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Old Nov 27, 2003 | 2:44 pm
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lisamcgu
 
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I agree that if I click onto my guide and see anymore space allocated for the World Poker Tour or another boring, as 100% endless blatant marketing usually is, 10 Best show on there, I am going to snooze to death.

Every flight its something. Either it rules with a showing of great food, drink, comfort and service, or its an obnoxious seatmate going out of there way to make others as uncomfortable as they are.

When I tell people I am a frequent flyer they all want to tell me about their most recent flight, either how it was so great or so shocking to them, for whatever reason, the flight staff, others on board. Or how interesting their flight was. Like what was refered to me as a Pedia-flight with no less than half the plane's seats filled with children, or supposed to be filled, alot spent most of the flight running up and down the aisles and exhibiting other juvi behavior. My friend ended up covered in some little tyke's meal. (FRA-ORD Xmas time 2 yrs ago - no specific reason, it just happened that all these families had clogged the flight.)

My only reservation about such a show would be all the tips, tricks and unpublished perks the masses would suddenly be privvy to. Granted, there aren't many loopholes left to close, but what few there are ...

Of course, even I would like to see some knowledgeable frequent flier take an airline to task on its rules or, for instance, DOT's rules, preferably in front of a big crowd of their fellow passengers, when the airline is trying to pass off fiction as fact. This happens regularly, so I would think the show would be able to feature such a tidbit on each episode. I would watch it each week just for this, to see someone expose how often the airline lies, give knowledge on beneficial rules and passenger rights and show how to get them implemented.
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