Hmmm. Sounds very reminiscent of my recent soujourn back to Boston from
Vegas. TED got me from Vegas to Denver OK but United had to try three
different aircraft to get out of Denver. The first one was sitting at
the gate when I got there with a maintenance crew obviously in animated
discussion obout the brakes on the left wheel. They announced that they
were going to bring out a different aircraft but shortly afterward
announced it had some sort of unspecified problem and they were going to
take the aircraft for a short test flight. Sometime later they
announced that that aircraft was going to be replaced by another.
This whole process took about three hours and got me back to Boston well
after most of the airport was closed and the shuttle buses (honoring my
prepaid ticket) had stopped running to the satellite parking lots. It
took a $50 cab ride at 2 am (with a drunk or stoned cabbie) to get the
10-12 miles back to my car.
As soon as I got out of the cab I called the local cops to try and
intercept him before he could get back on the interstate back to Boston.
Argghhh! That's why I said Jet Blue was looking like the right choice.
Chuck Norcutt
Rob Harrison wrote:
> Sorry, didn't mean to be so cryptic. According to my stewardess
> friend, the "reorganization" has not gone well for the employees--
> ground and flight crews. Maintenance has been out-sourced to
> Singapore. A mechanic friend of hers who had been sent there to
> inspect the work of the new maintenance crews was brought back home
> because he refused to sign off on something like 400 still-
> outstanding items from his inspection. I'm sure none of them were
> life-threatening, but could have been annoying, like non-functional
> headphones or some such. Last time I flew Northwest on the way home
> from Cleveland I got bumped from two different flights on the same
> day because of mechanical problems. Ended up spending a night in
> Detroit because we missed the last flight out from Detroit to
> Seattle, which meant I missed half of a conference at which I was
> supposed to be speaking, back in Seattle. What was supposed to be a 9-
> hour transit took 30. Very frustrating.
>
> The one bonus was that I got to listen to a whole group of people
> doing Motown kareoke at the Best Western near the airport. Maybe
> there's a theme here.....
>
> Rob in Seattle
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:49 PM, ScottGee1 wrote:
>
>
>>Yikes! I'm *almost* afraid to ask what you mean by that.
>>
>>Detroit is Northwest's primary hub so they're the Big Dog here. My
>>other choice is AirTran unless I want to make stops.
>>
>>Thanks!/ScottGee1
>>
>>
>>On 1/23/06, Rob Harrison <robhar@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>Don't fly Northwest.
>>>
>>>A good friend of mine is a stewardess, and I've heard some pretty
>>>scary tales.
>>>
>>>Rob in Seattle
>
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