Hell--some ghastly BEAST

[iceire]

My son is flying next month from Metlakatla to New York,he was suppose to get off the island on the 19th of Dec but got snowed in but my rant is the AK Airlines wanted proof that it was the weather,well helloooooooo,bush plane couldn't land and the seiners were not risking their lives or the boats to get my son plus others that were on the same flight so I got charged a fee of $79.00 to get him here next month,me thinks the airline should have kept my sons ticket open and locked on the price I paid ($939.00) but nae they wanted more money,I just hope the weather is decent Feb 13th which is when he leaves.

[cobolt]

What sort of proof did AK A want you to produce regarding the weather? I mean, they have access and monitor NWS/NOAA weather obs like most of aviation. Couldn't they pull up the archives and see that? Well probably not the phone/counter people, so maybe we're asking too much here. You can well bet if THEIR flights were affected by localized weather, you'd know about it. AK A has the monopoly on the SE and they take advantage of it.

[MrHall]

Yeah, they take away your wine, but they don't get to drink it. Turns out some bozo decided to purposfully spike his bottle with cyanide, thinking he'd kill him some TSA people after hours. Tox got it though, now all liquids go into the HAZ MAT containers. Now for $24k a year, you'd think the job would offer nice benefits, right? How about having a permanent 17 person crew per shift working Juneau airport when the MIMIMUM number is supposed to be 30 something? So now they've got people working 12 hour shifts (OK 11 hour shifts minus meal break) and the agents on the front line not only get to be cussed, sneered and yelled at by people who keep saying they would never be treated this way in the United States (WTF?) but also keep wondering week to week whether some new director will re-write those rules so firmly written in Jello, and hand them down out of the blue.

I pity those who have this particular job. Pity and applaud because I know I wouldn't be able to stand so much back-biting, inconsistent bull.

[Metlakatla]

Yeah, they take away your wine, but they don't get to drink it. Turns out some bozo decided to purposfully spike his bottle with cyanide, thinking he'd kill him some TSA people after hours.

That's a pretty messed up thing to do.

and the agents on the front line not only get to be cussed, sneered and yelled at by people who keep saying they would never be treated this way in the United States (WTF?)

I can sympathize with this as well. Must be lower 48 tourons squawking at 'em.