A Modest Proposal
Sep 14, 2000 | 4:05 pm
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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.
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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.
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Sep 14, 2000 | 5:16 pm
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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
Maybe we should also rig Bill Gates personal computer to crash every hour
Sep 14, 2000 | 5:42 pm
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Originally posted by PG:
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Maybe we should also rig Bill Gates personal computer to crash every hour
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Maybe we should also rig Bill Gates personal computer to crash every hour
"If Bill Gates had a nickel for everytime Windows crashed....oh, wait....HE DOES!"
JD
Sep 14, 2000 | 5:46 pm
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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.
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Sep 14, 2000 | 8:08 pm
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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??/
Well maybe that is not fair??/
Sep 14, 2000 | 8:41 pm
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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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But I think that could result in a violation of the Geneva Convention.
And another candlelight vigil by Amnesty International.
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"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own."
Sep 14, 2000 | 8:59 pm
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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 
)seat. Compensation for bumping, oh,ok twist his arm and he will take a few million more stock options
)seat. Compensation for bumping, oh,ok twist his arm and he will take a few million more stock options