Oops, I forgot to mention something about my outbound DTW to IAH flight, the same flight that had the extremely rude passenger. We pull up to the gate at IAH about 35 minutes early but there's no one to "drive" the jetbridge. The captain comes on the PA and explains that it should be just…
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Wow - I'm impressed he was able to maintain composure. If I were him, I would've gone all four stripes on his @$$.
I am not employed by an airline and probably not qualified to comment, but neither was this rude passenger, so I'll take a stab anyway: airlines probably don't have a ton of extra stuff sitting around idle at the airport. The staff that receives an inbound aircraft probably just finished sending out another one, either from the same gate or from another one. In this case, it seems (since there was no other aircraft at the gate) that they probably came from another gate. "Calling ahead" doesn't do much good if they are busy with another flight.
Besides, I take it the idiot still got off the plane ahead of the planned arrival time.
Lucky,
Thanks for sharing the great pics! awesome.
Who get to sit in BusinessFirst section?
Hi there, I saw your post a while ago about soliciting questions and advice-seekers.
I recently booked a non-refundable roundtrip ticket with United, and then plans changed and I won't be using the return flight (which has two legs). I figure I would like to notify them, so they can resell the seat if they like, or whatever, but is it possible to negotiate any credit from them in addition? Thanks.