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Dec 21, 2013, 10:47 am

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andyh64000

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Originally Posted by DL2SXM

hard to imagine what it must be like to fly on a UA 747 in coach for 12 + hours. I mean, we're almost to the year 2014, UA is supposed to be this big global airline, and you get no IFE in coach...Now to boot, no free booze of any kind. The booze is what would make a flight on one of these birds tolerable, you would think UA would do there best to get you smashed.

They figure you will be so desperate you will hand them your credit card. They have $2B to make up...more when people stop flying them for crap like this (likely me for example, currently in negotiations with DL).