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!

With a minimum 4 hour taxiway wait, complete with sweltering cabin and overflowing toilets.

So just about any day at DTW should do.

How come nobody has mentioned having a few screaming toddlers nearby???

Because everything else mentioned is (at some point) within the control of the airline!

Your comment about toddlers just shows what an idiot or snob you are (depending on your knowledge of early childhood).

Oouch! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/eek.gif

Can you imagine what it'd be like without Congressional members typically having two homes and also having to fly quite a bit? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

I'm personally grateful that they do! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

I forgot to mention the screaming toddlers because it's so loud in here... from the screaming toddlers... I couldn't think straight! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif
I also think they should have to fly on a priceline ticket... and request changes...

HELLO ..... 20 posts on this topic so far and no-one has mentioned making the brass eat the FOOOOOD! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Dear Ozstamps:

See six posts above yours for another installment of cigarman's obsession with tricolor pasta on Continental.

Sincerely,
Kitty Hawk
(who got offered STEAK last week! heeheehee)

Kitty Hawk .. got it! Actually you had me worried .. went to 5 posts above my last in error, and did not like the culinary idea of what I saw there!

Pasta ... LUXXXURY. Jim Goodwin UA should dine on the sole menu of Ptrrezzels in First on a 2 hours SH!TTLE flight!

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What, give up Employee Class (on UA)?? This whole thread sounded plausible until you suggested that! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

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[This message has been edited by Spiff (edited 09-15-2000).]

Make them carry on a lot of bags and board late so they have to gate check them!! Also, be sure the person in front reclines all the way.

I wonder if Herb ever joins the cattle call at SWA when he flys (if he flys Southwest at all)?

I hope Herb has to watch a third of the plane "pre-board" in front of him (i.e., anyone who is, or is traveling with, someone under age 21 or over 55).

Sorry for wasting bandwidth but...

My early childhood taught me that if you can't say something nice about someone, then you don't say it.


[This message has been edited by KIR@GCM (edited 09-16-2000).]

Indeed - CEOs should have to see the sort of madness that ordinary passengers have to put up with, intolerable waits, being sent from queue to queue to deal with excess baggage payments, having to stand for an hour because there is not enough seating at the gate, or getting bumped from the flight altogether. I would like Robert Milton to try to book a ticket on his own airline (Air Canada) and to do so by calling his own (regular) reservations line. Then maybe he will begin to understand why the value of AC shares increased substantially when HM Government passed legislation threatening to send him to gaol for 5 years if he made things any worse (true story).

By the way, the Chief Executive of Go is female, and an American. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif (although i guess it is not a "major" carrier)

It's NOT an obsession...the **** stuff seems to follow me on every flight! Sometimes THEY ARE OUT TO GET YOU! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif
Kittyhawk...STEAK?...payback...payback http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif