Making things better for the passenger - Respect

[Llademos]

Xeque

Yes ... £0.04 total, all charges included, for two people UK-Ireland, that's a penny each, per flight. £4 for paying this with a debit card. Total £4.04.

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[Beer_n_Tabs]

Had the same myself recently England - to - Scotland
£3.01 including tax.
Llademos...even cheaper than yours so

Now when you do have bags etc I can understand how annoying it can be to have the extra hidden charges, but on the flip side...an away day or an overnight trip where I can put a change of clothes in hand bagage means I dont have to pay EXTRA.

Rough with the smooth, thats the way I see it.

[Llademos]

B n T

Who needs extra bags when a Barbour will carry a week's worth of clothes in the back 'pheasant' pocket?

Anyway, my £4.04 was for two people - that's £2.02 each.

[Beer_n_Tabs]

I'm a grown up (allegedly).... I know when I am beaten

[radeng]

There's one point about having respect for the CC and flight crew - without them I couldn't do my job, which of necessity involves lots of travelling. So maybe eventually I pay their wages (or my employer does!) but in the same way, they pay mine. So they're entitled to respect for that, if nothing else.

[WHBM]

Originally Posted by patrickal

When you think about it, commercial air travel has not gone far since the 1950's and the release of the Caravelle, 707 and Convair 880.

Actually we have, very substantially. You just have to compare the accident rates of those very types you quote with the situation nowadays. For example in just two years, 1973-4, Pan Am alone lost 5 of their Boeing 707s in major fatal accidents, a rate we would find unbelievable nowadays. Other carriers were comparable. The improvement has not been achieved without a huge amount of effort by all concerned.

[radeng]

WHBM,

we seem to have some thread drift....however, those major accidents were caused by what? Has this vast improvement in safety been caused by mechanical or technological improvements, or improvements in crew training and CRM? If you consider the growth in air travel since those days, the improvement is even more remarkable in terms of incidents per passenger mile. The most dangerous part of flying is the motorway to and from the airport!

[ZFT]

I'm NOT being flippant, but all of the above post plus much, much more.