Because, if someone flies enough, he/she will realize that this could or even will happen on any airline. It's not that people give Delta a pass. They realize that given their situation, DL is still the best choice for them. You'll hear FTers badmouth every airline and then you'll have apologists for every airline but I rarely if ever hear even from the most stringent apologist that any airline is perfect.

I hate WN with a passion and not because of any specific event or problem but because of the way they do business, i.e., open seating, that other pax absolutely love. But I will never say I won't fly them because I will have to at some point and I will hate it again. Rinse and repeat!

Not that any of this really has to do with the topic...

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That's my take exactly . . . even including why you prefer to never fly WN while acknowledging it may happen :-)

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1) I was LAX-FLL in a Y filled with crazies: police came on and interrogated a pax b4 pushing back (he got to stay) and an elderly spanish speaking woman insisting to see the captain after some coffee spilled on her during turbulence (FA declared her an unruly pax and almost landed in PHX)

BUT a few rows up was some 40something guy with hair just enuf askew to look like he needs meds. He kept turning around every few mins, eyes wide open, then turning back around. I'm keeping my eye on him the rest of the trip. We're deplaning and at the end of the jetway he's arguing with the GA that he needs to go back, he left something on the plane. Turns out the 'something' was HIS CHILDREN!!!!!

2) I'm in security at FLL, the line is about 10min long. I'm next in line and some guy with wife and 3 kids (strollers!!!!) comes up and pushes to the front and says: "We have a plane to catch."

Because the rest of us are there for the Terminal 2 Cinnabon.

Best part: he gets "randomly selected for additional screening" as the people he cut pass right by. I'd like to say I didn't snicker, but I am not that strong of a person;)

thats gold if true however both comments suspiciously like a couple of 'blonde' jokes I have heard in the past.... ;)

^ A few friends and I did a weekend trip in Vegas this weekend and we were talking about a few of our past trips and I mentioned how awful WN was with IRROPs and that I couldn't believe they had fewer complaints than Delta and my friends made a great point. The reason they have so few complaints, is that WN offers NOTHING to complain about. They don't offer international service, so no complaints there.

They don't offer upgrades, so people can't complain about that. They offer no food service, so people can't complain about that. No IFE, so they can't complain their IFE system didn't work.

They don't interline baggage, so again no complaints there.

If you took away all the complaints against Delta and other mainlines for services WN didn't offer, they wouldn't have nearly the complaints.

And even though WN has been considerably more than Delta on the flights I checked lately (enough that the kettles could pay $25 each way to check a bag and still save $), with their ads for no bag fees, they have the kettles convinced they are a great value.

That's Karma for you, his rudeness was like waving a red flag in from of TSA.

A few years ago I was flying a PHX-ORD flight and the woman next to me kept muttering "this is the longest flight EVER". I think it clocked in as under 3 hours...what a whiner!

Funny.. sometimes I think my shorthaul flights are longer than my long haul flights..

When entering into a 5 or 6 hour flight.. mentally I've prepared myself for it.. but a flight to YVR from YYC.. if I'm not prepared for it.. I'll say to myself, I can't wait to get off the plane..

I thought I was the only one like that. IAD/FCO, not a problem. BWI/ORD: (silently) "Cripes, are we there yet?" accompanied by internal wordless whining.:D

Funny.. I can't stand to do some of the simplest things.. like waiting around for my wife to get ready..

but sit down and watch a hockey game for 3 hours.. or take 7 hours to golf, and relax.. no problems.:D

Its the mental preparedness going into the flight.. One can be completely stressed or completely relaxed..:)

and here I thought only a kettle would let hertz give them a prius :D

It always annoys me that YYZ to LAX / SFO is as long as it is - it's domestic (well, we arrive at a domestic part of the airport!) so it shouldn't be close to Transatlantic timewise (in my head).

Another factor may be is flying over water could be more relaxing than flying over land..

It has a different feel to it.. I know flying is flying.. but when there is clear blue water and sky.. it does change the mindset..

I usually get ansy YYC-YYZ.. than I do YYC-HOU.. which is longer.. Perhaps destination in the mind has something to do with it too.

This isn't necessarily the dumbest comment I have heard, but is the rudest statement. I have been flying a lot for work lately including international.

Last month I did a short trip to MUN and was only home for two days and then had to fly MSP-MAD with a 3 hour layover at ATL. I got upgraded for the MSP-ATL domestic portion of the flight and there was decent sized upgrade list. There were four uniformed military on our flight.

I boarded with first and the servicemen all seated in Y came on the plane shortly after, so the GA must have allowed them to board before zone 1. One of the last people to board had the nerve to complain to her friend very loudly that all the servicemen were seated in coach and that Delta should have upgraded them before the Medallionsafter the way they treated them earlier this summer for charging them to check luggage. Her friend replied that if Delta wouldn't have to if the people sitting in first class wouldn't be selfish and offer their seat to them.

They were both talking very loud and it was obvious they wanted F passengers to hear them. I have no problems with the military getting upgraded after all medallions have cleared if there are seats available. In fact if it was wasn't for the fact I had been flying so much and had a long flight ahead of me in Y after a 3 hour ATL layover, I wouldn't have had a problem offering my seat to one of them. Delta did seat two of them in the bulkhead and the other two a couple rows back, leaving the middle seat open in both rows.

The best thing we can do for our military men and women is to bring them home. They can handle sitting in coach.