Originally Posted by
ddrost1
apologists will always be apologists, just as haters will always be haters. it will never end around here.
as for me i just avoid EWR unless it is for O/D flying, or truly no other option exists (which given no direct flights from EWR to my home airports it is usually that i could not connect there even if i wanted to).
there are a number of flights like this to and from EWR that they mix up flight #s on to pad the stats, at least that is my conspiracy theory. one of them (i don't remember the #) is GSO-EWR on some days and something like ORD-PIA on others. dilutes out the EWR delays by a measurable amount, giving the flight number a mediocre rather than completely awful performance figure.
And folks who have no concept of forensic discussion (or a cogent argument) will belittle any argument with "apologists" and "Kool-aid". I thought better of FT than to resort to Congress-like zingers (like Clinton's aide being an al-qaeda operative). But I guess it's easier to throw out "apologist" than to address facts. Keep them coming, though. They only prove my points.
But now I know, thanks to you and your deeply researched theory, that only EWR flights get flight number changes solely to pad/dilute the stats.
