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The Worst Flight in America
Some airline flights are just losers—day after day, they just can't get to their destination on time. And the worst flight of all? (finance.yahoo.com) Daha Fazlası...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
used to fly out of Newark - Friday 5 PM.... took US Air, missed connection at Pittsburgh, took United, missed , connection in ORD, took American, missed connection at DFW, tried old Continental A300, stayed the night in Denver..... that was almost 20 years ago.... guess some things never change... need new runway 1500+ feet from the existing ones so can have simultaneous approaches, departures, but the real solution is to bar anything less than 100 passenger planes to reduce frequencies.... controllers hands are tied with separation standards...
Didn't even have to read the article to know United would be involved in the story.
You know the record. You know the fees. Adapt or take another route. Get over yourself.....or vote the pinheads out. We got what we allowed. Please start with his Mitchness.
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Fortunately I fly out of Canada - we don't have many of the same restrictions down there.
The weather and the FAA are just talking points used as a crutch to support the real problem with Newark. The Port Authority. The whole bad attitude of New Yorkers and their condescending regard for New Jersey leads to delays. Add to the mix the adversarial relationship between the Port Authority and the public unions and there is a rigid atmosphere of using airlines and passengers to beat each other over the head.
They can't even get the temperature right. It is either freezing or roasting because of the economic objectives of the Port Authority. They are too stingy with the heat and air conditioning.
The main problem there is no one cares to make things work. They are so busy carving out fiefdoms that there is no ability to get the work done in a timely manner. There are also hundreds of people that are the air transport equivalent of a fireman on an electric locomotive.
While I agree that "keep 'em flying" is a good motto, contract carriers like Sky West would do well to schedule a RJ to be in Kentucky (where Cincinnati parks its planes) to render delays of the scheduled aircraft moot. That is what would help passengers instead of the current system that has managers deciding who will suffer the least.
They can't even get the temperature right. It is either freezing or roasting because of the economic objectives of the Port Authority. They are too stingy with the heat and air conditioning.
The main problem there is no one cares to make things work. They are so busy carving out fiefdoms that there is no ability to get the work done in a timely manner. There are also hundreds of people that are the air transport equivalent of a fireman on an electric locomotive.
While I agree that "keep 'em flying" is a good motto, contract carriers like Sky West would do well to schedule a RJ to be in Kentucky (where Cincinnati parks its planes) to render delays of the scheduled aircraft moot. That is what would help passengers instead of the current system that has managers deciding who will suffer the least.