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**Jay Furr** · October 1st, 2008, 02:09 PM posted to rec.sport.football.college,rec.travel.air

James Gibson wrote in news:6553a375-bb06-435b-
:

On Sep 30, 10:22ÿam, Jay Furr wrote:

See, passengers flying for personal/vacation purposes *always* book
the cheapest fare, no matter that the connection time between flight A
and flight B is seven and a half minutes and you have to switch
terminals, or what. ÿ This is what leads to a lot of the situations in
which people claim that the airlines screwed them and caused them to
miss their flight and lose their luggage and stuff -- THEY accepted
the insane connection time that the website kicked out, and THEY
therefore put the airline in a situation where a slight delay on
flight A made it impossible to catch flight B or get their bags to
flight B.

Back in 2005, United managed to lose my baggage on a *one-leg* flight
from Albany to Dulles in *both* directions. So don't give me this
nonsense that they lost it because I chose insane connection times.

RIF.

I said "A lot of the situations". Not all.

But speaking as someone who travels a lot, I read a *lot* of the columns
written by journalists who cover the travel industry and they agree -- the
desire to seek the lowest possible fare no matter what is often what leads
to the subsequent travel nightmares.

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