American Airlines Removes Pillows From MD-80 Flights

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!!

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!!

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.

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.

"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

"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

"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.