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  David Paul Appell March 27, 2011 at 11:43pm

  Ever wonder whatever happened to PeoplExpress? Or all those other dearly departed airlines of yore? Member Max Pesling's interesting blog post spills the beans.
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  Cheryl Ann Murphy March 25, 2011 at 3:28pm

  New to the group and looking forward to discussions!!
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  Anil March 18, 2011 at 11:13pm

  I agree with Buzzy Gordon: Communicate communicate and communicate. What a simple question can elicit, an FBI and subsequent headaches cannot resolve. 

   

  Is there more to the story than has been reported ? 
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  Buzzy Gordon March 18, 2011 at 8:27pm

  C'mon, guys, if you ignore a fasten seat belt sign for any variety of reasons (because you need to go to the bathroom, or get medicine from your hand baggage, for example) you are breaking a rule -- but does this get you questioned by the FBI? If there is not enough combined intelligence among the entire flight crew to ascertain directly from the passengers what was going on (don't forget, they had already passed strict airport security to get on board, including scrutiny of their phylacteries), then the airline deserves to get lambasted -- if not for cultural insensitivity, then for downright stupidity.
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  Nayaz Noor March 18, 2011 at 5:34am

   I have to agree with Max's opinion.

   

   
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  John Kipper March 18, 2011 at 3:56am

  OK, so now on the same day as the three jewsh guys got questioned in LA for praying in hebrew, a muslim woman is denied boarding on aflight out of sandiego because some flight attendant heard her say "i gotta go" on her cell phone and thought she meant "it's a go". like that automatically means that the woman is part of a terrorist plot!!! will stupidity never cease? i'm all for more secrurity but for heavens sake be reasonable folks!! i mean if this woman is a hardened terrorist is she going to stand there at the gate and talk about it on a cell phone???

   

  sometimes i wonder if theres intelligent life onthis planet.
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  Max Pesling March 16, 2011 at 10:37pm

  Anti-semitism on Alaska Airlines? CNN reports that three Orthodox Jews caused a major hooha on a flight from Mexico when they ignored the seatbelt sign and started wrapping their tefillin around their arms and heads and chanting in Hebrew. Apparently no one on this flight, not even the flight attendants, were familiar with this type of prayer, so they thought these guys were terrorists. They radioed ahead, and the three men were questioned by the FBI at LAX. Now the airline has apologized to the three men for their "cultural insensitivity."

   

  Now, I'm as Jewish as gefilte fish, but I think this is ridiculous. Why should the airline apologize? The men were not harassed for being Jewish, they were reprimanded for not observing the captain's and flight attendants' orders (i.e., sit down during turbulence!). Does this mean that every time someone wants to do a religious ritual on a plane, they can disregard safety regulations? If an Opus Dei catholic wants to flog his back in the aisle, is that cool too? If a santeria practitioner wants to sacrifice a goat in the lavatory, do we allow that?

   

  Come on, folks, when we board a plane, we have to observe some common sense rules. Pray when you get off the plane, G-d can wait!

   

  Or am I being unfair?? 
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  Donna Esposito February 18, 2011 at 4:53pm

  I just read that "Major domestic carriers on Thursday rolled back their most recent fare increase on flights favored by business travelers."  But because the online fares seem to change every five minutes, can somebody tell how me how anyone would know if there really has been a fare hike or rollback?
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  Ed Wetschler February 10, 2011 at 7:54pm

  Delta Airlines: New premium seats will be called "economy comfort."  What should we call the other economy seats?