It was my fault: I was the guy trying to get 25k miles
Jan 17, 2007, 8:08 am
#31
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: About 45 miles NW of MCO
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Then I've been getting ripped off for all these years. I've paid to go in buses, movie theatres, concerts, amusement parks, museums, rented movies, cable tv, DSL, long distance calls, payed college tuition etc... Even the all you can eat buffets were going to throw out the extra food at the end of the night and the vegtables at the super market were going to spoil and be thrown out. The clothes I wear were going to go out of season and out of fashion. There was a flood at the car dealership the week after I bought my car so insurance would have paid for it. My builder had to keep his guys busy or they would have found a job somewhere else.
Where does it end?
Where does it end?
Jan 17, 2007, 8:36 am
#32
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 1,236
It hasn't ended yet in the airline industry.
As of 2005 Airline industry
Historical profits: $18-billion
Historical losses: $32 billion
Every time we pay $300 for a plane ticket some unlucky investor pitches in another $131.50 and we feel like all we cost the airline is peanuts a coke and $8.00 worth of fuel.
It gives me a chance to repeat investor Warren Buffett's old dig at the industry:
"If I'd been at Kitty Hawk in 1903 when Orville Wright took off, I would have been farsighted enough, and public-spirited enough -- I owed this to future capitalists -- to shoot him down."
As of 2005 Airline industry
Historical profits: $18-billion
Historical losses: $32 billion
Every time we pay $300 for a plane ticket some unlucky investor pitches in another $131.50 and we feel like all we cost the airline is peanuts a coke and $8.00 worth of fuel.
It gives me a chance to repeat investor Warren Buffett's old dig at the industry:
"If I'd been at Kitty Hawk in 1903 when Orville Wright took off, I would have been farsighted enough, and public-spirited enough -- I owed this to future capitalists -- to shoot him down."
Jan 17, 2007, 8:55 am
#33
Join Date: Dec 2005
Programs: DL Diamond. LT SkyClub, AGR, passport
Posts: 742
Then I've been getting ripped off for all these years. I've paid to go in buses, movie theatres, concerts, amusement parks, museums, rented movies, cable tv, DSL, long distance calls, payed college tuition etc... Even the all you can eat buffets were going to throw out the extra food at the end of the night and the vegtables at the super market were going to spoil and be thrown out. The clothes I wear were going to go out of season and out of fashion. There was a flood at the car dealership the week after I bought my car so insurance would have paid for it. My builder had to keep his guys busy or they would have found a job somewhere else.
Where does it end?
Where does it end?
Jan 17, 2007, 9:24 am
#34
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: MIA
Programs: AAdvantage EXP, HH Diamond, Marriott Plat, Hertz PC, Delta PM, SPG Gold
Posts: 1,031
Then I've been getting ripped off for all these years. I've paid to go in buses, movie theatres, concerts, amusement parks, museums, rented movies, cable tv, DSL, long distance calls, payed college tuition etc... Even the all you can eat buffets were going to throw out the extra food at the end of the night and the vegtables at the super market were going to spoil and be thrown out. The clothes I wear were going to go out of season and out of fashion. There was a flood at the car dealership the week after I bought my car so insurance would have paid for it. My builder had to keep his guys busy or they would have found a job somewhere else.
Where does it end?
Where does it end?
People get up in arms about overbooking of airline flights, but if I paid $400 for a fare and guy B buys a last minute ticket for $2000, I get bumped. AA gives me a $400 voucher, a hotel room, dinner, and still provides me $400 worth of transportation. They still come out ahead.Plus overbooking allows the airlines to charge less for everyone.
Jan 18, 2007, 9:47 pm
#35
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Washington DC USA
Posts: 2,571
Her response was "and that's the way we [the FAs] like it. Of course, the company likes it this way. They must have been practically giving away seats to fill this plane up."
I didn't really have a good comeback to this, so I just sort of nodded and grunted.
Kind of reinforces the self-loading cargo ethos, no?
Jan 19, 2007, 8:59 am
#36
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Location: About 45 miles NW of MCO
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Maybe, maybe not. On my last AA trip, I flew MIA-SJU on a flight where every single seat was full. The last several times I took that same flight, it was half empty or more. As we were preparing to depart, I remarked to a flight attendant that the flight was usually a lot less full the other times I had taken it.
Her response was "and that's the way we [the FAs] like it. Of course, the company likes it this way. They must have been practically giving away seats to fill this plane up."
I didn't really have a good comeback to this, so I just sort of nodded and grunted.
Kind of reinforces the self-loading cargo ethos, no?
Her response was "and that's the way we [the FAs] like it. Of course, the company likes it this way. They must have been practically giving away seats to fill this plane up."
I didn't really have a good comeback to this, so I just sort of nodded and grunted.
Kind of reinforces the self-loading cargo ethos, no?