Monday, August 16, 2010

BloggeRhythms 8/16/2010

I'm a very confused blogger. It seems that, somehow, the posting dates on my last two entry's crossed and one was lost altogether. So, yesterday's entry is actually today's, and yesterday's is gone completely.

Worse yet, I don't remember yesterday's exactly, so I have to start from scratch. Since that's the case, just a short entry on how airlines really work (or don't.)

My wife and I were in Florida, or maybe Puerto Rico, or the Bahamas's, or wherever but it was a short hop, flightwise, back to New York on Eastern Airlines. It was a few years ago, yet there were often departure delays even then and we were more or less used to them.

On this particular day, our flight was held for quite a long time, close to two hours as I recall. Though we hadn't inquired as to what the delay was about, because, bottom line it didn't matter -a late departure was a late departure, case closed, somehow, someone who knew told us why we were being help up.

It turned out that, according to our informant, an Eastern employee, that Frank Lorenzo, Eastern's chairman was going to be on board and he was running late. Thus, they were waiting for him.

I moaned and groaned remarking that for a guy like that they could fly him privately or add another later flight to their schedule, but I thought it was criminal that we were going to get home late ourselves because of this turkey's delaying us. To that I was told not to worry.

The employee said something like "Don't worry about your arrival time in New York, that will surely be on schedule. It's only takeoff that's delayed. They'll fly straight through once he gets here; meaning no waiting for airfcraft in front of you for departure or circling before landing once you reach New York. And there's lots more room than we've used in the scheduled departure times for situations like this. In fact, if the pilot really opens the throttles, and wastes a little fuel for Mr. Lorenzo, you still might arrive early."

And that's exactly what happened. We arrived on time, no problems, just like the Eastern employee had told us, regardless of how late we left. So, here's a tip from an experienced air traveler for those of you who fly a lot. Always make reservations on flights where the carrier's chairman's on board. I guarantee you, you'll never arrive late again.

That's it for today folks.

Adios.

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