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A) You have a decent variety of drinks on board an aircraft, more so than you do at your local fast food restaurant. The choice is yours. </font>
No, I have what they tell me I have, and it's not much. Any local concert or broadway theatre has a much larger selection
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B) And you would have to check your bag at a concert... why? I am not aware of arenas/stadiums/concert halls allowing bags at all, not even a holding place. Many stadiums would turn you away, bag and all.
And some have a secure area where you can leave the briefcase, laptop, etc and pick it up later, some have lockers. Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exhist
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C) Using another example US Airways used, a Broadway show.... you would never be able to leave and come back later, you leave, you lose. Anyone with theatre ettiquette would be able to agree.
Not true at all. If I'm at a broadway show and I want to go out for a smoke or a soda, I can do so, and return when I want. The only restriction is during the beginning of the first act when they penalize the late comers, but other then that you can come and go as you please, or with very little delay for a break. I wouldn't do it, but I could.
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D) Generally, you can get a full can of soda on board an aircraft, just ask. It may not be a container, they have no space for Big gulps, but a can would surely suffice. By the way, can't get a can on Southwest or JetBlue either without asking. As far as begging for a knife.... if they had one, you would get it, if they don't have one, no point in begging, wasting a lot of your time, aren't you? That's like going to a Broadway show and expecting them to provide you with something because you decided to not to bring your own. Wait, whatever would you need a knife for at the theatre anyway? Theatres and concerts don't allow outside food and drinks.
Continential's new policy is you have to ask for a knife for breakfast, it will save them $80,000 this year. There are many concerts that allow picnic baskets, coolers, and bottles of wine, again because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Even if itis in an arena instead of an outdoor one that may not let in the food, there are still plastic knives available without being made to feel you are responsible for the demise of the airline because you asked for a knife.
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E) I hardly doubt security at a concert would be better able to detect what is detected at airports. Theatre's don't even have security checks. But, bet that would change if a terrorist were to hijack you and other patrons while watching the opera.
I would tend to think the woman who carried the loaded gun through atlanta, the man with the knives in chicago, the shoe bomber guy, the woman who flew from upstate New York to White Plains with the loaded gun, the guy who boarded the Southwest flight with a loaded gun would all disagree with that, though none of them probably had a nail clipper. I would also venture that all of them would not have made it into a concert where they were checking people, because as sad as it is, the concert security people care about their job and are way more intelligent then the airport security people.
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F) What theatre would allow you to leave your cell phone on? I take that back, you do have the option to silence it. However, when is the last time transmissions from your cell phone interupted a show. Okay, so it hasn't been entirely proven to have done that on board a plane, but then again, who would be willing to try it and test it. Get serious.
Every theartre and arena lets you leave your telephones and pagers on. Exactly how many airplanes have been downed because of a cell phone or a pager being left on? Do you really believe they are all turned off all the time?
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There are many comparisons to make in regard to concert/theatre tickets and airline tickets, not all would match up, they are two different things, after all. But when you buy a concert ticket, you aren't buying a contract with the venue or performers. When you buy a ticket from an airline, you buy a contract. You can't just scalp your will on to some passerby because you don't think you are going to die. There are legalities to be handled, like so much in life. Get used to it, if you haven't already done so. Life is not fair. Air travel is something you pay for, not something you earn, to do with what you like.
Wrong again. This entire notion of it being a contract is bull. It's not a contract, I am buying a service. I agree to no terms, I sign nothing. The contract of carriage is 40 pages long, and there isn't any way an airline is going to say that in the 30 seconds they processed my transaction that they fully explained everything in that contract to me and I agreed to all of it. This notion of a contract will probably very soon be tested should United charge somebody for back to back tickets, and there isn't any way the airline will win. You can't have a contract if one party is not made aware of the conditions, and they never agree to them.
US Air started the comparison, saying it was the reason for some of the changes. You are right, there are many comparisons that can be made, and in most of them the broadway show or concert come out ahead. The new rules are there to screw people out of money, make flying more inconivinient, and cause people to fly other airlines that don't have silly rules like this, or not fly at all. The airlines will be committing suicide if the big six all commit to this over the weekend.
Lastly, my post was in jest, you take things way too seriously.
[This message has been edited by cordelli (edited 08-30-2002).]