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ASAPI posted:I am also noticing that the airport that you fly from and to is more important now. Never fly in/out of DEN after like noon in the summer. I just flat out wouldn't make a connection here during the summer either. I'm risking it flying in around 3 in the afternoon in a couple weeks.
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I haven't flown since getting off the plane home from Iraq in 2005 and I'm not planning on doing it again, ever. Just kinda feel like I ran that line of luck as far as it can go after a bunch of military flights. Besides, I can smoke on long drives.
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Really speaks to the folly of man that humanity could realize its most ancient dream that inspired artists and troubadours for thousands of years and then within a single lifetime make it such a lovely experience that nobody wants to do it anymore
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Jul 28, 2022 17:22
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Fly air new zealand you clowns
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Jul 28, 2022 17:24
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I still like a flight, but I'd rather land somewhere big and then drive 3-4 hours than chance some little airport not to have a maintenance or crew shortfall problem.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Fly air new zealand you clowns Are you gonna sponsor my citizenship?
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I've flown United and Sotuhwest extensively recently and not really had any problems. Then again I fly out of Houston which are main hubs for both. Connection? What's that, never heard of it  Meanwhile the one single one-way flight I tried to book on American got canceled.
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Discussion Quorum posted:I've flown United and Sotuhwest extensively recently and not really had any problems. Then again I fly out of Houston which are main hubs for both. Connection? What's that, never heard of it The cost of that is that you're in or around Houston. I'd take the higher chance at delays and other problems.
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Diarrhea Elemental posted:The cost of that is that you're in or around Houston. I'd take the higher chance at delays and other problems. Great comment/avatar combo.
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Jul 28, 2022 18:17
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I flew air France as my first foreign airline experience and it was like having a sleep over at a rich friend's house. Only then did I realize I how I could be living To those who have flown on Spirit and Ryanair, how do the budget airlines compare?
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The quickest way to turn a billion into a million is to start an airline. Except the US is a captive market due to ownership regulations and terminal slots. Competition is limited and the product is trash. Virgin is the case study.
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Jul 28, 2022 18:28
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Arcella posted:My last few Southwest trips were luckily uneventful except for weather delays. We're going to Europe in October on Lufthansa and I'm pumped. Never flown on a non-US airline before. And it's on a 747 which I've always wanted to be on. I just did LAX MUC BUD on a united coded flight on Lufthansa. Had a 24 hour layover in MUC on my return. Check in LAX and BUD was loving stupid long. LAX was 2 hours 20 mins. I go to BUD at 345am, and still have probably 30 people in front of me. In MUC, I was checked in, bags dropped and through security on a Sunday morning in 15 minutes. I felt like I won life. The LAX MUC flight was 12 hours long. Nice staff, but they didn't really enforce the German mask mandate. Meals were mediocre, wine good, only canned Becks beer (shudder). Boarding was chaos, but they have those self boarding lanes. A secret is to slide in at the end of the group 1. The AI gates won't stop you from boarding if you're not in the currently boarding group.  If your flight is through their MUC hub, I highly recommend a long or overnight layover. They have a Lufthansa bus that goes to the main Munich train station for only 17 euros.
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Or grab a €9 ticket and ride all public transit (except intercity trains) as much as you want. There's a train station at MUC and the S1 and S8 lines go the main station. Go to Augustiner Bräustuben, order the Schweinshaxe and a Ruß'n Maß. Enjoy to the fullest. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Jul 28, 2022 |
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But I think the 9 euro ticket ends in August?
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A.o.D. posted:Is that how Dial-a-Doc works? I just figured that they were unqualified phone counsellors that would either tell you that you're not really sick that'll be 75 dollars please, or You need to go to our affiliated clinic that'll be 75 dollars please, or you need to go to the emergency room that'll be 75 dollars please. We’ve had good experiences the two times we’ve used it and both times talked to a real doctor. First was for a bug bite and within an hour had the needed prescription on hand. Second was for a sick baby and got the info we needed. Wouldn’t replace a primary physician but when you need help for a quick question or on a weekend it worked great. Airlines chat, a relative was a pilot for a long time with AA and when he retired took a lump sum rather than trust them to administer his pension, as while on paper it was more money he didn’t trust them not to go bankrupt.
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Right, it does. I missed the October part. Still, I would expect the S-Bahn ticket to be cheaper than the LH-Bus. E: Yeah it's €12,30. E2: But everything is relative, we paid €1K total for two people from Copenhagen to Munich and back. A-yup.
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GOOGLE TOWER SEVEN JET FUEL CAN'T MELT STEEL BEAMS THEY STOLE THE ELECTION https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1552716060687847425?t=Jmd9hmz7dHD5eMOukzrsYQ&s=19 this is what peak performance looks like (poo poo)
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facialimpediment posted:GOOGLE TOWER SEVEN Ahh. Playing the hits today.
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House GOP and a pile of Republican Senators decided to whip against the CHIPS Act today because they're mad at Manchin, didn't matter. Pelosi didn't lose a single vote and gained 24 Republicans too, they just held off until Ds delivered the 218 needed. https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1552733039670722565?t=rfd8EPuG10HCV0jqmZKKGA&s=19 $50B in incentives inbound to make more semiconductors in-country.
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Cugel the Clever posted:lol, both "boarding is chaos" and "why yes, I actively contributed to the chaos". Kicking queue jumpers off the flight while still sending their bags to the destination would be a good start to making the experience less poo poo. I appreciate your edginess and snark, but Lufthansa goes from "first/business/frequent flyer class boarding" right to everyone else. There are no boarding groups after group 1.
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facialimpediment posted:House GOP and a pile of Republican Senators decided to whip against the CHIPS Act today because they're mad at Manchin, didn't matter. Pelosi didn't lose a single vote and gained 24 Republicans too, they just held off until Ds delivered the 218 needed. I like this "active" Democrat party. The real question is, who or what lit the fire under them to actually motivate them to do... well... anything?
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ASAPI posted:I like this "active" Democrat party. The real question is, who or what lit the fire under them to actually motivate them to do... well... anything? Its July, people might remember stuff in November. They won't.
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ASAPI posted:I like this "active" Democrat party. The real question is, who or what lit the fire under them to actually motivate them to do... well... anything? On the chips act stuff - last/this year's chip shortage on ~~everything~~, plus China making noises about loving with Taiwan - where a shitload of chips are made. Also the big tech companies saying "hey, we'd like to make chip factories and research facilities in [target district x], but the math doesn't work and we'll have to go to China". On the Provisional IRA - there were some legislative time bombs involved (ACA subsidy expiration, Coal Black Lung pay-for expired), plus the election. Nothing gets Congress to actually Do Things like a legislative time bomb in an election year. facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Jul 28, 2022 |
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Maybe building a big solar/wind field next to that samsung plant in Texas with some fuckoff huge batteries would be a good start for this chips poo poo. Nevermind that texas is probably a lovely place for a chip factory, samsung picked it (probably because of tax breaks), and we can't really afford for windmills to stop working lol (or natgas pumps freezing) putting the plant into a blackout. Those places have very strict shutdown procedures and relying on the texas grid is a massive lmao if that's the continuing plan. But we're also probably going to wind up with crypto miners somehow getting a handout from this too. Somehow.
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Evil SpongeBob posted:Lufthansa I specifically chose the non-united flights. We’re going through the Frankfurt hub from Houston and then to Copenhagen. I’d rather not fly out of IAH since Hobby is much closer but 🤷♂️
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facialimpediment posted:
I am not sure if you did this on purpose but it's quite magnificent. 
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Also from someone who used to commute monthly to Australia from the UK for a living, airlines ranking; Any Far Eastern > Any Middle Eastern >>>> Any European National >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Any US >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Any Euro budget >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Any ex-sov bloc >>>>>>>> RyanAir
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We just gave a giant welfare package to an industry making money hand over fist and you dipshits are high fiving over it lmao
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Sacrist65 posted:Totally not sponsored buzzfeed article: Oh its classist to accurately state that Spirit is the worst airline I've had the misfortune of flying with, ever, and I will never do so again? gently caress that, they suck.
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Burt posted:I am not sure if you did this on purpose but it's quite magnificent. stole it from Twitter like everything else https://twitter.com/TangoPapa_/status/1552638864627535877?t=XifCzOMglC9iL0GIPUQi1w&s=19 https://twitter.com/alexburnsNYT/status/1552751449813225473?t=q7COaLG9RfQ3aVFFFPB-ng&s=19 https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/1552754186072326144?t=AddH3soRz9pFF3plUFkXow&s=19 *loser game show noise* facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Jul 28, 2022 |
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facialimpediment posted:House GOP and a pile of Republican Senators decided to whip against the CHIPS Act today because they're mad at Manchin, didn't matter. Pelosi didn't lose a single vote and gained 24 Republicans too, they just held off until Ds delivered the 218 needed. Biden is gonna veto it since the republicans went against their leadership. Now is not the time to play partisan politics jack! Holy poo poo they literally called their trap the TRAP.
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A friend worked for an aerospace company designing passenger seats. He said they ranged from luxury sleeping pods down to pretty much chicken wire with a seatbelt that met minimal FAA requirements. Ryanair had checked into that as an option.
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How's Air Canada? I'll be heading from Brussels to Vancouver via Montreal next week for work. We booked via Lufthansa but it'll be Air Canada operated flights. Also Lufthansa have been having issues recently with crew strikes and a large amount cancelations.
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The way I've heard it explained, a business can make a ton of money: 1) selling/leasing/maintaining aircraft (and in particular engines) or 2) renting out landing & gating slots at airports, and almost impossible to make a cent operating an actual airline since the other two will adjust their fees accordingly to siphon off any margin you might accumulate. Competing airlines are always just going to be crabs in a bucket racing to the bottom in terms of service trying to eke out as much excess value they can to waste on stock buy-backs while Boeing/Airbus/GE/P&W and the lease-holders of ATL/DFW/DEN/ORD/... make off like bandits. So in other words, America needs to get on the same wavelength as the rest of the world and
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Burt posted:Also from someone who used to commute monthly to Australia from the UK for a living, airlines ranking; What counts as "Far Eastern" JAL, Korean Air, etc?
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Where do african airlines fall on that scale? Assuming above soviet era?
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Where do african airlines fall on that scale? Assuming above soviet era? If you're flying on an Africa-based airline, fly South Africa, Ethiopian Airlines, or Kenya Airways. I think Kenya and South Africa are merging or partnering their airlines in the future?
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