Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 771772)

Truck hood and windows covered, yard white, black roof now white. Your funny Clampid, you may have stumbled on the best weather forecasting there is.

Its a moderate dusting so far but I thought it was supposed to be rain til this afternoon and then turn to snow?

Originally Posted by DeadHead (Post 771773)

Jumpseating out of JFK a few months back to go overseas, and we ended up waiting in the check-in line at the ticket counter. Must have been about 15-20 people waiting on line with a floating 2-3 representatives helping customers. Basically ended up waiting over an hour until we got helped, which isn't my complaint as a jumpseater. My complaint is watching a First-Class passenger waiting in the Business/FC line for over 30 minutes waiting for someone to call them to the counter. Funny thing is this guy was the ONLY guy in the first class line.

Personally, I find things like this unacceptable, most times these FC passengers pay 5 figure ticket prices on average, especially on long-haul international flights. When these passengers show up to the airport the white gloves should come on immediately. Having a special red carpet on a separate partitioned line that is on most times as long as the regular line doesn't hack it.

I've seen overseas carriers provide curbside check-in counters in a separate part of the terminal with direct access through security to the club lounge. That is why we will lose money hand over fist on the international side of the house unless we straighten these issues out.

I've also seen a flight attendant refuse a FC passenger a bottle of water during the boarding process. Honestly that is not a common scenario, but even if it occurs a few times the end result is turning away a customer in the long run.

Originally Posted by tsquare (Post 771536)

Amazing.... Ya know what? In 1978, I could buy a Big Mac for 65 cents... Nah this argument isn't worth my time. Thanks for the entertainment though... and for speaking verrry slowly.

Originally Posted by ERJ135 (Post 771801)

You wanna here a good one... My father holds the highest status available at Delta, Platinum I guess. He booked a business trip to Brisbane Austrailia. He was suppose to go BOS JFK then hope on Korean and go to souel then to Brisbane. He got to JFK and the agent made a mistake, and they lost his seat. The offered to put him in coach, when he paid 8k for first class. He refused. So there was nothing they could do rebooking him through different cities and airlines. So the plane left with his FC seat open but, because somebody didn't do something right they wouldn't put him on. So they turned him around and sent him back to BOS. He didn't care so much, just did a webcast but, still thats pretty bad.. haha..

Originally Posted by ERJ135 (Post 771801)

You wanna here a good one... My father holds the highest status available at Delta, Platinum I guess. He booked a business trip to Brisbane Austrailia. He was suppose to go BOS JFK then hope on Korean and go to souel then to Brisbane. He got to JFK and the agent made a mistake, and they lost his seat. The offered to put him in coach, when he paid 8k for first class. He refused. So there was nothing they could do rebooking him through different cities and airlines. So the plane left with his FC seat open but, because somebody didn't do something right they wouldn't put him on. So they turned him around and sent him back to BOS. He didn't care so much, just did a webcast but, still thats pretty bad.. haha..