Alaska Airlines turns liberal

[Captain Crunch]

Originally Posted by notreesininceland

Gee, I didn't know you had turned against Fox so vehemently. Good for you, buddy!

perfect....

[teamcoltra]

Originally Posted by stiffnecked

When I worked for Alaska Airlines as a ramper we always went above and beyond to deliver excellent customer service. Each bag was delicately placed in the cargo hold with tender loving care.

... lol?

I just came off the ramp... and while we DO treat the bags a lot better than those people at Menzies (ugh), our job was still about speed.

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lol @ met for her always wonderful cheery outlook on life, and brining cheer to this forum.

[Moose Whisperer]

Originally Posted by teamcoltra

AKDreamin: :P Not for another year... still too young my friend.. but I will hold you to it. You guys know I fly for free (most of you do) so I wont have a problem doing so!


You know that Alaska's sister company (horizon) is #1 in the United States for On-Time performance (#5 or so in the world)

Alaska Airlines on-time performance isn't HORRIBLE either... you must realize that Alaska does have certain -- challenges.

Its hard to accept it because you are essentially forced to fly them, so when there is an issue, you associate that with AS, because you (probably) dont fly anyone else as often as you do AS.


If I fly 5 flights with AS, and 1 is delayed. I fly once on another airline, and have a great experiance. I am going to have the illusion (delusion?) that they are a better airline.

Not trying to make up for AS or to assume anything about you, but for most people this is the case.

Actually, I like to poke fun at Alaska Airlines more out of affection than anything else. I appreciate that they do as well as they do given the conditions they fly in up here. And for all of my complaining, I consider them head and shoulders above some of the other carriers down in the -48. Many of them are simply intolerable - American being the worst IMO. And I simply can't stand all of those cut rate carriers like Southwest, Jet Blue, Ted, Fred, Ed...whatever. I would rather take a bus than fly on some of those.

My real concern however is that some day we may lose Alaskair Air, similar to what happened in Hawaii. Aloha Airlines was a decades old Hawaiian institution (I remember flying them when I was a little kid) and they were forced into bankruptcy when one of those basement rate carriers from Arizona moved in. Now the people on the islands are left with either flying Hawaiian Air, or being stuffed on to flying cattle cars like livestock. I'm very worried this could happen up here, in which case we'll all find out what real cr@ppy service is like, and end up paying $40 for carry-ons for the priviledge.

I think the old saying applies...you never appreciate what you have until you lose it. I hope we don't find this out the hard way like Hawaii did.

[teamcoltra]

I always love to hear good things about Alaska (I am no longer an employee, but they are still the best, and they are still giving me flight benefits for going to school full time). Also Alaska is looking good to start to fill the gap from Aloha Air's departure (lol departure).

AS now flies daily flights from Anchorage, LA, and Seattle (other places too?) to all the major islands.

I have also heard rumors that they are thinking of barging a couple horizon Q400's (one of the greenest planes in the sky...and man do I love flying in Q400s... they are so much quieter than the jets, and you tend to get full beverage service where on short jet flights, they will not do that... anyway sorry) to island hop.

This will be great for AS, and HI

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by notreesininceland

Gee, I didn't know you had turned against Fox so vehemently. Good for you, buddy!

And how do you put Alaska Airlines passing out cheap snacks as some kind of Fox News Bashing? Your doing that medical grade pot aren't you!

[Made_it_To_the_Metroplex]

Why are people so touchy about religious things? I'm not, but the vast majority of people in this country are religious. If they happen to let it slip in conversation, why beat them up for it? Deal with it!

I flew AK LAX-YVR and again ANC-SEA before/after a cruise last year. I thought the prayer cards were just kind of "cute". Certainly something you don't see anywhere else, and I don't think of that as necessarily a bad thing.

[Dusty Rhodes]

Originally Posted by teamcoltra

lol sorry to bring the thread to the prayer card tangent, here is what I will say on the issue:

I am a militant agnostic (as funny as that sounds) -- I think people should believe in God, and the SCIENTIFIC THEORY of Intelligent Design (NOT CREATIONISM) is a valid theory that fills the holes that Darwinism cannot explain.

Hummmmmm, anyone who believe that there are any serious holes in Darwins' theory A. hasn't read Darwin and/or B. didn't understand what they read. Also, anyone who believes that "intelligent design" is scientific, has really low standards for "things that constitute "science".

[notreesininceland]

Originally Posted by Dusty Rhodes

Hummmmmm, anyone who believe that there are any serious holes in Darwins' theory A. hasn't read Darwin and/or B. didn't understand what they read. Also, anyone who believes that "intelligent design" is scientific, has really low standards for "things that constitute "science".

Hear! Hear!

Darwin's insight is one of the greatest intellectual triumphs of the human race, and his name is insured immortality for as long as the human race exists.

[tigre79]

Originally Posted by Dusty Rhodes

Hummmmmm, anyone who believe that there are any serious holes in Darwins' theory A. hasn't read Darwin and/or B. didn't understand what they read. Also, anyone who believes that "intelligent design" is scientific, has really low standards for "things that constitute "science".

Agreed. And it's pretty telling when someone calls it "Darwinism" these days. We've moved on quite a lot now with the Modern Synthesis, which applies our current understanding of genetics to the original theory (though the ideas Darwin - and Wallace - came up with are pretty amazing given that they had no knowledge of genetics). Nowadays I'd suggest reading Mayr or Futuyma, though Dawkins is probably better for a non-specialist audience.



Back to Alaska Airlines, I've only flown with them a few times, with mixed results. When I missed my flight in San Jose on my way to Fairbanks last summer, the very nice woman at the baggage desk rearranged my flight, got me a reasonably priced hotel, and even bought me cookies and apple juice since I had no cash on me, but the woman at ANC who checked me in on my last flight messed up the last leg of the flight and nearly got me stranded at DFW, but the people at the American Airlines gate let me through even though my boarding pass wasn't right.