Can't Please 'Em!

...people want stuff for free. My girl friend's uncle is CFO of a major international hotel chain, and it is the same story. Everywhere in the service industry you get people who are totally willing to bitch about not getting upgraded, not getting perks, not getting this or that...but when it comes to time to shell out the bucks to pay for what they want, they refuse. That said though, if that happened to me and I had paid for the premium cabin, for example, I would have been pretty irritated and demanded some sort of voucher or something. At the end of the day, you gotta pay for what you want...stop whining!
 
MikeD said:
Throw Sunny's dumb ass in the back of a C-123 with ramp open, on a low-level to an LZ drop or LAPES, then we'll see how much he bitches about the 767-300ER and it's extremely-minor problems that it was having.

Nitwit.
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Buisness Class seat on a LAPES pallet, with a Sheridan two seconds prior.
 
zmiller4 said:
150 years ago the voyage would have taken 3 months and half the passengers would have died of scurvy.
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Uphill, rowing against the gulfstream, while the rats gnawed on the dry, calloused flesh of his heels and he would have liked it. . . . cause it was all we had!!!! :D
 
Thats why I fly Lufthansa, it only takes 100,000 miles a year to become a Senator (highest ranking) and it comes with 2 free upgrades.
 
My guess is that Delta knows that if they upgraded passengers every time there was a broken headphone jack, suddenly there would be a dozen new broken headphone jacks on each flight.
 
I don't get it. Why, for the love of Pete, was Sonny more concerned with the blasted jacks than how much Gran Marnier was onboard? What a neophyte! In 11 hours I drank a BA flight dry and partook in 3 FA parties.
 
You guys need to stop concentrating on the tree and start looking at the forest. This is just one part of the overall systematic blackmail of the foreign carriers flying I/O of Nigeria. If you read the local Nigerian letters to the editors, they are full of claims of all sorts of outrageous behavior towards Nigerian Nationals. It's just a ploy by the government to incite the population behind them.
 
Cptnchia said:
He said he was a platinum medallion, but then stated he flew 160,000 miles a year. Most platinums who get upgraded are in the 500,000 to 1,000,000 miles a year club.
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1,000,000 miles per year? That's a hellva lot of flying - you'd have to fly transatlantic every other day...if you count only the miles flown which is the only way to get into DL's MM.
 
SeanD said:
I dont think it would be fair to the other passengers to perform a seat upgrade while in-flight. I doubt he was the only Delta Sky Miles card holder on the flight with a lot miles racked up. If he really cared about securing a seat in business class he would have asked the gate agent before boarding the flight or perhaps have paid an additional cost for a better seat. I dont see him having a legitimate arguement. It is what it is. An American carrrier flight overseas. You want comfort etc? Purchase a $2000 + ticket on another carrier (non-US) and stop your whinning.
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In-flight upgardes are happening everyday. I've been on a lot of flights lately where the FAs upgrade military. I've even heard them ask PAX "Are you military?" Based on the backpack they are carrying.

I think it's a small token and hardly unfair - but that's just me.
 
Ramsey said:
In-flight upgardes are happening everyday. I've been on a lot of flights lately where the FAs upgrade military. I've even heard them ask PAX "Are you military?" Based on the backpack they are carrying.

I think it's a small token and hardly unfair - but that's just me.
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Apples and oranges man. You dont see military folks complaining about where they are sitting and demanding a better seat because of who they are or where they were. A courtesy is a courtesy. ;)
 
Cptnchia said:
You guys need to stop concentrating on the tree and start looking at the forest. This is just one part of the overall systematic blackmail of the foreign carriers flying I/O of Nigeria. If you read the local Nigerian letters to the editors, they are full of claims of all sorts of outrageous behavior towards Nigerian Nationals. It's just a ploy by the government to incite the population behind them.
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I was waiting for someone to chime in with something like this.

Exactly right, it's not as much about the condition of the headset jack in this article as much as it's about Nigeria and the usual nonsense.

A friend of mine lives in Lagos.

Maybe they could clean the dead bodies off the sides of the roads in Lagos more often before they demand a 777LR for their 11 hour flight to ATL.
 
One flight over the pole in a KC-135 with an innattentive boom operator and that kind fellow would never set the bar at his standards again.
 
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