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Feb 10, 2010, 12:29 pm
#17
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: FL380
Posts: 254
Feb 10, 2010, 1:23 pm
#18
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: PDX: "It's where young people go to retire."
Programs: AS MVPG, HH/SPG Peonium, Natl, Bud, Oregon Wines on Broadway Wineaux
Posts: 233
The way this is going, 20 years from now, I'll be saying something like:
"Back in my day, they gave away soda for free. Also, the F/As didn't go up and down the aisle selling toilet paper by the linear yard and the TSA agents allowed you to keep most of your clothes on. Boy, those were the golden days of aviation.
Hold on son, we're at the beginning of the line. Whaddya mean--Special Screening again? <grimace>"
"Back in my day, they gave away soda for free. Also, the F/As didn't go up and down the aisle selling toilet paper by the linear yard and the TSA agents allowed you to keep most of your clothes on. Boy, those were the golden days of aviation.
Hold on son, we're at the beginning of the line. Whaddya mean--Special Screening again? <grimace>"
Feb 10, 2010, 4:53 pm
#21
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: PDX: "It's where young people go to retire."
Programs: AS MVPG, HH/SPG Peonium, Natl, Bud, Oregon Wines on Broadway Wineaux
Posts: 233
Feb 10, 2010, 6:53 pm
#22
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: SEA
Programs: AS MVP, Hhonors Gold, National Executive, Identity Gold, MLife Gold
Posts: 2,687
Feb 10, 2010, 9:28 pm
#24
Original Poster
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: ANC
Programs: AS MVPG 75K, UA 2P
Posts: 1,453
Some may like the homogenization, but hey, I'm one of those people who miss hearing regional accents on the local news channels.
we got punked
Feb 11, 2010, 9:02 am
#28
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 332
Alas, AS is becoming more and more like Every Other Airline, which is why being served a steady airline diet of Funyuns and 1oz Cokes seemed so plausable to so many FTers.
Some may like the homogenization, but hey, I'm one of those people who miss hearing regional accents on the local news channels.
Some may like the homogenization, but hey, I'm one of those people who miss hearing regional accents on the local news channels.
Clearly there are still people only reading your first post and haven't read the subsequent posts or checked out the press release section of alaskaair.com to determine your statements are actually false.
While I understand the joke and you probably meant no harm, I don't know if it is in good taste to use somebody's real name in a false statement to "prove" that you think AS is becoming more like every other airline.
Feb 11, 2010, 10:27 am
#29
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: BLI
Programs: Alaska Million Mile Flyer, Marriott Lifetime Titanium Elite
Posts: 3,193
I like a good joke, sardonic or sarcastic, as much as anyone as long as it's clever and not cruel. But there seems to be a sense of humor missing in subsequent responses, for some reason, perhaps because it's turning out the original post was meant less as a jest and more as a dig.
Last edited by Seattlenerd; Feb 11, 2010 at 10:34 am Reason: added rationale
Feb 11, 2010, 3:09 pm
#30
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: ANC
Programs: AS MVPG 75K, UA 2P
Posts: 1,453
A Modest Reproach
I like a good joke, sardonic or sarcastic, as much as anyone as long as it's clever and not cruel. But there seems to be a sense of humor missing in subsequent responses, for some reason, perhaps because it's turning out the original post was meant less as a jest and more as a dig.
I really must be going: I mustn't be tardy for my triannual ear waxing appointment.
Last edited by BillScann; Feb 11, 2010 at 4:43 pm Reason: corrected # of ear waxing appts/added a second smiley face so FTers didn't think I went for thrice annual ear wax jobs. eom.