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I just booked a flight to Cincinnati, couple months in advance, $1456 on an itty bitty RJ145. Yikes! Got a couple other flights coming up but I'll be drugging myself up for this one for sure.
I hope that's a typo. There's got to be an extra digit in there. If you're talking domestic, there's no reason you should have paid that for coach.
I just booked a flight to Cincinnati, couple months in advance, $1456 on an itty bitty RJ145. Yikes! Got a couple other flights coming up but I'll be drugging myself up for this one for sure.
You need to fire your corporate travel agent or your boss needs to fire you, because I'm seeing between $600 and $900 for FIRST CLASS R/T on the DFW>CVG route pretty much all of September and October.
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Originally Posted by apexgds
I hope that's a typo. There's got to be an extra digit in there. If you're talking domestic, there's no reason you should have paid that for coach.
I used to fly there direct from Connecticut and would pay dearly every.single.time. But never in the 4 figure range!
Yep, they rake us over the coals. There was no difference getting in on Sunday. I only need to be there by noonish Monday so I just did the Monday morning. A connecting flight on Sunday didn't lower it too much and the company discourages connecting if not necessary. I have to be back Wednesday morning.
Poor people take Greyhound. People who can afford to take vacations that involve flying can choose their carrier and spend the extra money for a seat with extra leg room.
That's just untrue. In fact, I'm moving to another country and will be flying when I do. I have no money for luxuries like first or business class.
Because recline has nothing to do with it. If you can't fit with the aircraft being used in the way it's designed, you don't fit. What is so hard to grasp about that? Armrests go down and seats recline. If you don't fit with those design enhancements in place, you don't fit, buy a seat you do fit into.
Your complete lack of ability to support your conjecture, or disprove my own equally plausible conjecture (as delineated in way back in post 177) is fascinating to read.
How many times do you need to re-state the same thesis without adding anything to your argument? How thoroughly does the poll need to negate you (currently 82 against, 31 in favor) before you see you are in the minority?
Actually most employers will take an employees preference for carrier into account when booking tickets, and as long as the cost is close, will book the preferred carrier.
Mine does. They take into account preference for carrier and schedule. It says so explicitly in the travel policy, as long as the cost difference is "reasonable" (whatever that means). Must book coach fare and pay for upgrades. No problem there; my upgrades all cost $0, so I gladly fork over $0.
Yep, they rake us over the coals. There was no difference getting in on Sunday. I only need to be there by noonish Monday so I just did the Monday morning. A connecting flight on Sunday didn't lower it too much and the company discourages connecting if not necessary. I have to be back Wednesday morning.
Yes, drugs.
Next time let me do your travel planning and send me the leftover $1000
(ETA: Just saw that the company discourages connections ... my company would happily let me make multiple stops if it meant saving $1000)
As long as the seat reclines, it is the right of the person in it to do so--they aren't the one who needs to spend the money, as they aren't the one complaining about space.
Actually, more often than not, they are indeed the ones complaining about space. On those occasions when I fly coach, when I sit down in my seat, my knees are usually touching, if not actually pressed against, the seat back in front of me. That seat will not be reclining no matter how forcefully you or anyone else presses that little button on your chair or how vocally anyone wants to assert his or her right to recline the seat. And I have had people in that seat complain to the flight attendants that they can't recline. Once the flight attendant comes over and sees how tall I am and how my body is situated, the complainer is basically told that there is nothing that can be done.
Actually, more often than not, they are indeed the ones complaining about space. On those occasions when I fly coach, when I sit down in my seat, my knees are usually touching, if not actually pressed against, the seat back in front of me. That seat will not be reclining no matter how forcefully you or anyone else presses that little button on your chair or how vocally anyone wants to assert his or her right to recline the seat. And I have had people in that seat complain to the flight attendants that they can't recline. Once the flight attendant comes over and sees how tall I am and how my body is situated, the complainer is basically told that there is nothing that can be done.
My experience is similar.
The basic ability to sit clearly trumps the luxury of reclining.
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