David Stempler
David Stempler
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Air travelers should be aware of all their options before they reach an airport, and that means looking at other airlines and airports, car rentals and even trains.
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Canceled flights really irritate passengers tremendously, because you're stuck, and you usually can't get out of an airport for a day or more, and so it really disrupts their travel many times more than a delayed flight.
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Taking it out to Denver is a new approach, because it goes into the United system out West ... as opposed to bringing it into O'Hare with short flights.
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Fares will be down, crowds will be up, delays will be longer. You're more likely to be in the middle seat, or next to someone in the middle seat, or sitting at the gate because you got bumped off the airplane.
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All in all, it's a formula for lots of delays and long lines.
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The enemy in this process is us we the passengers have basically sent a signal to the airlines that we only really care about the price of a ticket, that low fare.
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If we can get together and decide (on a) path in the next five years we can avoid the gridlock we've experienced this summer. Otherwise, it's going to get worse.
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The situation got out of hand and got away from them.
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People didn't pay for these miles. These are loyalty points. People seem to think they have some dollar amount invested there and they don't.
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I'm not saying it's not a valid area to be concerned about, but we need to not isolate one particular component of a larger problem and think that's going to really help.
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The bloom is off the rose in many ways. Operationally and financially, they're like anybody else now.
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I think they should really drop the change fee through the end of the year, or really reduce it to something low like $25. Let's say you got a relatively cheap ticket. With $100 on top of it, it's suddenly not much of a deal.
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We've had passengers stranded on taxiways for longer than that. I think it's really going to be a session for the secretary to browbeat people and really deflect blame from the Department of Transportation and the FAA.
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There are just so many multiple factors that it's hard to see very far down into the future.