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Re: Kevin Smith is a douchenozzle
I would be pissed that the concierge (ha!) escorted me to my flight and was too late, assuming the concierge assured them ten minutes was still early enough.
But dude, it's not like you get to arrive at your gate at 9:57 for a ten o'clock flight. I certainly wouldn't blog about it afterward. Especially since it seems that they were very apologetic about it.
The nerve!
House | Blog
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I love the last line. Before he got home, the airline had already apologized, refunded his money and offered him free flights and he 'appreciates the effort.'
Clearly you don't appreciate it enough to keep your whining out of major magazines. And really, if you hired a concierge to make sure you get to your flight on time, and he misses the final boarding call, you fire your concierge. You don't give the gate attendant a hard time.
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Seriously toot? You expect them to take the bags out, search through them, identify theirs (how, let KS and his wife go out on the tarmac?), and get them off in ten minutes while they're waiting for the call to taxi out? If they can't let them on the plane, they certainly can't take the time to do that.
The nerve!
House | Blog
But those people aren't celebrities.
Duh.
The nerve!
House | Blog
I don't blame him for wanting to be last on the plane. Adam Corolla has a funny passage in his latest book about this. His theory that if you pay for first, you shouldn't have to board first and wait, instead it should come with a service of allowing you to sit in the bar until the last possible second. Makes sense to me.
That being said, there's no reason to stretch it to the absolute limit. And they don't make flight announcements in the lounges, you are expected to keep an eye on the clock like a big boy.
Douchenozzle absolutely for immediately blogging about your own stupidity.
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Accommodating how? He was late. What are they supposed to do that does not then delay an entire plane full of people that were not late?
But really? 1 minute late? I mean, I get playing by the rules and protocol and all that but cheese and rice...I don't think anyone would be even the leats bit aware if someone took an extra 5 minutes to board last minute.
They refunded his flight and offered him free tickets. Instantly.
When I got stuck in Amsterdam for two days and United refused to give us our checked baggage because it had already been through security, lied to us about the fact that they were required to provide free calls home to family/work to explain where we were, and offered free business class upgrades to us while waiting in line to get on our final flight and then redacted it, you know what they gave me?
A $100 voucher and a vague apology letter. Two months later.
I'd say Virgin is being pretty accommodating.
The nerve!
House | Blog
So how too late do you have to be to be too late? They go through a number of checklists and safety protocols after closing the doors. They aren't just twiddling their thumbs for 10 minutes. Re-opening the doors to let on additional late comers effs up the whole system. That's why when the door closes, that's it.
When I worked for a retailer we had to go through a hoopla of end of night crap. We closed our doors at 9 pm but if someone came running up just as that happened, we'd let them come in and grab what they wanted. It's good customer service. It wasn't a huge effing deal to wait another couple of minutes. All they had to do was hold off on the checklists for a few minutes while fatman and his family walked on board.
The concept is not the same AT ALL.
Letting a customer come in and stay after closing at a retail store isn't fukking up the flight schedule for the entire day. Not just at this airport either, if the planes can't make up time.
The nerve!
House | Blog
I keep thinking she can't possibly be this stupid, but I'm always wrong.
Take it slowly. Planes have to complete certain procedures before taxiing to the runway. On the runway, esp. at big airports, they have to be at the takeoff point at the right time in order to squeeze into a 2 to 3 minutes take off window. On the other end, you have, at big airports, a 2-3 minute landing window. If you miss that window, you have to wait for the next window. Since planes often land, get cleaned and reloaded, and take off again in a half hour, little delays can snowball.
Once, flying into Chicago, an asswipe army girl was allowed to board just a few minutes late. We sat on the tarmac for 90 minutes waiting for the next opening into the O'Hare flight pattern. I spent the whole flight fantasizing strangling the army chick.
ETA: As for delaying for a pilot who has to use the restroom. What else are you going to do? It's the pilot.