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Re: airplane baggage
Erm, re-reading that, it probably comes off a bit bitchier than I
intended. I'm just now coming in after a night of geisha and sake,
so that's probably altering my delivery. Sorry....
--m.
At 1:30 AM +0900 4/24/06, mech wrote:
>At 1:41 AM +0100 4/23/06, Stephen Goodman wrote:
>>In this case I would say the safety aspect was there before someone
>>decided to make more money than they used to for excess weight.
>
>It sounds like you're assuming that no-one on the list actually
>flies enough to notice a difference. And, if we do, that this
>"safety concern" is only recently a safety concern and nobody ever
>thought about how to balance luggage prior to a month ago. Um,
>yeah...
>
>Speaking personally, I'd say I've spent the majority of my working
>time for this millennium living on a damn plane (gack!). Before I
>cashed out all my stock options and "retired" in mid-2005, I'd
>already made both Gold on American and 100k on United, amongst
>others. Those two alone are worth ~125,000 miles in the air, from
>only January to May 2005.
>
>I've flown a lot (oh, BTW, did I mention I'm writing this from Kyoto
>right now, and my home airport is O'hare?). I can tell you that
>there was never such a big "safety concern" to the US domestic
>carriers in at least six years prior to March of this year. Now,
>it's changing. Whether the carriers have found a sudden new
>interest in safety, or whether they're merely looking for another
>spiff to offset rising fuel prices, I dunno. I know which
>explanation I'm leaning toward, but you can draw your own
>conclusion....
>
> --m.
>
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