Airlines are desperate again!

How do I know? I tried something and found out!

A trip to Hawaii was advertised as a real bargain---about $1500 for plane ticket and seven days at a Waikiki Beach Hilton.

I asked for a firm quote for a week in August for the plane and seven nights stay for two.

Well, of course there were "adds" for various fees to begin with but the real kicker was when I checked the flight schedule!

There were three plane changes with layovers to get to Honolulu (one on another Island first.)
Then coming back was the same thing---three changes with layovers.

Now to get out of all of the changes, the bill suddenly becomes $4500 for two.
Do these people stay up all night figuring out how to false advertise?

Supposedly, the revenue problem (I guess that is the problem) is being caused ny the current "recession,"
Yet, all planes are currently full when they fly! Ticket prices are down due to fuel costs being one-half of 2008, but there still is something in there like in Denmark--that stinks!

Is this yet a management problem like the auto companies, the Insurance companies, the Banks, and our Manufacturing companies?
How did we get so dumb over and over in selecting managers? Are wqe mis-training managers for the last 40 years or so?
Does any of them work as apprentices in various functions of the company so that they know the business?
Or, are they all salesmen and accountants
who have rooted out the Engineers and Manufacturing and Operations Managers?

They sure hire and promote unworthy people.
Just compare the two pilots who crashed recently with ice on the wings and their salary, with two other pilots who fly to London all of the time and their salary and training.
Both sets are supposed to be qualified as well as the other for their plane and circumstances!!!!

Compare 225,000 with 30,000.
Compare numbers of passengers!

Should I avoid short flights?
I'm not suggesting cutting the 225,000 necessarily, but surely any pilot with passengers has to worth more than an unskilled construction worker or a school janitor.

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So Bonker$,
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Submitted by Cyclist on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 12:08pm.

You don't like flying to Honolulu via Phoinex and Kona. Here's a deal for you - $1650 (2X) RT airfare (non stop ATL -HNL) and 7 days at the Aston Waikiki Beach Hotel. What do you say?
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Submitted by Bonkers on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 1:38pm.

Thanks for the tip but I'm going to Vegas.
I weill drive a rented Prius, have coupons for rent and gas, and eat free there.

Would you like to see the airlines be bailed out? Or just let them "happen."

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No Bonker$,
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Submitted by Cyclist on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 2:26pm.

I suspect we'll see Spoils Conference II. I'm sure you remember the first conference.
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I'm willing to chip in if we could convince him to buy a
Submitted by MYTMITE on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 1:09pm.

one way ticket and lose this blog site. I am sure after a short period of time the people in Hawaii would be chipping in to buy him a return ticket--shucks!

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MyTstingy
Submitted by Bonkers on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 1:43pm.

Would you contribute more than you always and ever put in the boot buckets? Otherwise, it wouldn't be of much value.
A virgin milk goat would be helpful!

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Bonkers, when and if you were ever worth one tenth of any of
Submitted by MYTMITE on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 2:06pm.

those gentlemen with a boot I might consider. As for the virgin milk goat--I doubt if you would know what to do with any virgin much less a goat. Why don't you just take a slow boat to China, instead? As much as you are against everything maybe you could become the latest man without a country and be put on a boat that went to nowhere. They could let you write and write but just never bother to mail whatever you had written. You would be able to spew your own special brand of venom and no one would have to read it. It would be a happier place for all.

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Submitted by hutch866 on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 12:29pm.

The reason no one would offer him nonstop at a reasonable price, was they had to compensate the other passengers, who being cooped up for hours on end with our Bonker$ needed the money for alcohol to avoid the mass suicides that surely would have resulted, or needed the chance to get off the plane for awhile and hold a lottery to choose his next seatmate, a lottery no one wanted to win.

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hutch: planes
Submitted by Bonkers on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 1:54pm.

The other planes had defective tubes indicating speed and the automatic pilots went crazy and crashed them before they could get there and flick it off. Also others had wings with inadequate heaters for ice, and had teenage co-pilots and test failers, so it was partially my fault for refusing to fly with the other 200 passengers!

They are not letting Sulley fly yet--not until he finshes his book. Palin is helping him in order to learn the fundamentals of how a book is written. (one word after another and sixth graders must understand a paragraph meaning.)

No, I don't do alcohol as a crutch. Even cows learned long ago not to eat loco weed or sour mash!

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Submitted by hutch866 on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 3:52pm.

To use your own words "you just don't get it", the booze is for the people who have to put up with your intolerable BS, not for you.

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Jeez Bonker$,
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Submitted by Cyclist on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 2:38pm.

Show some respect, it's Captain Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger III to you. "Sulley" was a character in the movie "Monsters Inc".
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