and I don’t care.  The customer was flying standby and even if you’ve boarded, you are subject to the whims of anything when you fly standby.  Don’t want to be subject to that?  Don’t fly standby.

Here is the STORY on the Consumerist blog. 

I don’t care if it was a 14 year old fat kid or a 44 year old giant of a man.  Southwest shouldn’t be apologizing for removing a standby passenger from their flight regardless of their frequent flier status or “normal” procedures.  My opinion would be different if this person wasn’t flying standby, yes, but that isn’t the case here.  In fact, this strikes me as one more spoiled frequent flier lashing out because they didn’t get what they want.

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Coming out of the latest financial reports from Delta, several news outlets noticed that Delta has plans to continue to acquire used MD-90’s for their fleet.  Unlike almost any other airline, Delta has found a use for these aircraft that beats the economics of the 737-800. 

Surely the low acquisition costs and high reliability of these aircraft make a good case for their purchase.  The MD-90 is a half generation newer than the MD-80 aircraft flying out there and since most were produced in the mid to late 1990’s, they have plenty of life left in them to be used for an economical period of time.   It’s clear that Delta prefers to bridge the gap between the current offerings of Boeing and Airbus and what future aircraft that may come along late in the next decade.

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