<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by kokonutz:
And, FWIW, I'll have to ask Cluebyfour where he left my clue, seeing as I am apparently clueless.
Clued in or not, I'll take a circa 1999 Airbus to galavant around the midwest on midcons to a circa 1979 MD-80 any old day, thank you very much.
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Glad you paged.
I don't think you are clueless, my friend, I think you had a few bad experiences. Nothing wrong with that--a half dozen really crappy experiences have kept me off UA metal (forever for all intents and purposes). However:
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You can be the last one on the plane and get a decent seat on the ancient MD-80. Enjoy 23B on that A319 (E---). You get power scattered thru the entire coach cabin on most/all AA aircraft. The seat power on AA works darned near all the time (I've been told that the working empower port on UA is a bird as rare as the proverbial albatross). You rarely experience the quality Overhead- equipment similar to UA's Boeing equipment.
Regarding the age of the equipment, I'd urge you to consider if that shiny new fleet is doing UA a whit of good while in Chapter 11. Maybe AA can buy some....
I'm finished now. With the smarty-pants stuff done to illustrate my point
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I think what my distinguished colleague from Virginia is trying to hint at is ClueByFour's Third Law of Travel:
All Airlines Suck. Some just suck less than others.
Clearly then, even the AA zealot can appreciate that for Mr Nutz, UA sucks less
. And that's all the Clue one needs.
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Saving the world, one clue at a time.
[This message has been edited by ClueByFour (edited 03-04-2003).]