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UNITED Airlines SUCKS
If there was a travel website that actually showed the *real* cost of each airline's ticket, including fees and so on, the results would be ordered far differently than on a regular travel website. Here is a website worth checking: http://www.flyingfees.com |
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Peach wrote:
me. What ticks me off is...the whole charging for baggage now. I never check my luggage...I always have a small pilot case I use for all my business trips. If it doesn't fit in the case, I don't bring it. United loads the aisle seats last. As I was leaving Newark last Sunday, the person on the loudspeaker announces, "Those of you who have some carry ons still may have to check your baggage, as the overhead flight compartments are filling up." I turned to the guy next to me and said, "Oh, no I'm not....I'll throw myself on the ground and have a tantrum." (Of course I was--partially--kidding.) I boarded the plane with my pilot case and there seemed to be plenty of room. I wondered if they just needed the money. Peach Does UA charge gate checked bags? or... for the Brits: Do UA charge for gate checked bags? |
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Hoover wrote:
Service is pathetic - repeated mechanical problems. I hope they go bankrupt, along with every other line that is ripping off the public. How exactly is UA ripping off the public? They must be really bad at it, considering they have been losing money for years. |
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UNITED Airlines SUCKS
To give a few examples - there is literally one person at the check in
counter - it's all automated and most of it sucks. They charge 15 per checked bag, unless you're a premier United member. (Which I would NEVER do with this airline.) They charge for food on domestic flights, which is overpriced and which they ran out of before they got past row 15. Their headsets are decrepit, they stuff you in your seats like a sardine. Want more? "mrtravel" wrote in message ... Hoover wrote: Service is pathetic - repeated mechanical problems. I hope they go bankrupt, along with every other line that is ripping off the public. How exactly is UA ripping off the public? They must be really bad at it, considering they have been losing money for years. |
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UNITED Airlines SUCKS
On Sep 30, 10:22*am, Jay Furr wrote:
See, passengers flying for personal/vacation purposes *always* book the cheapest fare, no matter that the connection time between flight A and flight B is seven and a half minutes and you have to switch terminals, or what. * This is what leads to a lot of the situations in which people claim that the airlines screwed them and caused them to miss their flight and lose their luggage and stuff -- THEY accepted the insane connection time that the website kicked out, and THEY therefore put the airline in a situation where a slight delay on flight A made it impossible to catch flight B or get their bags to flight B. Back in 2005, United managed to lose my baggage on a *one-leg* flight from Albany to Dulles in *both* directions. So don't give me this nonsense that they lost it because I chose insane connection times. |
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On Oct 1, 4:57*am, "Hoover" wrote:
To give a few examples - there is literally one person at the check in counter - it's all automated and most of it sucks. They charge 15 per checked bag, unless you're a premier United member. (Which I would NEVER do with this airline.) They charge for food on domestic flights, which is overpriced and which they ran out of before they got past row 15. Their headsets are decrepit, they stuff you in your seats like a sardine. Want more? I buy food at the airport, I rarely check a bag and a print out my boarding pass before I even get to the airport. Yes, you are packed like sardines, but I'm 6'3"...if I can handle it, you certainly can. Jon |
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On Oct 1, 8:09*am, Jay Furr wrote:
James Gibson wrote in news:6553a375-bb06-435b- : On Sep 30, 10:22˙am, Jay Furr wrote: See, passengers flying for personal/vacation purposes *always* book the cheapest fare, no matter that the connection time between flight A and flight B is seven and a half minutes and you have to switch terminals, or what. ˙ This is what leads to a lot of the situations in which people claim that the airlines screwed them and caused them to miss their flight and lose their luggage and stuff -- THEY accepted the insane connection time that the website kicked out, and THEY therefore put the airline in a situation where a slight delay on flight A made it impossible to catch flight B or get their bags to flight B. Back in 2005, United managed to lose my baggage on a *one-leg* flight from Albany to Dulles in *both* directions. *So don't give me this nonsense that they lost it because I chose insane connection times. RIF. I said "A lot of the situations". *Not all. But speaking as someone who travels a lot, I read a *lot* of the columns written by journalists who cover the travel industry and they agree -- the desire to seek the lowest possible fare no matter what is often what leads to the subsequent travel nightmares. * IAWTP. The airlines face a nightmare business model. They have to make projections on fixed assets years in advance and therefore have high fixed costs per flight. This leaves them very susceptible to price changes in their variable inputs like fuel. They also have perfect price transparency. I can select the lowest fare in less than five minutes by going to one website. Jon |
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UNITED Airlines SUCKS
"J.C. Watts Enslin" wrote in message ... On Oct 1, 4:57 am, "Hoover" wrote: To give a few examples - there is literally one person at the check in counter - it's all automated and most of it sucks. They charge 15 per checked bag, unless you're a premier United member. (Which I would NEVER do with this airline.) They charge for food on domestic flights, which is overpriced and which they ran out of before they got past row 15. Their headsets are decrepit, they stuff you in your seats like a sardine. Want more? I buy food at the airport, I rarely check a bag and a print out my boarding pass before I even get to the airport. Yes, you are packed like sardines, but I'm 6'3"...if I can handle it, you certainly can. Jon A couple years ago at ORD, we were stuck on the tarmac due to weather for about 2 hours, went back to the gate and waited another 1 1/2 hours, then waiting in line to take off for another hour. We were not allowed to get off the plane at the gate, nor did United load any more food. So, like you said, they ran out of food and the people in the back got nothing. Why couldn't United load more food if they knew that we were sitting for 4 1/2 hours, and then flying another 4 hours to LAX. Really ****ed off alot of pax for something United could've easily avoided. |
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United sucks if you are ahead of the wings.
It blows if you are behind the wings. So the solution is to be right over the wings. Less of a view, but it neither sucks nor blows. |
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