, they sit there most of the time doing little but monitoring the machinery. In the event of a chip malfun...

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RE: What Chicago Airport Do You Like Better?

O'hare all the way! I have sentimental reasons for feeling this way. When I was very young I was taken out to the building site when <acronym title="Chicago - O'Hare International (ORD / KORD), USA - Illinois">ORD</acronym> was just a darkened, glassless hulk. The original terminals were built but i...

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RE: Which Airline Do You Avoid?

Southwest, until they start providing advance seat reservations.

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RE: Airline Most In Need Of Livery Change?

Midwest Airlines. I know, they just changed their look and it wasn't for the better if you ask me. Very boring and kinda stupid-looking. Midwest is as class-act but they don't seem to know what direction they are going, it shows. Delta's gone from ok to bad to terrible. I thought the widget look was...

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RE: CO 747 Routes From LAX

In the early 70s Continental flew the 747 on the Los Angeles-Denver-Chicago run.

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RE: How Did It Feel To Fly Pan Am 1

When I was a young boy (1957) I remember the Stratocruiser from Honolulu to Guam, we were going to visit the place where my father had been stationed during WW2. Soon the jets were to take over that run, I was lucky. The Boeing 370 Stratocruiser was luxury beyond anything flying today. They had bert...

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RE: What's Good About Flying Today?

Advanced seat booking (in most cases). Air bridges for boarding. Flat-bed seats in the upper classes. Technological advances as noted by DIJKKIJK above. The improvements in the aircraft probably supercede the degradation of the in-flight services and the growth of the manic hub and spoke system.

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RE: The True, Down-and-dirty Lowdown On Ryanair

I recommend that you check-out Skytrax.com. There is a very useful and interesting section called Airline Opinions. It's hit or miss with Ryanair as far as getting to your destination on time and in a good mood.

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