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Good, all those rich executives traveling around the world to go to wasteful expensive
meetings with donuts don't get comfortable pillows for their heads. This is GOOD news. I don't take planes, this doesn't effect me at all. Bet you're jealous about the doughnuts though ! No, I can get them for a few bucks, I don't need to spend hundreds on airfare to get them. Only big corporate management does that. I am glad they took the pillows away from those *******s! WOO HOO!! |
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Good, all those rich executives traveling around the world to go to wasteful expensive
meetings with donuts don't get comfortable pillows for their heads. This is GOOD news. I don't take planes, this doesn't effect me at all. Bet you're jealous about the doughnuts though ! No, I can get them for a few bucks, I don't need to spend hundreds on airfare to get them. Only big corporate management does that. I am glad they took the pillows away from those *******s! WOO HOO!! |
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me wrote:
Two ways it can save money. 1) is allowing faster turn around times. 2) is requiring fewer people to service more aircraft per hour. The article I saw though was definitely about #1. It is one thing for legacy airlines to tell Wall street casino analysts that they are working to reduce turn around times, but another thing for the legacy airlines to drop their whole schedule mentality at hubs adn REALLY reduce turn around times. It isn't the "hub" concept that is flawed, it is the concept as implemented in the USA to make shecdules to allow the most connections with the least amount of waiting, and that requires planes stay at the hub longer than necessary, as well as requiring more gates, more staff and of course more planes because you have a whole bunch of planes iddle at gates for a long period instead of being in the sky. If AA were truly serious, it would have made an announcemnt that pillows would only be loaded on overnight flighst as well as daylight flighst of more than X hours. They need system-wide restructuring of schedule, not just a change on a few old planes. |
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Joseph wrote:
Ay. Huge boxes held together with twine and spit? Chickens running up and down the aisles? India has never been a place I ever wanted to get to know. Ditto for their airlines/airliners. Haven't seen chickens running up and down the aisles of American airliners. Yet. You obviously don't remember the time when some pig was allowed to travel in first class on a domestic flight in the USA. And there was a TV episode about Southwest carrying penguins not only in the passenger cabin, but they had their own seat too. Remember that documentaries on the adventures of Indianna Jones were set in the 1930s, so depictions of planes with chickens running around are not necessarily current. |
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"Serendipity" wrote in message ... I have been known to buy a couple of drinks during the flight though since I'm a rather nervous flyer Them nerves need appeasement from time to time... Nik |
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"Serendipity" wrote in message ... I have been known to buy a couple of drinks during the flight though since I'm a rather nervous flyer Them nerves need appeasement from time to time... Nik |
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"nobody" wrote in message ... me wrote: Two ways it can save money. 1) is allowing faster turn around times. 2) is requiring fewer people to service more aircraft per hour. The article I saw though was definitely about #1. It is one thing for legacy airlines to tell Wall street casino analysts that they are working to reduce turn around times, but another thing for the legacy airlines to drop their whole schedule mentality at hubs adn REALLY reduce turn around times. It isn't the "hub" concept that is flawed, it is the concept as implemented in the USA to make shecdules to allow the most connections with the least amount of waiting, and that requires planes stay at the hub longer than necessary, as well as requiring more gates, more staff and of course more planes because you have a whole bunch of planes iddle at gates for a long period instead of being in the sky. If AA were truly serious, it would have made an announcemnt that pillows would only be loaded on overnight flighst as well as daylight flighst of more than X hours. They need system-wide restructuring of schedule, not just a change on a few old planes. I agree with you. But their MD80's aren't "few" and many aren't "old." They've got over 150 of them, and the later ones are 5 years old or so (acquired with the TWA acquisition). The oldest MD80's have been phased out or are in the desert in storage. |
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