Interesting. So does it seem to more frequent fliers than me that all the mergers and airlines going out which reduced the number or airlines made it much worse to fly these days?
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 12, 2014, at 4:29 PM, Rich Thomas > <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: > > This was NWA, sadly after the demise of EAL. I still have my Eastern gold > card. I think NWA bascially took over the EAL schedule from DCA/BOS. I had > to break in a whole new club crew, but having the woman who ran the BOS > Eastern club come work for us did give us a bit of insight into the whole > thing, and she still had connections. > > --R > >> On 2/12/14 3:57 PM, Dan Penoff wrote: >> That's pretty much what had happened, if I recall correctly. There were two >> scheduled flights, the first of which was delayed, the second on time. >> People from both piled ombré first aircraft that came in and I sat around >> and watched. When they called for the second flight me and one other guy >> were the only ones there. >> >> The equipment had to be in Milwaukee so they were going no matter what. >> >> This was also at about the time Eastern was going into bankruptcy, and we >> were avoiding flying on them for fear of being stranded when they cacked. >> >> Dan >> >>> On Feb 12, 2014, at 3:16 PM, Rich Thomas >>> <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: >>> >>> I did that once on a flight from DC to Boston, the plane I was booked on >>> was packed full, I was going to get on it and saw the other one there that >>> had been delayed at the adjacent gate, asked if it was going to Boston too, >>> the woman said yes. So I asked if I could get on it, she said sure. So I >>> get on, there is one other guy there, the FA closed the door and said, >>> "We're outta here." She gave us beers, put on a movie, both FAs sat down >>> with us, and I had a coupla more beers, we got there to the gate when the >>> other packed plane was arriving. Quite civilized. I think they had put >>> everyone on that one flight due to the delay, then the plane that had been >>> delayed was empty as all its passengers were packed on the other one. >>> >>> --R >>> >>> >>>> On 2/12/14 2:51 PM, Dan Penoff wrote: >>>> I once flew on an Eastern 727 from Atlanta to Milwaukee with one other >>>> passenger - otherwise the plane was empty. We played gin rummy with the >>>> cabin crew and had free drinks all the way back. It was fun. >>>> >>>> Dan >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
