By friendly skies, you really mean surly skies right?

I just want to say for the record that:

*wood sucks

I was on co.com just now so I thought I'd vent here...because, after all, this is a bar, right?

IMHO, Hilton might not be as sexy as a W or a Westin, or as frequent or user-friendly as a Marriott, but at least they are honest and they are solid.

How have you been wronged, and what compensation do you think you are due? ;)

BTW, I didn't see Hilton giving away tix on FT to the Sugar, Rose, Fiesta, and MNC games...

Well, considering that MLU gets a mix of ERJ 145/135 & SF340, I prefer to get 12/9A on one of the jets rather than the Saab. Unfortunately, the necessities of scheduling got in the way.

I had a thought today as I was sitting at work, bored. I noticed over my Christmas flights (R/T FLL ex-PHL) that the outbound flight was on a 734, and the homebound on an A321. I also noticed that on the A321, my ears were much less prone to pain and general decompression problems. I experienced the same thing on some NK flights in the past on their Airbii. I'm wondering if this is a real phenomenon or I'm just a goofball, and if the discussion deserves its own place: do your ears behave better on Boeing vs. Airbii?

Personally, I have not noticed a difference...but my ears/sinuses don't tend to bother me much on flights. I did once encounter hellacious pain in my sinuses upon descent into SAN flying a CO 738, but it was a one-off occurrence (and one I hope never to repeat). It felt as if an ice-pick were being jammed directly into the area where my nose joined my forehead, right between the eyes.

I get some sort of pain or discomfort every time I fly, and I've thankfully only had icepick-level pain once...I've had sensitivity to altitude change so severe that I couldn't look down to pull something from the seat back...I guess the few inches that my head moved was enough to cause more pressure.

Sounds like you picked the wrong hobby :D

Can someone please refresh my little pea brain as to why all semblence of time seems to vanish around EWR?

Traveling over Christmas I was delayed, in total, 1.5x longer than I actually spent flying (EWR - SAV).

And can someone please help me figure out why ALL airlines treat RJ pax like garbage? The 113 - 115 gate area in EWR is probably my new least favorite airport spot in the whole country. It's worse than 35a in DCA.

Hey, CO, just because you can (in theory) operate 8 flights simultaneously out of a space about the size of my pinky toe doesn't mean you should, or have to.

I get it, you win the clown car game, now stop the insanity.

My UA E170 MIA-ORD flight left from a proper gate in MIA, just like a regular plane. It had an F cabin, and 1A had quite enjoyable, nearly limitless legroom. The FA was friendly enough, and the breakfast snack box was actually decent. I'll be trying out one of DL's E170s in F in about three weeks, and one of their CR9s in F a few weeks after that. RJs don't have to be miserable, but CO never got that memo...

Trying to keep the nerves squelched...am planning on popping the question to the Significant Otter tomorrow :eek:

:D :D :D

Wish me luck...

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Good luck!

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I have a new least favorite terminal facility. I'm sitting at LAX gate 36 waiting for my YX flight to MCI, and ATA has a flight out of the adjacent gate to HNL on a DC-10. Not only does this place have less ambience than IAH B84, it has only about 25% of the seats it needs to handle this many people. And it smells musty. I've always hated the facilities at LAX, but this is a new low, even for this airport.

Thank you!

Ooh, crackberry post...What exciting destination are you stuck in now? LFT, LBB, TYR, BHM? :p

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LAX. On my way to ATL via MCI and MKE. Then on to DCA early tomorrow morning.