Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!ernie!wrf From: wrf@ernie.BERKELEY.EDU (W. Randolph Franklin) Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.jokes Subject: Re: Airline Fares - Fine Print Message-ID: <10964@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 00:31:20 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.10964 Posted: Wed Nov 13 00:31:20 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Nov-85 01:11:54 EST References: <1103@mtuxo.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: wrf@ernie.UUCP (W. Randolph Franklin) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 36 Xref: watmath net.consumers:3362 net.jokes:14888 Summary: Problems with Peoples Express and Continental In article <1103@mtuxo.UUCP> btb@mtuxo.UUCP (Bruce Burger) writes: > > (Say what you want about People Express, at least their >goal is to fly you for their fares, not exclude you from them.) > Not always true: On Sept 10, 1985 I flew from Albany NY to Newark on the 6:30 flight that because of delays in Newark left Albany around 9:30. Peoples has 3 flights each evening, priced, in order, low, high, low, and scheduled to leave at about 4:30, 6:30 and 9:30. Now the flight I was on was officially the high fare flight even though it was leaving at the scheduled time for the low fare flight. A Peoples employee even made the announcement before the flight left that even though the flight was leaving at the cheap time it was the expensive flight and anyone who didn't like it should get off. (The plane was half empty - no capacity problem.) Talk about user friendliness. They compounded it in Newark by letting an outgoing flight leave less than 20 minutes before two dozen people from delayed incoming Peoples flights arrived at the departure gate. Most airlines at least support their own connections. Of course, other airlines aren't perfect either. I was on a Continental flight from Newark to Denver in December 1984 that had to make an unscheduled stop in Kansas City because it didn't have enough fuel on board. Anyone who therefore missed a connection in Denver had to foot the bill himself. TV network news later reported that the same flight on other dates had scraped the end of the runway on takeoff at least twice. Wm. Randolph Franklin, UC Berkeley, Arpanet: wrf@ernie.Berkeley.EDU USPS: Computer Science Div., 543 Evans, University of California, Berkeley CA, 94720, USA 415-642-9955