Latest airline ripoff
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I booked thru a travel agent. Believe it or not it was $150 per ticket cheaper than I could get online. :shrug:
Northwest is actually pretty good about that in my experiences. I just read this weekend that booking through airlines is starting to be the way to go, so I am definitely going to have to look into that next time.
thats the only way that i do it..i'm not comfortable dealing with orbitz & the like...its either directly with the carrier ot a travel agent.....same with hotels. i check what the rates are at hotels.com & such & then negotiate with the hotels directly...
both through airline on the air tran flight they charged $6 x4 flights:shrug: to get a seat on usair no charge got seat numbers for both flights.
I like kayak.com, I will search a flight there and then when I find the cheapest I will go directly to that airline's website to book. It's usually 5 bucks or so cheaper than doing it through orbitz or kayak.
I actually was just about to buy 2 tix to LA for labor day week on American. I'm glad I read this today. Now I will choose another airline. :shrug: Is flying going to be like going to rural mexico? Are we gonna have to have spare change to take a piss on a flight next?
I actually was just about to buy 2 tix to LA for labor day week on American. I'm glad I read this today. Now I will choose another airline. :shrug: Is flying going to be like going to rural mexico? Are we gonna have to have spare change to take a piss on a flight next?
I find it incredible that everyone is complaining about a $15 charge for a bag. Where were all of you when the aforementioned airlines were shipping all the good paying jobs overseas, or when the CEO's took 380 million dollar bonuses after taking a loss on the year.
I find it incredible that people think they have the God given right to fly to Vegas or where ever for $45 when we are paying $130 a barrel for oil and outrageous fuel costs. Landing fees that exceed $50 per airplane in NY and LA, surcharges and taxes that account for more than 33% of your ticket price and you complain about the airline.
Does anyone realize that the price of a ticket from Chicago to Texas in reality should exceed $300 each way in order for the airlines to turn a profit. Whats more does anyone realize that many tax paying citizens, well over 300,000, are employed by those airlines and do everything they can to make your trip as comfortable and safe as possible.
You want to bitch then call the White House!!! Tell them to regulate, tell them to quit scheduling 102 departures per hour at LGA when it is physically impossible to do as they can only handle 72. It isn't the airlines that are screwing you its the government taxing and surcharging along with fuel prices.
Why is it that all citizens feel that they deserve the right to make and turn a profit in order to pay their employees a fair wage so they too can afford to live without taking a second job and busting their ass for 90 hours a damn week just to make ends meet.
Just for a little inside info for all of you, I work for the airlines and my salary is 70.09% behind what it should have been at this time taking into consideration inflation, concessions, no pay raise in ten years, loss of vacation and sick time, loss of overtime, layoffs by the thousands and you can't stand the horribly impossible $15 charge but not a single fuhkin one of you would hesitate for one second to raise the price of your service if your operating costs increased by more that 200% in a fiscal year.
For chrissakes have any of you stopped flying? No. Have any of you had a thought about those in the industry that are struggling with the fact the the job they have held for twenty years will soon be gone along with the pension that they have been paying into for the same? Hell no.
IF you don't want to pay it, don't. Stay the fuhk home or drive and pay for the damn gas yourself. Doesn't change a fuhking thing for us we are up shits creek because of the wonderful idea of deregulation.
The government allowing airlines to operate for more than ten years under bankruptcy (See America West, US Airways, Continental, Northwest to name a few) and due to the fact that they do not have to contribute to their pension funds to the tune of 600 million a year because they all abrogated theirs to the PBGC and your taxes are paying their pensions, but now worry they only get 30% of what is actually owed to those men and women that gave 25 years of service to the industry that gets you to the casino in an hour and a half so you can throw away far more than fifteen fuhkin bucks.
I am really sorry about the mean old airlines trying to make a fuhkin profit I will say something to Arpey when I see him. In the meantime I have to go to my second job. Unbelievable how fuhkin insensitive and ignorant the public is.
And damn right this subject pisses me off
While I realize everyone has the right to not like something and voice their opinion as I just did mine, what you DON'T have a RIGHT to is to go from ST. Louis to Vegas for $45. If yo ufind that fare then great if you dont then tough shit
I find it incredible that people think they have the God given right to fly to Vegas or where ever for $45 when we are paying $130 a barrel for oil and outrageous fuel costs. Landing fees that exceed $50 per airplane in NY and LA, surcharges and taxes that account for more than 33% of your ticket price and you complain about the airline.
Does anyone realize that the price of a ticket from Chicago to Texas in reality should exceed $300 each way in order for the airlines to turn a profit. Whats more does anyone realize that many tax paying citizens, well over 300,000, are employed by those airlines and do everything they can to make your trip as comfortable and safe as possible.
You want to bitch then call the White House!!! Tell them to regulate, tell them to quit scheduling 102 departures per hour at LGA when it is physically impossible to do as they can only handle 72. It isn't the airlines that are screwing you its the government taxing and surcharging along with fuel prices.
Why is it that all citizens feel that they deserve the right to make and turn a profit in order to pay their employees a fair wage so they too can afford to live without taking a second job and busting their ass for 90 hours a damn week just to make ends meet.
Just for a little inside info for all of you, I work for the airlines and my salary is 70.09% behind what it should have been at this time taking into consideration inflation, concessions, no pay raise in ten years, loss of vacation and sick time, loss of overtime, layoffs by the thousands and you can't stand the horribly impossible $15 charge but not a single fuhkin one of you would hesitate for one second to raise the price of your service if your operating costs increased by more that 200% in a fiscal year.
For chrissakes have any of you stopped flying? No. Have any of you had a thought about those in the industry that are struggling with the fact the the job they have held for twenty years will soon be gone along with the pension that they have been paying into for the same? Hell no.
IF you don't want to pay it, don't. Stay the fuhk home or drive and pay for the damn gas yourself. Doesn't change a fuhking thing for us we are up shits creek because of the wonderful idea of deregulation.
The government allowing airlines to operate for more than ten years under bankruptcy (See America West, US Airways, Continental, Northwest to name a few) and due to the fact that they do not have to contribute to their pension funds to the tune of 600 million a year because they all abrogated theirs to the PBGC and your taxes are paying their pensions, but now worry they only get 30% of what is actually owed to those men and women that gave 25 years of service to the industry that gets you to the casino in an hour and a half so you can throw away far more than fifteen fuhkin bucks.
I am really sorry about the mean old airlines trying to make a fuhkin profit I will say something to Arpey when I see him. In the meantime I have to go to my second job. Unbelievable how fuhkin insensitive and ignorant the public is.
And damn right this subject pisses me off
While I realize everyone has the right to not like something and voice their opinion as I just did mine, what you DON'T have a RIGHT to is to go from ST. Louis to Vegas for $45. If yo ufind that fare then great if you dont then tough shit
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fdc, i hope this helps :mj07:
i may have a buzz and that might be the problem but i could NOT read that post right now as much as i wanted to.
i'll try again tomorrow.
break it up some, slick :shrug:
i may have a buzz and that might be the problem but i could NOT read that post right now as much as i wanted to.
i'll try again tomorrow.
break it up some, slick :shrug:
Big Boy,and don't get mad at me.
i'm just here to help
I truly NEVER get mad................
Just don't have much tolerance for those that don't do their homework. Other than that I am good. Up visiting in Chicago and having a gas.
I tried to break it up as best I can, but I just sat through two hours of the play Jersey Boys and have a bit of pent up energy.
Besides, I had nothing better to do right yet. Waiting for the boys to pick me up have a big night planned at Buddy Guy's Blues bar.. and I am about half way throught the case of Stella Artois anyway.
Hope this helps,
FDC
Wasn't all bad. Went with my Mom and the rest of her prayer group. Was fun..................................oh God someone kill me now
and don't get mad at me.
i'm just here to help
DON'T WORRY BOSS HE'S JUST PISSED I.O. MADE GO TO THE JERSEY BOY THING
Okay maybe I misunderstood what you meant by break it up. You mean like not say so much in one post but stretch it over a number of posts? Maybe address each individual issue that I mentioned? Have another Stella and say the hell with it? Explain it to you later when we are both drunk stuck in a sand trap in august some time? Or are you wanting me just to shut up altogether.
I didn't know that IO likes that gay stuff. Actually the show wasn't that bad. What was bad is the "Sea Monsters" show at the IMAX at the Museum of Science and Industry.
Just pulling his chain :mj07: he and his little lady went to a show so I ran with it that's all I like IO :00hour
I hope it wasnt Sea Monsters. It sucked sohard it was hard to catch my breath. Heading back to TX tomorrow, kinda sad. No more Portillos
I was bracing myself for the pocket picking the government was about to give me for "bailing out" the airlines.
A simple "thank you" would do.
If the airlines were any run-of-the-mill industry, they would have been left to drown.
