United, eh?
Well, United is getting a reputation for really poor maintenance. When the cabin lights started flickering, the flight attendant expressed surprise because usually the maintenance information they receive to pass to passengers has nothing to do with the actual problem. Also, when I worried about scheduled ground transportation, she asked if give the airporter my flight number. When I said yes, she told me not worry about it. Everybody knows that that there is a good chance of United flight coming in a couple of hours late, because they have problems like this all the time. Not every flight she assured me, just "a whole lot of the time". So airporter dispatch would check my flight number. (I still called into the airporter on my cell once we landed.)
DH loves to drive and, being a motor journalist, he does a LOT of it. Not only is he always driving a review car, which means he drives when we go places together, car journalists also have many events they go to during the year where all they do is drive. He just got back from a trip to Ford in Detroit, and he raved about the "84 acres of pure asphalt" he got to drive on. And just ask him about his trips to Willow Springs to drive on the racetrack--the guy will wax rhapsodic.
How are they taking it back, Kat? Spreading the pain, I hope. That's just not right. Not that they're wallowing in money that I know of, but what's been spent's been spent and there's no way this can't hit hard.
The 787 looks like a really nice plane. I think Boeing has a better feel for the airliner marker than Airbus does right now.
So sorry Kat, that really sucks.
Don't give in shrift, that's just what IE wants you to do.
Statistically most airline crashes do have survivors. Being able to get to the exit in time with proper equipment is statistically part of what separates the survivors from the dead. Also being in the right seating section. (I forget where, but statistically, some sections are more likely to survive a crash than others.)
As a rule, back of the plane is better than the front.
Also, wear natural fibers, and particularly (although less of an issue these days) women should never wear stockings since resulting fire and heat can melt these on your skin.
Also, wear natural fibers
but not leather!
(not a fiber, but certainly natural)
The description I heard was "shrinkwrap"
How are they taking it back, Kat? Spreading the pain, I hope. That's just not right. Not that they're wallowing in money that I know of, but what's been spent's been spent and there's no way this can't hit hard.
They make you either hand a check over by the 17 or you have to sign a promissory note. If you take longer than 12 months to pay it back, then they charge you 4% interest.
Kat, that sucks so hard. I'm sorry.
My next flight is on United (shudder) but it's one of the regional flights on a Bombardier (45ish-seat jet). Hopefully it'll be big enough to prevent the inner-ear thingy, and it's a small enough hop to be on time.
They make you either hand a check over by the 17 or you have to sign a promissory note. If you take longer than 12 months to pay it back, then they charge you 4% interest.
No good answer to that question, I guess.
Erika--do you know about this site? [link]
Is it any good?
