OT: Buying American Airlines tickets months ahead still ok?

Chapter 11 is one of those things that airlines do periodically--not having to pay interest on all those airplanes reduces their operating cost, which gives them an advantage over other airlines.

Or you could branch out. (I may make platinum on Delta this year, more's the pity. I don't fit into economy seats very well--my shoulders are a good 2-1/2 inches too wide, and my femurs are an inch or so too long for the available knee room. Thus I concentrate pretty hard on getting upgrades, which means sticking to one airline unless that's absolutely impossible.)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Have you flown in a B717? I recently flew one and found the seating pitch to be a lot better than other planes. The knee room in the EExit row was incredible.

I was on a flight and, at the end, the stewardess said "We know you have a choice of bankrupt airlines, so thank you for choosing United."

Is that where engineers sit?

On a sunny day (Tue, 29 May 2012 18:26:01 -0700) it happened Joerg wrote in :

Are you not on the no fly list?

snipped-for-privacy@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz schrieb:

Hello,

I heard the seating pitch depends on the orders by the airlines. Boeing delivers the same plane model with different seating pitches.

Bye

Hi, Joerg:-

I think the chances of having major problems are probably

Cool!

From out here (SMF) there ain't much choice unless you are willing to hang around at some stopover airport forever.

I had tons of miles with AA, it's otherwise a good airline. Used them also for upgrades and stuff.

Why should I be? Because I have a beard?

AA's web site seem to offer the better deals versus priceline.com unless there are hidden fees that the other has included. Unfortunately they offer no insurance.

I'd also have to price that out versus others where I don't need to buy that.

Thanks!

Yikes. That's the worst case, being stuck. I am surprised other airlines weren't more accommodating. After all, I guess they'd like to pilfer some ex-fliers from the bankrupt airline and gouging is not the way to do that. That can backfire for years.

On a sunny day (Wed, 30 May 2012 12:28:22 -0700) it happened Joerg wrote in :

Did not know that, no I have read they scan internet for keywords like 'boom', 'phut', 'bang', 'blew up' .. ...etc etc. Now when that computah sounds the alarm, the poor government employee who does the 'screening' will read your texts here, an not being electronically educated (eh educated in electronics) will think: "Hell ***I*** am not going to be blamed for letting this guy fly!" And will put you on the top of the no-fly list with a rising red star!

They are a bit smarter than that. And when they do a thorough backgrounder they'll see that I also design electronics for them thar flying machines so that probably makes me ok :-)

A friend was on a SouthWest Airlines flight, some years back. The pilot slammed the thing into the runway and bounced it high. While taxiing to the gate he came on the intercom; "This is Captain . Sorry about that landing but I've been on vacation for three weeks and kinda forgot how to fly this thing. For those of you continuing on on this flight, you'll be happy to know we change crews at this airport."

Can be worse. Me, four other guys plus pilot (the bush pilot kind of dude) in a Dornier-27. Shortly after take off, which happened a few feet before colliding with a fence. Rate of climb point-something feet per minute. Stall horn beeps, then comes on constantly. Pine trees approaching, tips are higher than we are. The pilot who otherwise never says anything let off things like "S..T!". When we reached that forest there was a swoosh sound and we could see the snow bursting off of the tree tops. After the landing there were pine twigs in the landing gear.

Wow. You're lucky to be here.

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