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People wouldn't bring so much carry on luggage if the airlines would have competent baggage service. Who wants to stand around for 45 minutes in some dirty airport after an hour flight? Watch the handlers load planes. Anything that even remotely appears to be hobby/fun type equipment gets bashed on purpose. Skis and golf-clubs being the easiest to ID from a distance through a window. 2002 when you could still pack and check stuff in card board boxes, my partner and I went on a mission trip to El Salvador. We took sufficient components to set up 10 desk top computers in a lab at the seminary. Every thing wired up and confirmed before being packed in OEM boxes with extra padding added. Long story short, once we got sorted out in El Salvador, we had enough workable parts for three complete systems. 70% attrition rate due to luggage handlers.
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From about 1969 until 1993, I flew about 3 months out of every year, every Sunday or Monday and every Friday between Colorado Springs and Las Vegas , Denver and Las Vegas, or Albuquerque and Las with the rest of the year an occasional flights to DC,San Francisco,Seattle, London or Paris. I retired in 2003, and except for two to Pittsburgh and one to Ft. Lauderdale and returns I have not been on a plane since.If I can't drive,I don't go My goodness!! I’m sure we were on the same flights several times! I also lived in Colorado Springs, retired in 2005. My travels started in 1972, similar hectic schedules and destinations. Did you ever run into a Dr. Morgenthayer (phonetic spelling) on your trips? Not me but the most prolific traveler ever ... puts us to shame. He was research director for Martin Marietta. Knew half the people on each flight .
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No prayer meetings @ 30,000ft. ?
Guess not.
HC would have surely weighed in by now.
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People wouldn't bring so much carry on luggage if the airlines would have competent baggage service. Who wants to stand around for 45 minutes in some dirty airport after an hour flight? Watch the handlers load planes. Anything that even remotely appears to be hobby/fun type equipment gets bashed on purpose. Skis and golf-clubs being the easiest to ID from a distance through a window. Rifle cases rate pretty high too! One of the boys went to visit his brother in Miami a few months ago and wanted to fish while there,so I gave him my fly rod tube so he could bring 1 of his rods. From Roch,NY to Miami the end cap was broken.1 load/unload.They had to bounce it on the end to break it.
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From about 1969 until 1993, I flew about 3 months out of every year, every Sunday or Monday and every Friday between Colorado Springs and Las Vegas , Denver and Las Vegas, or Albuquerque and Las with the rest of the year an occasional flights to DC,San Francisco,Seattle, London or Paris. I retired in 2003, and except for two to Pittsburgh and one to Ft. Lauderdale and returns I have not been on a plane since.If I can't drive,I don't go My goodness!! I’m sure we were on the same flights several times! I also lived in Colorado Springs, retired in 2005. My travels started in 1972, similar hectic schedules and destinations. Did you ever run into a Dr. Morgenthayer (phonetic spelling) on your trips? Not me but the most prolific traveler ever ... puts us to shame. He was research director for Martin Marietta. Knew half the people on each flight . If Martin Marietta had experiments on Underground Nuclear test . I probably ran into him.Usual flights were Sunday afternoon and Friday morning return.While in Albuquerque we flew charted with Ross Aviation. Early on it was a F27 Fairchild. Sometimes all the way to Desert Rock airstrip at Mercury Nevada.Then Southwest Air lines was charted for a few years. I worked for Kaman Sciences, bought out by ITT in 1999. A lot of Times when flights were not available from COS to LV,we flew little turbo props to Denver and left from there. Those summer monsoons sure bounced us around.
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If God wanted you to walk and carry things on your back, He would not have invented stirrups and pack saddles
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Wife is flying to Vegas today.
Her recent travels have convinced her sho isn't nearly as interested in a vacation as she once was. The hordes of people and the incompetence of the airlines combined with everything else has made it miserable. I drive just about everywhere I go with few exceptions any more.
I have always disliked being on someone else's schedule. Now with the lack of self-awareness amongst people and crappy behavior, I can do without.
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Thought to get down to America these days without getting on an Al tube.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
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I'm always amazed how the herd needs to stand up the instant the wheels stop turning. And how they have to have the BIGGEST carryon, which they are too weak to handle safely. Oh, and turn on the PHONE! JFC.
Up hills slow,
Down hills fast
Tonnage first and
Safety last.
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From about 1969 until 1993, I flew about 3 months out of every year, every Sunday or Monday and every Friday between Colorado Springs and Las Vegas , Denver and Las Vegas, or Albuquerque and Las with the rest of the year an occasional flights to DC,San Francisco,Seattle, London or Paris. I retired in 2003, and except for two to Pittsburgh and one to Ft. Lauderdale and returns I have not been on a plane since.If I can't drive,I don't go My goodness!! I’m sure we were on the same flights several times! I also lived in Colorado Springs, retired in 2005. My travels started in 1972, similar hectic schedules and destinations. Did you ever run into a Dr. Morgenthayer (phonetic spelling) on your trips? Not me but the most prolific traveler ever ... puts us to shame. He was research director for Martin Marietta. Knew half the people on each flight . If Martin Marietta had experiments on Underground Nuclear test . I probably ran into him.Usual flights were Sunday afternoon and Friday morning return.While in Albuquerque we flew charted with Ross Aviation. Early on it was a F27 Fairchild. Sometimes all the way to Desert Rock airstrip at Mercury Nevada.Then Southwest Air lines was charted for a few years. I worked for Kaman Sciences, bought out by ITT in 1999. A lot of Times when flights were not available from COS to LV,we flew little turbo props to Denver and left from there. Those summer monsoons sure bounced us around. Ah! I knew a couple people there! Al Bridges, Don Stribling (later at Science Applications), Don Bryce, Randy Wolff, a couple others that went to Mitre Corp. Kaman also made a good neutron generator didn’t they? Oh yeah, just remembered a couple more ... Dean Jewell and Herb Hollister who was involved with the Nevada testing you referred too.
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51 and never flew.
Read this, hear the goings on on the news, hear of friends experiences,
And really never want to fly.
Don't like people, hate crowds, hate being crowded, don't like being cramped.
A tour bus gets my knee to hurting in an hour or two. Same with stadium seating.
Guys at work love to fly. Good for them.
My wife does too, hope to never let her convince me to try it.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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I'm always amazed how the herd needs to stand up the instant the wheels stop turning. And how they have to have the BIGGEST carryon, which they are too weak to handle safely. Oh, and turn on the PHONE! JFC. If I'm sitting by the aisle, I'll stand up when we stop just so the numbnuts that stand in the aisle don't keep beating me with all the crap they've got in their hands. Otherwise, I stay put. Your carry on comment is spot on. It's always the tiniest, oldest women that seem to have the heaviest bags. There is no way for them to lift it, so they look around and look helpless (which they are) until someone volunteers to help them. Even worse, is if they are traveling with their elderly husband and he insists on trying to lift the thing into the overhead. I'm always amazed that more of them don't end up crushed underneath the behemoth bags they carry.
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I wouldn't voluntarily fly anywhere today.
The whole industry has been a goat fugk for years and COVIDIOTS managed to make it worse.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Ah! I knew a couple people there! Al Bridges, Don Stribling (later at Science Applications), Don Bryce, Randy Wolff, a couple others that went to Mitre Corp. Kaman also made a good neutron generator didn’t they? Oh yeah, just remembered a couple more ... Dean Jewell and Herb Hollister who was involved with the Nevada testing you referred too.
I worked directly for Herb Hollister when I hired on. Later days, Don Bryce.Things went to pot when ITT took over
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If God wanted you to walk and carry things on your back, He would not have invented stirrups and pack saddles
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Just think
One notch above Andre’3000 and Big-Boi the baggage handlers
the ground crew and maintenance personnel, 😃
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I'm still stuck on a lady in her 50's described as "old"... I'm 72 - and I said- mentally. She was gone.... 
The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
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Haven't been on a plane in 20 years and have no intention of ever doing it again.
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People wouldn't bring so much carry on luggage if the airlines would have competent baggage service. Who wants to stand around for 45 minutes in some dirty airport after an hour flight? Alaska Aiirines has a 20 minute guarantee. Mostly they make it. I own stock....:)
The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
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People wouldn't bring so much carry on luggage if the airlines would have competent baggage service. Who wants to stand around for 45 minutes in some dirty airport after an hour flight? Watch the handlers load planes. Anything that even remotely appears to be hobby/fun type equipment gets bashed on purpose. Skis and golf-clubs being the easiest to ID from a distance through a window. Rifle cases rate pretty high too! Hey now- I worked ramp for 4 years.... 2010-2014, Kotzebue AK. I took good care of rifle cases. The rest were throw toys in the hold.... a matter of expediency. Plan accordingly. TSA took my hand-balm this trip out of my check-on.. Devils club and hemp oil. 'Spossed to help for a couple fingers with arthritis/tendinitus- only had it for 2 days, so who knows? $40 for a tin about a half-size of a snuff container. Bastids!
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The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
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On a flight out of India the woman next to me didn't know to use the seatbelt. Then she used the restroom and couldn't figure out how to open the door to get out. I was thinking she must of spent her whole life living in a shack.
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People wouldn't bring so much carry on luggage if the airlines would have competent baggage service. Who wants to stand around for 45 minutes in some dirty airport after an hour flight? Watch the handlers load planes. Anything that even remotely appears to be hobby/fun type equipment gets bashed on purpose. Skis and golf-clubs being the easiest to ID from a distance through a window. Rifle cases rate pretty high too! Hey now- I worked ramp for 4 years.... 2010-2014, Kotzebue AK. I took good care of rifle cases. The rest were throw toys in the hold.... a matter of expediency. Plan accordingly. TSA took my hand-balm this trip out of my check-on.. Devils club and hemp oil. 'Spossed to help for a couple fingers with arthritis/tendinitus- only had it for 2 days, so who knows? $40 for a tin about a half-size of a snuff container. Bastids! We’re them bastards arthritic? They ‘splain why?
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