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Old Oct 5, 2003 | 7:42 pm
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inlanikai
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This reminds me of the age old observation: There are 3 types of liars in this world - liars, **** liars and statisticians.

A few questions about this:

* Are they counting a pax who makes a connection as 2 pax or one?

* Are they counting as a domestic passenger one who boards in the US but flies to the Carribean or any other international destination? Or one who connects domestically but is ticketed to an international destinations?

I live 10 minutes from ISP but I avoid WN like the plauge for my money and keep driving west on the L.I.E. to LGA or JFK and board AA. This is an airline who initially refused to give a boarding pass to my Singaporean collegue I was travelling with because his passport (with a picture like all passports) was "not a government issued photo ID".

For those who think this is a big deal for WN or some how says something about WN's business competitiveness in comparison to AA, fine, whatever floats your boat. But any comparison is apples to oranges.
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