Summer 2019 Schedule and Equipment Changes
Feb 12, 2019, 9:49 am
#18
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Discount F is often excluded from CS cert usage. If they gave a discount F pax a CS cert that won't buy a similar ticket, that's not right.
Feb 12, 2019, 10:16 am
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I agree. In that case they should put the cert value in your account Wallet. That way you can only spend the money on AS, like they want, but you get to use it on a comparable fare.
Feb 12, 2019, 10:27 am
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Feb 12, 2019, 11:02 am
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Agreed. Of course, AS probably relies on the higher breakage of a one time discount code that can't be used for F, combined with other codes such as the Companion Fare, or split over multiple tickets.
Feb 12, 2019, 11:48 am
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If you want the Mods to do something, you need to click the red triangle at the left of a message which brings up "alert a moderator to this post". Mods don't generally read every thread just to look for posts addressed to "mods".
Mar 4, 2019, 9:10 pm
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Last edited by jrl767; Mar 4, 2019 at 9:17 pm
Mar 7, 2019, 7:50 am
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Mar 7, 2019, 5:34 pm
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the agent who took my call yesterday was amused at the auto-rebooking ... just for grins, I checked the flights a few minutes ago, and found that the seat maps don't actually show PC (in fact, even if you book Saver, you can select a seat in the first four rows!)
Mar 10, 2019, 12:28 pm
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Everyone has their own risk tolerance. But personally, with the loss of ET302 and all souls aboard, I will be booking away from the 7M9 whenever feasible until they figure this out and/or establish a better safety record. With JT610 one could dismiss it as “well, that’s JT,” but ET is a more professional carrier. There have now been two 100% fatal hull losses of the MAX with only ~350 delivered to date. That’s a terrible safety record in modern aviation. In comparison, there have been zero equivalent accidents since 2017 (the MAX entry date) among the 6,000+ 737NGs or 8,000 A320neo/ceos in service. Yes, that difference is statistically significant.
Mar 11, 2019, 12:22 pm
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Everyone has their own risk tolerance. But personally, with the loss of ET302 and all souls aboard, I will be booking away from the 7M9 whenever feasible until they figure this out and/or establish a better safety record. With JT610 one could dismiss it as “well, that’s JT,” but ET is a more professional carrier. There have now been two 100% fatal hull losses of the MAX with only ~350 delivered to date. That’s a terrible safety record in modern aviation. In comparison, there have been zero equivalent accidents since 2017 (the MAX entry date) among the 6,000+ 737NGs or 8,000 A320neo/ceos in service. Yes, that difference is statistically significant.