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FatFreeGoodness · 10-20-2005, 06:35 AM

Those of you old enough to remember Eastern know will verify is it’s worst moment US Air only vaguely resembles the horror that was Eastern.
I have a letter from them thanking me for averaging 10,000 miles a week for two years straight.
I have more airline stories than you can even imagine.

Once we were diverted 50 miles to an alternate airport for bad weather This airport happened to be my final destination. Would they let me off the plane? No. We waited on the plane for two hours. When the fuel got low, they turned off the engines and we waited another four hours with no AC, in Alabama in August. After six hours we refueled and flew to the original city, where I was told I had missed my connecting flight and would have to spend the night. The next flight was at 5:45 in the morning , just five hours from now. Rental car not an option, closed for the night.
Hardly worth getting a taxi to a motel, checking in, then immediately checking out, right?
So I waited at the airport. The next morning the flight was delayed for thirty minutes. And thirty minutes more. Repeat thirty minute delays until noon. Then fly back to the same airport I sat in for six hours the day before.
Thanks for flying Eastern!

Random thought: Have you ever wondered why it is that every speaker on a passenger jet sounds much worse than the crappiest 50-cent speaker ever sold by Radio Shack, while the airline brags about their superb maintenance program?
And why is it that the radio used by the pilot / tower has worse quality sound than a disposable cell phone from Wal Mart?
Could it be that the sound quality is excellent, and the pilot really sounds like that?

10-20-2005, 06:35 AM	#21 (permalink)
FatFreeGoodness Tilted	Those of you old enough to remember Eastern know will verify is it’s worst moment US Air only vaguely resembles the horror that was Eastern. I have a letter from them thanking me for averaging 10,000 miles a week for two years straight. I have more airline stories than you can even imagine. Once we were diverted 50 miles to an alternate airport for bad weather This airport happened to be my final destination. Would they let me off the plane? No. We waited on the plane for two hours. When the fuel got low, they turned off the engines and we waited another four hours with no AC, in Alabama in August. After six hours we refueled and flew to the original city, where I was told I had missed my connecting flight and would have to spend the night. The next flight was at 5:45 in the morning , just five hours from now. Rental car not an option, closed for the night. Hardly worth getting a taxi to a motel, checking in, then immediately checking out, right? So I waited at the airport. The next morning the flight was delayed for thirty minutes. And thirty minutes more. Repeat thirty minute delays until noon. Then fly back to the same airport I sat in for six hours the day before. Thanks for flying Eastern! Random thought: Have you ever wondered why it is that every speaker on a passenger jet sounds much worse than the crappiest 50-cent speaker ever sold by Radio Shack, while the airline brags about their superb maintenance program? And why is it that the radio used by the pilot / tower has worse quality sound than a disposable cell phone from Wal Mart? Could it be that the sound quality is excellent, and the pilot really sounds like that?