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Originally Posted by jimworcs
Not sure there is a direct correlation!! However, I agree that the only effective remedy is to stop buying services and goods from supplies who provide poor service.
Phx,
The suggestion that people with impairments or disabilities should be prevented from flying if they need simple accommodations is so outdated and ridiculous it is hard to believe you are putting it forward as a serious point for debate. One day you may become the victim of your own hard nosed attitude.. you never know when you too may become disabled. It will be interesting to see if there is a change in attitude then!
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Jim,
Well Jim, here's the corrilation. There are only about 18% of the population of Spokane WA. that smoke. That's pretty much the national average. This amounts to only about 40,000 people. Although we are a small minority we evidently have some financial clout when we face choices at how we are going to spend our money. It obviously only took personal financial choices of sum 40,000 smokers to put over 100 restaurants out of business.
There was no greater pleasure to go out to dinner and drinks once a week with my husband. We'd spend literaly hours over coctails and food, talking the night away. Now, I find that steak and lobster, a bottle of wine, several rum and cokes for him and my pack of cigerettes once a week, is much cheaper than the $100 or more a week that we used to spend when we went out to eat. Several smokers must have come to the same conclusion as we did. (If consumer choices works with restaurants, it will work with airlines too).
As to PHX,
My last cruise in Oct. I traveled on Alaska Air. Going to SeaTac, then schedualed to San Fran and LAX. On the flight out at SeaTac they gave me one hour for my connection. I thought it was plenty of time until I got there and realized that I had to lug my carryon across five turminals, two elevaters, 2 esculators and a train. I got to the gate in time to wave goodbye to my flight which was just leaving the gate. I went to an Alaska counter and said, "I just missed my flight, and I don't care what you do about it, but I have a cruise out of L.A. that I will be boarding at 1 pm. You two work it out and let me know, I'll wait over here". After consultation they said that an hour between flights was "barely legal" and they booked me on another Alaska flight without the San Fran connection that would arrive at LAX earlier than my origional booked flight. It left in an hour and twenty minutes and I trecked back from whince I just came, and I made it 10 min. early (before boarding).
Checking in at Alaska after the cruise in L.A. I requested wheelchair transport in Seattle. Got wheelchair service in Eugene and Seattle, no problem. Staff friendly, good service, (very good Bloody Mary's), oh, and BTW: They must have hired someone other than the idiot at United, to design their seats!