A&E orders more ‘Airline’, second season to premiere this summer
Why can’t I stop watching this show? It’s bad enough I spend countless hours on end in airports and airplanes jetting across the country… now it invades my home.
It’s fascinating. People truly are stupid, and they’re not afraid to show it on TV.
Maybe it’s because I do travel so much, but for some reason, I’m rarely cheering on the screaming passenger… I always want Southwest to win…. and I don’t even fly Southwest. Is it true people don’t realize how much of an ASS they are being when things aren’t going their way and they start screaming about it?
Example, I just watched an episode where Southwest, by some miracle, managed to overbook a flight by 53 seats. 53 seats? Yeah, I’d be pissed too… but I wouldn’t be as demanding about it as some folks were. One customer demanded a seat on that particular flight because he booked his seats 9 months ago… Who books that far in advance? I’m thinking that’s bull. Always remember, never lie to an airline employee… they have your entire customer history on that computer screen in front of them. Every flight you’ve ever taken since you were knee high to a grasshopper.
Another example, another episode where Chicago’s Midway got snowed in… all the planes that were on the ground either took off before the ice came, or were grounded…. people were demanding that Southwest let them get on a plane? And just where is Southwest gonna get this plane? Pull it out of their nether regions? I can just see it now, “Yes ma’am, let me squat on the tarmac and squeeze out an airplane just for you, and while I’m at it, let me play God and melt the ice off the runway too”. C’mon people, the airlines can’t control the weather. And if they have no planes, they have no planes… you ain’t gettin’ to Florida on a broomstick.
The best example is this woman who is flying back from her wedding… Southwest managed to RUN OVER… yes, I said RUN OVER her garment bag carrying her wedding dress. Not only did a baggage tug RUN OVER the garment bag, but it DRAGGED it several tens of feet before stopping. The bag was destroyed, and the dress, while it didn’t look torn, was obviously RUN OVER with the big TIRE MARKS across the front of the dress. To Southwest’s credit, the employee was very apologetic and wanted to make it right, but the customer was so pissed, first she was bitching and yelling at the poor employee and then she was saying crazy stuff like “That dress is priceless, you can’t replace it, blah blah….” That’s a load of bull. They CAN replace it… they’re Southwest…. tell them to DIG DEEP baby, because that mistake is gonna cost ‘em. I’d tell them the dress was like two grand or something, even if was a 50 dollar special at WalMart.
One gripe I do have about airline policy…. why is it that I can’t fly if I’m drunk? It’s not like I’m behind the wheel of a car or anything, the pilot’s my designated driver. If I sit in an airport bar and get blitzed, you’ll deny me boarding… but if I drink just a little, and then use that free alcohol in first class to get blitzed, that’s okay, right? Hmmm… What if I get blitzed quietly, and you don’t know about it…. maybe I put some Altoids in my mouth right before I board…. Would you deny me boarding then? I’d like to know just how far this no drunks policy goes…. I may have to research this… yes.
I think I’m also watching this show to see if I can learn how to get involuntarily bumped… I could use the cash. Not voluntarily bumped now… I don’t want a stupid flight voucher. I want COLD HARD AMERICAN CURRENCY. Show me the money.
I’ll probably never get bumped though, mainly because everywhere we fly, my company tends to choose AirTran… and usually I wind up in first class… and we’re a Corporate Customer… so AirTran loves us. I did get bumped one time… kinda…. they managed to book three passengers into the same seat. Not quite sure how they expected that to happen… maybe, if one of the other passengers had been cute and female, I’d allow her to sit in my lap. 
I digress. There was only one other available seat on the flight, and since, as usual, my company spends as close to nothing as possible on our tickets, I got the bump… to the next flight, which took off less than two hours later (which doesn’t qualify for free bump gifts, dammit). But AirTran DID give me a bunch of free biz-class upgrades for my “inconveinience”. All it did was get me home two hours later, which was no big deal, since it qualified me for an extra $15 in per diem money that day…. so, all in all, I made out pretty good that day.
Well, I’ve digressed a loooong way from the original topic…. why do I watch this Airline show? Even more frightening, why do I have TiVO recording it so I don’t miss an episode? Truly strange behavior on my part….
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