[ale] [OT][rant]

[Michael Potter]

There is a new airline at ATL: silverair.  They focus on the short
flights and use turboprops.  Turboprops use 60% of the fuel of a jet.

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potter

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why is air travel so stupid?
>
> Flight from Memphis to Orlando is $112. Includes a 4 hr layover in Atlanta.
> Flight from Memphis to Atlanta is $185.
>
> They both leave at 7:20 am and have the same flight number.
>
> ITS THE SAME &^#$& FLIGHT!!!!
>
> Maybe getting felt up and/or photographed naked wouldn't be so bad if
> everything else weren't already such ream job.
>
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com> wrote:
>> I've now seen two responses but not the original post.
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Lynch
>> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 11:45 AM
>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>> Subject: Re: [ale] [OT][rant]
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>> On 08/02/2012 10:55 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>> ... and don't expect to fly home.  When you don't actually get on the
>>> first leg of the return flight they will cancel your itinerary.
>>> Actually they might cancel it when you don't get on the second leg of
>>> the outbound.
>> That's why you buy a second, unrelated return ticket which is what we did.  In those days a round trip was normally priced cheaper than separate tickets but the had just opened up a new route and was pricing it ridiculously cheap.  I bought a round trip ticked to Portland from Tampa and a one way from Minneapolis to Tampa and it was less than the round trip from Tampa to Mn and back.
>>
>> And I suspect the cancelled my return from Portland but I didn't care.
>>
>> Jim.
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