Sorry Jet* people, but the single sector theory, non interlineing or oncarriage of baggage and free boarding in my mind is ignorant in the extreme in the current Australian market.
It sidelines regional communities and denies them of the choice of what was always considered reasonable service with through baggage checking and seat allocation. Deprives them of International check through and makes the destination look less attractive to prospective tourists in many cases, except maybe those that would have caught the Firefly bus or havent travelled before and don't know better.
It is not that bloody hard to seat allocate - even if you go back to manual seat stickers and manual load and trim sheets. That would also remove the 30 minute checkin bullsh@t.
If you cannot close out a 177 seat aeroplane 15 minutes prior to pushback, then you are an amateur (given of course the right systems to do this).
This poorly conceived sister of Ryan Air (and all of the passengers Ihave booked on them have come back saying they are the Flight Centre of airlines - needs a lot of work before it will be a first choice for a lot of people, even if they have a lovely cabin crew. The experience is loaded with tension and uncertainty before they even take off, and again when they have to make there way to anoher carrier for oncarriage.
Best all
EWL
Last edited by Eastwest Loco; 15th Dec 2004 at 09:53.