American's regretable decision

hummingbird wrote


I know exactly what you mean...

When I booked a flight from Dubai to London some while ago on
Emirates (not one of the cheaper airlines) I specifically requested
not to be seated next to or close to young children.

But they seated me next to a young Bangladeshi woman with a young son
and before we had even taken off, she told me that her son was unwell
lately and suffering from diarrhoea. She demonstrated this by taking
him to the loo during the meal.

How was this a problem for you? Sometimes even people without medical
problems have to go to the bathroom, including adults. What did you
find the need to described the nationality of woman? A bit of prejudice,
perhaps?

On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 12:25:56 -0800 'Mike Hunt'
posted this onto rec.travel.air:

hummingbird wrote


I know exactly what you mean...

When I booked a flight from Dubai to London some while ago on
Emirates (not one of the cheaper airlines) I specifically requested
not to be seated next to or close to young children.

But they seated me next to a young Bangladeshi woman with a young son
and before we had even taken off, she told me that her son was unwell
lately and suffering from diarrhoea. She demonstrated this by taking
him to the loo during the meal.

How was this a problem for you?

If you can't work that out it's not worth my time trying to explain.


Sometimes even people without medical
problems have to go to the bathroom, including adults. What did you
find the need to described the nationality of woman? A bit of prejudice,
perhaps?

On Mar 3, 12:19 pm, Mike W. wrote:
I've been a frequent flier for a long time. There is a process that has to
take place in the lifetime of all services and products for them to remain
commercially viable. This process centers around making all
products/services/technologies "accessible" (more easily usable,
affordable, "understandable", etc) to "the masses". Talking haircut/MBA
types call it "crossing the chasm" but once you own the company, it's ok to
call it what it really is... "slob enabling". When I began flying in the
80's, I heard then-frequent fliers tell of a time when people dressed up to
travel and everyone was treated as special. In their minds, at that time,
the airlines were catering to "the slobs in the back". To me, it was pretty
nice but it did sound nicer back in the day.

Today, I'm where they were. The make up of the back of the plane is getting
more and more and more like the crew you see at bus station. And now,
American has decided to invite this mixture of NASCAR pit whores, crack
addicts and other mutants with their plastic garbage bag carry-ons,
sub-marginal hygiene, and their bottomless unfiltered supply of exceedingly
obvious observations of the world around them up into OUR head in FC. ****
that. Yea, I know there are good guys back there too but as I hear how this
works, there isn't going to be an air marshall at the curtain deciding who
gets in and who doesn't. So screw them ALL then. It should be just like the
rest of real life works. I don't pay $1800 to hang out at the bus station
at midnight, or to have random samplings of the bus station crowd deposited
on my front lawn. I pay more for FC for a bunch of reasons, like being able
to get more work done (so I can pay disproportionately more taxes to keep
these ****s in the lap of luxury).. and not be entertained by the really
deep remarks of visitors from "back there" about how it's different. We
know it's "different", asswipe. That's why we pay more to be there.

United... I give you a bunch more business than American though until that
came up, I was thinking of jumping ship because frankly, you're sliding in
the FC and service roles MUCH faster than you need to. I swear to God if
you guys start courting the NASCAR crowd up front, I'll just start over and
take my average $1800 (plus 2 to 3 changes of my back end... another
$2-300) per flight someplace else. Please don't even think of going where
American just went.. I have a feeling the guys with the cardboard suitcases
aren't giving you as much dough as we are.

I'm no NASCAR fan but it wouldn't exist if people didn't go there, buy
crap, spend money, and support it. And guess what? I fly on your
plane and ride the bus. If you don't like the method of
transportation invest 8K in getting your VFR/IFR rating and buy your
own plane. Simple as that

james www.futuregringo.com