Wow! You must have really gotten under that FA's skin! While I agree with you that this rule is stupid, you can't get away with arguing with FAs these days. It just doesn't fly (pun intended
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I've flown ATA once on a short hop (MDW-MKE). From start to finish the agents were rude, both on the ground and the one FA on this small plane. We're talking about a flight of less than 30 minutes and this FA still managed to ruin it.
On the other hand, I've had very good experience on Frontier. If you're flying to DEN they are a great option, especially with their new planes.
You won't catch me on an ATA flight any time soon.
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