Biggest Whopper you've heard from a UA Passenger
May 18, 2012, 12:05 am
#33
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I admit whenever I'm wearing full business/dress attire, usually when traveling to/from conferences I get much different looks from both CS and other pass. I'm really just a lowly grad student (not high on the income braket) but all my research is in Asia so I fly a lot of international long hauls and maintain low level status. Over the past five years I have become quite an aviation buff/snobb I admit as well but during most of my trips I tend to dress much more casually and don't get the same treatment.
Then again there was the time when F Saver was cheaper than C Standard, so it made sense to buy F Saver awards on 767-300 (new config) for my 2-yr-old and me. That definitely got some looks during boarding.
May 18, 2012, 12:12 am
#34
Join Date: Apr 2012
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This still happens. A couple weeks ago I was going EUG-SFO for a weekend meeting and booked close in. The route was on a CR7 so it had F, and in fact there were no Y saver awards available on the outbound flight but there were F savers at the same rate as Y standards, so I just booked the F saver. Why anyone would use the same number of miles for a Y versus F seat would baffle me. Of course if there had been Y savers I would have taken them and hoped for E+ at t-24.
May 18, 2012, 12:27 am
#35
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While I don't agree with the doctor this "marking" of records and "grading" of customers is just another example of a strategy that paints the customer as the enemy of the seller of the service. How can that be a healthy strategy?
May 18, 2012, 12:38 am
#36
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Back in college I worked at a fast food joint near the campus. There was an older guy, apparently faculty or staff, who came by regularly and always ordered the cheapest sandwich on the menu, then requested a bunch of otherwise "free" extra ingredients so that it would have the same contents as a more expensive sandwich. Newbies on the register would ring him up accordingly, while anyone who had been there for more than a month or so would simply tell him to either pay the full price or go get a life. The best comeback I heard from a co-worker was "Buddy, you can't have it your way -- this ain't Burger King!"
May 18, 2012, 1:58 am
#37
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It can be healthy when you have frequent customers who are pathological.
Back in college I worked at a fast food joint near the campus. There was an older guy, apparently faculty or staff, who came by regularly and always ordered the cheapest sandwich on the menu, then requested a bunch of otherwise "free" extra ingredients so that it would have the same contents as a more expensive sandwich. Newbies on the register would ring him up accordingly, while anyone who had been there for more than a month or so would simply tell him to either pay the full price or go get a life. The best comeback I heard from a co-worker was "Buddy, you can't have it your way -- this ain't Burger King!"
Back in college I worked at a fast food joint near the campus. There was an older guy, apparently faculty or staff, who came by regularly and always ordered the cheapest sandwich on the menu, then requested a bunch of otherwise "free" extra ingredients so that it would have the same contents as a more expensive sandwich. Newbies on the register would ring him up accordingly, while anyone who had been there for more than a month or so would simply tell him to either pay the full price or go get a life. The best comeback I heard from a co-worker was "Buddy, you can't have it your way -- this ain't Burger King!"
May 18, 2012, 2:25 am
#38
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Best line I ever heard from a pax (while standing in the F cabin of a 744, during boarding w glass of Champaigne in hand. All pax were boarding thru door 1. A woman gets on holding her 6 or 7 year old daughter, she says to the little girl "Don't forget, if you marry well you'll be sitting here one day" and headed off to Y.
Best line I ever heard from a pax (while standing in the F cabin of a 744, during boarding w glass of Champaigne in hand. All pax were boarding thru door 1. A woman gets on holding her 6 or 7 year old daughter, she says to the little girl "Don't forget, if you marry well you'll be sitting here one day" and headed off to Y.
May 18, 2012, 5:28 am
#39
Join Date: May 2011
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These are from a friend/former roommate who is an E145 First Officer for a UAX carrier...
At a ground load gate, a dumb blonde boards and says, "Oh...my...gawd...whare's the rest of the playane?"
At a ground load gate in DEN, he did his walk around and got back to the air stairs during bording. An idiot asks him if it's a propeller plane. He slowly looks over to the turbojet on the tail, slowly looks back at the idiot, and walks away.
After an aborted landing from windshear, they're able to land on the second attempt but arrive a few minutes late. Some douche sticks his head in the cockpit and says, "Thanks for [...] the landing, now I'm going to miss my connection."
At a ground load gate, a dumb blonde boards and says, "Oh...my...gawd...whare's the rest of the playane?"
At a ground load gate in DEN, he did his walk around and got back to the air stairs during bording. An idiot asks him if it's a propeller plane. He slowly looks over to the turbojet on the tail, slowly looks back at the idiot, and walks away.
After an aborted landing from windshear, they're able to land on the second attempt but arrive a few minutes late. Some douche sticks his head in the cockpit and says, "Thanks for [...] the landing, now I'm going to miss my connection."
Last edited by iluv2fly; May 18, 2012 at 7:30 am Reason: per policy
May 18, 2012, 9:45 am
#40
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Full flight - Sun night - Long standby list
Passenger: "What do you MEAN you don't find my reservatoin? I HAVE to get on this flight for my grandmother's funeral tomorrow!
Agent: When did you make the reservation sir?
Passenger: Three weeks ago!!
Agent: When did you make the reservation sir?
Passenger: Three weeks ago!!