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From: wrf@ernie.BERKELEY.EDU (W. Randolph Franklin)
Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.jokes
Subject: Re: Airline Fares - Fine Print
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Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 00:31:20 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 13 00:31:20 1985
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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,  
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