for flyin’ out loud
full disclosure, even years later, i’m still bitter about the time i spent on planes –damn you phl, ord, and ual. here’s the latest news on an industry that is so screwed up, you’d actually wish britney spears was your flight attendant–at least you’d be entertained.:
pockets empty
- the geniuses at spirit air are charging $45 bones for carry-on items (that’s items that’s are stored in the overhead bin). passengers can keep $15 if they pay for the carry-on online. what’s more scary is that airline experts think that this may catch on.
dignity deflation
- the um, ‘people’ at ryanair are going ahead with their plans to charge people for using the loo. it’ll cost about a buck 40 to ‘go’ or, in some cases ‘do it.’ the airline says they’re making the change so that they can remove some toilets and add some more seats to the plane.
- the feds will put strict fines on airlines that keep people sitting on tarmacs for more than hours and refuse to give them food and water after 2 hours. at least they’ll be one less airline that can do this (see next story).
vacation-killers
- british airways employees put their strike on hold as did the pilots at lufthansa. unfortunately the american workers got wind of it and are weighing their options.
inbreeding
- the worst airline ever (united airlines) is trying to merge with another one. apparently they’re deep in merger talks. even more unbelievable, when the announcement hit the airways, united’s stock price was up to $20 bucks.
i’m beginning to think obama administration has something about that high speed rail plan i’ve called dumb.
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I second that emotion: United sucks, and musician David Carroll stuck it to ‘em, (united pleaded uncle but too late) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Breaks_Guitars