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Post #287,237 by bepatient 6/18/07 3:36:22 PM Reply	Unfortunately there is a large discrepancy between what people want and what can be provided at anything approaching affordable. There is no doubt that the majors could do better...but one of the key reasons people seem happier with southwest is because they EXPECT crappy service from them...but seem to expect more from the others without actually expecting to pay for it. Security. Sucks yes...but at this point I'm back to arriving 1 hr before flight time and making my flights without much of an issue. Thats roughly the same as pre-9/11. My fly/drive is 5 hours...roughly 300 miles. Personally, I think the airlines should charge a min fare based on per seat variable cost. This will mean that the price is at least loosely based on what it costs them to operate. Unfortunately, that would also mean that I would not be able to afford to see my parents on a regular basis, as I wouldn't be able to afford the flights. ATC needs to be overhauled and the airlines need to assist in this by volunteering to reduce frequency, which is essentially what they agreed to do at O'Hare to limit congestion and delays. Summer weather is summer weather, though...and delays from April to October WILL happen, no matter what. [link\|http://weather.unisys.com/images/sat_sfc_map_loop.html\|Somewhere there is a thunderstorm screwing up somebody's flight.] Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}
Post #287,240 by mmoffitt 6/18/07 4:27:19 PM Reply	Re: roughly the same as pre-9/11. Security. Sucks yes...but at this point I'm back to arriving 1 hr before flight time and making my flights without much of an issue. Thats roughly the same as pre-9/11. B.S. You need really broad definitions of "roughly" to make that comment work. I've personally gotten my dad and his bags on an airplane after having arrived at the airport 10 minutes prior to departure. That was pre-9/11. Also, pre-9/11, I could pull 22T up to the gate with a passenger and bags and put them directly on a commercial carrier. That was also pre-9/11. Commercial air travel will never again be "roughly pre-9/11"-esque. bcnu, Mikem It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
Post #287,243 by bepatient 6/18/07 4:33:15 PM Reply	True enough if you have to check bags you aren't going to be able to do that 10 minute sprint anymore. But I arrived with check-on luggage only last week 25 minutes prior to flight and wasn't breathing heavy when I sat down on the plane. I had checked in prior to leaving for the airport and midday there was little in the way of lines at security. Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}
Post #287,314 by mmoffitt 6/19/07 12:46:58 PM Reply	I think that varies with location. If you're standing in line for security screening at FWA or LAX 20 minutes before the flight departs, you don't get on the airplane period. bcnu, Mikem It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
Post #287,317 by boxley 6/19/07 1:04:39 PM Reply	or ATL, the other day the had the queue going outside the terminal with a 2-3 hour wait for screening. thanx, bill Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari? Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 51 years. meep reach me at [link\|mailto:bill.oxley@cox.net\|mailto:bill.oxley@cox.net]
Post #287,371 by bepatient 6/19/07 11:40:43 PM Reply	I got out pretty quick last time and I was running VERY late for the flight. Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}

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