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Comment by Ed Wetschler on April 4, 2011 at 10:28am

"Low-cost carrier AirTran had the best overall performance of the 16 largest U.S. carriers last year in an annual study of airline quality." -Associated Press "The study is based on Department of Transportation data on on-time performance, mishandled baggage, bumpings due to overbooking and consumer complaints."

Comment by EnLinea Media on April 1, 2011 at 1:26pm

Today in the Tripatini blog: more controversial surcharges from Spirit Airline?

Comment by EnLinea Media on March 27, 2011 at 4:43pm

Ever wonder whatever happened to PeoplExpress? Or all those other dearly departed airlines of yore? Member Max Pesling's interesting blog post spills the beans.

Comment by Cheryl Ann Murphy on March 25, 2011 at 9:28am

New to the group and looking forward to discussions!!

Comment by Blazing Sun Travels on March 21, 2011 at 5:08am

 

 

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Comment by Anil on March 18, 2011 at 5:13pm

I agree with Buzzy Gordon: Communicate communicate and communicate. What a simple question can elicit, an FBI and subsequent headaches cannot resolve. 

 

Is there more to the story than has been reported ? 

Comment by Buzzy Gordon on March 18, 2011 at 2:27pm

C'mon, guys, if you ignore a fasten seat belt sign for any variety of reasons (because you need to go to the bathroom, or get medicine from your hand baggage, for example) you are breaking a rule -- but does this get you questioned by the FBI? If there is not enough combined intelligence among the entire flight crew to ascertain directly from the passengers what was going on (don't forget, they had already passed strict airport security to get on board, including scrutiny of their phylacteries), then the airline deserves to get lambasted -- if not for cultural insensitivity, then for downright stupidity.

Comment by Nayaz Noor on March 17, 2011 at 11:34pm

 I have to agree with Max's opinion.

 

 

Comment by John Kipper on March 17, 2011 at 9:56pm

OK, so now on the same day as the three jewsh guys got questioned in LA for praying in hebrew, a muslim woman is denied boarding on aflight out of sandiego because some flight attendant heard her say "i gotta go" on her cell phone and thought she meant "it's a go". like that automatically means that the woman is part of a terrorist plot!!! will stupidity never cease? i'm all for more secrurity but for heavens sake be reasonable folks!! i mean if this woman is a hardened terrorist is she going to stand there at the gate and talk about it on a cell phone???

 

sometimes i wonder if theres intelligent life onthis planet.

Comment by Max Pesling on March 16, 2011 at 4:37pm

Anti-semitism on Alaska Airlines? CNN reports that three Orthodox Jews caused a major hooha on a flight from Mexico when they ignored the seatbelt sign and started wrapping their tefillin around their arms and heads and chanting in Hebrew. Apparently no one on this flight, not even the flight attendants, were familiar with this type of prayer, so they thought these guys were terrorists. They radioed ahead, and the three men were questioned by the FBI at LAX. Now the airline has apologized to the three men for their "cultural insensitivity."

 

Now, I'm as Jewish as gefilte fish, but I think this is ridiculous. Why should the airline apologize? The men were not harassed for being Jewish, they were reprimanded for not observing the captain's and flight attendants' orders (i.e., sit down during turbulence!). Does this mean that every time someone wants to do a religious ritual on a plane, they can disregard safety regulations? If an Opus Dei catholic wants to flog his back in the aisle, is that cool too? If a santeria practitioner wants to sacrifice a goat in the lavatory, do we allow that?

 

Come on, folks, when we board a plane, we have to observe some common sense rules. Pray when you get off the plane, G-d can wait!

 

Or am I being unfair?? 

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