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DzynKingRTR said:
Just heard that Warren Buffet is dumping all of his airline stocks. Probably a wise move.
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Wow! I though the idiom was "buy low, sell high", not the other way around. If he is violating that then he must really think the airlines stocks aren't coming back any time soon. Glad I don't own any.
 
crimsonaudio said:
And the casual misuse of hate in the political realm has created a space where it's commonly misused now when discussing most anything political. If you disagree with someone's stance now, it's because you hate the person, not because you simply disagree with their view.
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I love some of the people who support trump but was devastated to learn more about some of their views. It's actually been traumatizing. Biden may not be a thrilling choice for a lot of people and he, without question, has some major flaws. He would not, however, deliberately and continuously fuel divisions among the populace for his own gain. It's not that the divisions don't happen or wouldn't if he is elected because they would. They always do. But trump does it on purpose and seems to enjoy it. Biden wouldn't. In fact, how many of our past Presidents have EVER done that? How many tried to fan the flames of hatred out of spite, immaturity and pettiness almost daily and then took glee from it? I find that some of my friends and family still support him. It crushes me to know it and it's terrible. I don't hate them but I've lost faith in them. I don't trust them or their judgment anymore.
 
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DzynKingRTR said:
I have heard there are some planes that only have 6 people on them not including the staff. How creepy would it be to basically have a 747 to yourself?
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It sounds like Southwest Airlines is trying to make a go of it

www.marketwatch.com

Southwest Airlines CEO says worst of pandemic over for company: ‘I don’t think June will be a good month...hopefully it will be a bit better than May’

Southwest Airline CEO Gary Kelly said Sunday he think the airline is past the worst period of the coronavirus pandemic.
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TIDE-HSV said:
I had it happen back in the 60s and 70s, but not in a 747...
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I once flew from HSV to Melbourne, FL on an old Vickers Viscount turboprop. It was configured oddly, with sort of a circular bench seat in the extreme rear, with the galley amidships, instead of the rear like in later models. There were three of us on the plane - me and a middle-aged honeymooning couple. They moved to that bench seat in the back and, to put it mildly, were all over each other. They didn't quite do the nasty but I was peeking out of the corner of my eye to see if the show would proceed to that. It was a long flight...
 
DzynKingRTR said:
I have heard there are some planes that only have 6 people on them not including the staff. How creepy would it be to basically have a 747 to yourself?
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I took a flight from London to Singapore on a brand new British Airways 747-400 some time in 89 or 90. When I say brand new I mean they were literally pulling the plastic covers off the last few seats as we were boarding. There was maybe 20 to 25 passengers on a plane that seats ~400. Crew announced as we were getting ready to board that they only had enough first class meals for the people that paid for it so outside of that cabin we were free to take any seat we wanted. It was to this day my greatest flight ever. Empty, spotless clean and a crew member for every 4 or 5 of us. Not creepy at all, amazing
 
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Chukker Veteran said:
He plays the "pity on me, I'm so mistreated" bunk better than any grifter ever has. He's the greatest.

"Everybody thought Lincoln had it bad but he never had to face the kind of disrespectful press I deal with every day."
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Does he have to face a press that can be seen in more places than the old printing press/Pony Express days?
Yes.

I'm sick of his temper tantrums and channeling his inner Frank Costanza. You're ex-military as am I. Trump says he'd have made a great general, but he's the guy who would have filled his pants and went home crying that first night when the drill instructors were yelling at him during "shock treatment."

I long for the day someone just walks right up and slugs him on national TV. He wouldn't even fight back worth a flip, which is why we have all the phony toughness.
 
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Jon said:
I took a flight from London to Singapore on a brand new British Airways 747-400 some time in 89 or 90. When I say brand new I mean they were literally pulling the plastic covers off the last few seats as we were boarding. There was maybe 20 to 25 passengers on a plane that seats ~400. Crew announced as we were getting ready to board that they only had enough first class meals for the people that paid for it so outside of that cabin we were free to take any seat we wanted. It was to this day my greatest flight ever. Empty, spotless clean and a crew member for every 4 or 5 of us. Not creepy at all, amazing
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Other than the flight to Melbourne I recounted, I've had a few like you're describing. Now, it would never, ever happen. The airline would simply cancel the flight and make you rebook. They didn't used to be so perfunctory about canceling...
 
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I took a flight from London to Singapore on a brand new British Airways 747-400 some time in 89 or 90. When I say brand new I mean they were literally pulling the plastic covers off the last few seats as we were boarding. There was maybe 20 to 25 passengers on a plane that seats ~400. Crew announced as we were getting ready to board that they only had enough first class meals for the people that paid for it so outside of that cabin we were free to take any seat we wanted. It was to this day my greatest flight ever. Empty, spotless clean and a crew member for every 4 or 5 of us. Not creepy at all, amazing
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My flight TO "60 Minutes" in 2013 was packed to the gills, and I was one of the last ones to board and had a center seat.

My flight HOME from there? It was wide seats and I think there MAY have been 20 people total on the aircraft. I stretched out and was probably eight rows from the nearest person.

When my son fled Los Angeles six weeks ago on a "hurry up and get on" flight with American, he and the people next to him were the only ones on the flight seated directly next to each other. That couple and the flight attendants offered to let him move, but he's a very stickler for the rules - he got seat X, he sits in seat X. (I think this is a manifestation of his Asperger's and having structure and order, but I'd be lying if I said I knew this to be a fact).
 
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TIDE-HSV said:
Other than the flight to Melbourne I recounted, I've had a few like you're describing. Now, it would never, ever happen. The airline would simply cancel the flight and make you rebook. They didn't used to be so perfunctory about canceling...
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mine was due to it being the maiden flight of that new route on BA and even that had been delayed months as Boeing was rather late delivering those planes.

I've had one more recently like it. 2005 or so coming back to Atlanta from a conference in San Diego and Atlanta was expecting a major ice storm so nearly the entire plane was empty. Delta also received something would also never happen now, special permission from the FAA to deviate to the shortest route possible. We made it in just over 3 hours it is typically a little over 4. Also amazing and got home to my kids just before the ice hit
 
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Jon said:
mine was due to it being the maiden flight of that new route on BA and even that had been delayed months as Boeing was rather late delivering those planes.

I've had one more recently like it. 2005 or so coming back to Atlanta from a conference in San Diego and Atlanta was expecting a major ice storm so nearly the entire plane was empty. Delta also received something would also never happen now, special permission from the FAA to deviate to the shortest route possible. We made it in just over 3 hours it is typically a little over 4. Also amazing and got home to my kids just before the ice hit
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Drifting OT, but you reminded me of my last flight out of SD, also bound for Atlanta, some years ago. We had a good tailwind and the pilot came on to say that we'd be ahead of schedule and he expected an exceptionally smooth flight. Those were, of course, the fatal words. They served dinner and just after everyone settled in with their trays, the plane hit an express down elevator. I'd stayed belted in, but my tray zoomed upwards a couple of feet by the time I caught it and brought it back down to the table. A lot of others weren't that lucky and the attendants spent the next hour in cleanup mode... :)
 
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