United Airlines must die

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Was a big fan and frequent flier of Continental, hoped they would bring UA up in the merger. Unfortunately, exactly as I feared, the reverse has happened. They cannot go out of business soon enough.

Is that vomit? Family forced to sit in soiled seat on United Airlines flight

[FoxHuntChampion]

Good on you for finally figuring it out.

[NOTTHOR]

Meh, the flight mah mom was on where the guy died on the runway and shit himself and then they put someone else in his seat his prolly worse.

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Apr 21, 2015 9:19:07 GMT -6 NOTTHOR said:

Meh, the flight mah mom was on where the guy died on the runway and shit himself and then they put someone else in his seat his prolly worse.

Wut carrier?

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Apr 21, 2015 9:11:30 GMT -6 FoxHuntChampion said:

Good on you for finally figuring it out.

Oh, I've hated UA ever since my Continental president's card no longer werked in the same president's clubs I used to frequent to drink teh free booze and sit away from you proles.

[thunderhawk]

www.newyorker.com/business/currency/airlines-want-you-to-suffer

Here’s the thing: in order for fees to work, there needs be something worth paying to avoid. That necessitates, at some level, a strategy that can be described as “calculated misery.” Basic service, without fees, must be sufficiently degraded in order to make people want to pay to escape it. And that’s where the suffering begins.

The necessity of degrading basic service provides a partial explanation for the fact that, in the past decade, the major airlines have done what they can to make flying basic economy, particularly on longer flights, an intolerable experience. For one thing, as the Wall Street Journal has documented, airlines have crammed more seats into the basic economy section of the airplane, even on long-haul flights. The seats, meanwhile, have gotten smaller—they are narrower and set closer together. Bill McGee, a contributing editor to Consumer Reports who worked in the airline industry for many years, studied seat sizes and summarized his findings this way: “The roomiest economy seats you can book on the nation’s four largest airlines are narrower than the tightest economy seats offered in the 1990s.”

Boarding for non-élite flyers has also become a miserable experience. There are far more efficient ways to load planes than the current back-to-front method, which is actually slower than random boarding. The process takes longer still thanks to the practice of letting flyers with status board out of turn and thanks to luggage charges, which compel fee-avoiders to cram their bags into overhead compartments. Airlines lack a real incentive to fundamentally improve boarding for everyone—by, for example, investing in methods such as filling both ends of an airplane at once. It would make life better and also defeat the status racket.

Fee models also lead most people to spend unwarranted time and energy calculating, agonizing, and repacking in the hope of avoiding paying more. The various fees make prices hard to compare, as a ticket can now represent just a fraction of the total expense. These are real costs, and they are compounded by ticketing practices, which demand perfect timing. When customers miscalculate their schedules or their plans change, the airline is ready with its punishment: the notorious two-hundred-dollar rebooking and change fee. Those change fees are particularly lucrative: in 2014, Delta and United are projected to collect nearly a billion dollars each. And the greater social cost comes from those who didn’t change their tickets even though they wanted to.

Yeah, Continental was great.

United is fucking atrocious. It's like the Greyhound Bus of airlines.

[GhostMod 5000]

Unless you sprout wings and fly yourself, these assholes know they have you over a barrel. Like the article said, they had two options, wait a day or sit in puke. Bince 90% of recreational travelers just pick whatever seat is cheapest, airlines won't try and give you a customer service experience bince everyone buys tickets based on price, not service. Unless you're flying for a corporation that buys a ton of seats, they don't give half a shit about you.

Granted, you might occasionally find a flight attendant who is human and will try and help you, but they also have to spend 10 hours a day dealing with fat, sweatpants-wearing idiots who complain about a $5.50 Coors Light while earning shit wages, so they're not terribly inclined to help you much either.

[thunderhawk]

Apr 21, 2015 10:29:58 GMT -6 GhostMod 5000 said:

Unless you sprout wings and fly yourself, these assholes know they have you over a barrel. Like the article said, they had two options, wait a day or sit in puke. Bince 90% of recreational travelers just pick whatever seat is cheapest, airlines won't try and give you a customer service experience bince everyone buys tickets based on price, not service. Unless you're flying for a corporation that buys a ton of seats, they don't give half a shit about you.

Granted, you might occasionally find a flight attendant who is human and will try and help you, but they also have to spend 10 hours a day dealing with fat, sweatpants-wearing idiots who complain about a $5.50 Coors Light while earning shit wages, so they're not terribly inclined to help you much either.

Actually, they have you in a barrel.

A barrel full of obese, stinky proles mowing down Burger King or Taco Bell.

Thanks Obama.

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Apr 21, 2015 10:43:30 GMT -6 thunderhawk said:

Apr 21, 2015 10:29:58 GMT -6 GhostMod 5000 said:

Unless you sprout wings and fly yourself, these assholes know they have you over a barrel. Like the article said, they had two options, wait a day or sit in puke. Bince 90% of recreational travelers just pick whatever seat is cheapest, airlines won't try and give you a customer service experience bince everyone buys tickets based on price, not service. Unless you're flying for a corporation that buys a ton of seats, they don't give half a shit about you.

Granted, you might occasionally find a flight attendant who is human and will try and help you, but they also have to spend 10 hours a day dealing with fat, sweatpants-wearing idiots who complain about a $5.50 Coors Light while earning shit wages, so they're not terribly inclined to help you much either.

Actually, they have you in a barrel.

A barrel full of obese, stinky proles mowing down Burger King or Taco Bell.

Thanks Obama.

I just love it when someone near me brings McDonald's on board. Why the fuck is that even allowed?

[GhostMod 5000]

Apr 21, 2015 12:37:00 GMT -6 @tweeterhawk said:

Apr 21, 2015 10:43:30 GMT -6 thunderhawk said:

Actually, they have you in a barrel.

A barrel full of obese, stinky proles mowing down Burger King or Taco Bell.

Thanks Obama.

I just love it when someone near me brings McDonald's on board. Why the fuck is that even allowed?

Wait, that seriously happens? WTF? If you're going to be sealed in an aluminum tube with someone for three hours, do you really want to know they just crushed a McFartjuice value meal?

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Apr 21, 2015 12:49:00 GMT -6 GhostMod 5000 said:

Apr 21, 2015 12:37:00 GMT -6 @tweeterhawk said:

I just love it when someone near me brings McDonald's on board. Why the fuck is that even allowed?

Wait, that seriously happens? WTF? If you're going to be sealed in an aluminum tube with someone for three hours, do you really want to know they just crushed a McFartjuice value meal?

Yeah, sadly it does. You can usually buy it within a short distance of your departure gate.

[FoxHuntChampion]

Just when I thought he couldn't get more retarded, he does. Well done.