A Modest Proposal
 

I have a proposal which I believe is more likely to improve airline travel than anything in the proposed "bill or rights" the airline lobby torpedoed with a bunch of empty promises:

Pass a law requiring the CEO of each airline to fly once a month on the longest nonstop flight the airline sells. In coach. In a full row. In a center seat. One row in front of the exit row.

[This message has been edited by gilpin (edited 09-14-2000).]

Let him or her fly late afternoon the day before thanksgiving, with three bags of luggage and an electronic ticket !!

This sounds equivalent to the Chinese requiring all their airline exceutives to be in the air at midnight on 1/1/2000. However, it sounds like a bit of a non-starter to me http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

Or how about requiring the President and Congresspeople to sit in the middle seats on the longest flights. Now that would produce some pretty quick action.

Maybe we should also rig Bill Gates personal computer to crash every hour http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

I'm all for it as long as it frees up an upgrade seat.

If he's using Windoze, it probably already does.

"If Bill Gates had a nickel for everytime Windows crashed....oh, wait....HE DOES!"

JD

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Didn't someone with too much time on their hands work out how much money Bill Gates would have to see on the floor to make it worth his time bending down to pick it up? I think it was something like $3000.

[This message has been edited by james (edited 09-14-2000).]

and as long as he has to buy it at aa.com

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Let's make sure those CEO's stand in the non-elite lines that wind around the airport!

Great idea, however, include a change of planes!

at Atlanta

Just requiring airline employees and their families fly in those seats would open up most of the best seats for upgrades!!!!!!!!

Well maybe that is not fair??/

I'd suggest flying NW out of DTW.

But I think that could result in a violation of the Geneva Convention.

And another candlelight vigil by Amnesty International.


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What a great idea, akin to getting politicians to do their own taxes. However I suspect that the rate of cancellations on those flights due to mechanical would be close to 100%. Either that or they would be overbooked and the CEO would magnanimously give up his/her (oh that's right there are no female major airline CEO's http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif )seat. Compensation for bumping, oh,ok twist his arm and he will take a few million more stock options http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

AND they must eat the dreaded CO TRI COLOR PASTA!