Ray D
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Anyone here old enough to remember that old United Airlines slogan? Anyone here remember friendly skies - pleasant flights - the time when getting onto an airplane was part of the fun, for a trip, maybe the primary real reason for the trip? :
Saw another thread from a newby retired pilot. Didn?t want to hijack it, so decided to post this piece of curiosity, here.
Who still flies? Who won?t? Under what conditions will or won?t you? Anybody still enjoy it? Anybody do it for fun? (Flying, I?m talking about.) I was getting about fed up, in the late 80s. ???
Took a ?fun? trip to Vegas, in 98. Wife and I, both, got the ?special treatment? behind the closed curtains at every stop. Went from Boise to SLC. Got searched in Boise. SLC to Phoenix. Searched there. Phoenix to Vegas where we had a good time for several days. Then, searched in Vegas on the way to Frisco. Searched there, on the way back to Boise. Swore off flying as I hadn?t had a good time in years, and had paid good money to be abused.
Took another chance in 2001. Went to D.C. Can?t report as trip story is rated X for gratuitous violence, both ways. Did have a good time in D.C. and visiting my son and family.
Went to K.C. on UAL, ( to pick up a 91 Allegro in 2003.) I?ll skip the attendant who threw my suitcases onto my feet, on the wheelchair, boarding the plane in Boise, leaving me limping for several months. We were to be met in K.C. by personnel who would wheel us to the baggage claim.
The guy who picked up my wife was in a hurry, and left pushing her on the run, her screaming objections, to no avail. Last I saw of her, for a while.
My guy didn?t show up. Stewardess pushed me out onto the boarding tunnel, on the little lazy Susan, close to the airplane. It made it easier for the people boarding to get around me. The airplane left and the whole tunnel moved away from there.
After some time, I pushed the wheel chair up the ramp, and through the door, myself. I went to the UAL desk and asked for help. I was about done in. ?Did you call ahead and ask for someone?? she asked. ?Yes.? ?Sir, they will be here shortly. Wait right over there . . . .?
Later, I saw a cop, walking a short distance away. I flagged him down. He solved the problem in just a few minutes. Thank you K.C. Airport P.D. When I got to the baggage claim, my wife and brother were talking to the Airport Police, about to file a missing person?s report. Just in time. (She was still furious, after her ride!)
What would it take to get me back on a commercial flight? I?m an old Air Force boy! I can?t imagine what would make me fly, commercial, again. (I?d get on an ol? Gooney Bird, or just about anything with the Stars and Bars on it.) ;D
Ray D. ;D
Saw another thread from a newby retired pilot. Didn?t want to hijack it, so decided to post this piece of curiosity, here.
Who still flies? Who won?t? Under what conditions will or won?t you? Anybody still enjoy it? Anybody do it for fun? (Flying, I?m talking about.) I was getting about fed up, in the late 80s. ???
Took a ?fun? trip to Vegas, in 98. Wife and I, both, got the ?special treatment? behind the closed curtains at every stop. Went from Boise to SLC. Got searched in Boise. SLC to Phoenix. Searched there. Phoenix to Vegas where we had a good time for several days. Then, searched in Vegas on the way to Frisco. Searched there, on the way back to Boise. Swore off flying as I hadn?t had a good time in years, and had paid good money to be abused.
Took another chance in 2001. Went to D.C. Can?t report as trip story is rated X for gratuitous violence, both ways. Did have a good time in D.C. and visiting my son and family.
Went to K.C. on UAL, ( to pick up a 91 Allegro in 2003.) I?ll skip the attendant who threw my suitcases onto my feet, on the wheelchair, boarding the plane in Boise, leaving me limping for several months. We were to be met in K.C. by personnel who would wheel us to the baggage claim.
The guy who picked up my wife was in a hurry, and left pushing her on the run, her screaming objections, to no avail. Last I saw of her, for a while.
My guy didn?t show up. Stewardess pushed me out onto the boarding tunnel, on the little lazy Susan, close to the airplane. It made it easier for the people boarding to get around me. The airplane left and the whole tunnel moved away from there.
After some time, I pushed the wheel chair up the ramp, and through the door, myself. I went to the UAL desk and asked for help. I was about done in. ?Did you call ahead and ask for someone?? she asked. ?Yes.? ?Sir, they will be here shortly. Wait right over there . . . .?
Later, I saw a cop, walking a short distance away. I flagged him down. He solved the problem in just a few minutes. Thank you K.C. Airport P.D. When I got to the baggage claim, my wife and brother were talking to the Airport Police, about to file a missing person?s report. Just in time. (She was still furious, after her ride!)
What would it take to get me back on a commercial flight? I?m an old Air Force boy! I can?t imagine what would make me fly, commercial, again. (I?d get on an ol? Gooney Bird, or just about anything with the Stars and Bars on it.) ;D
Ray D. ;D