On 21 May 2007 06:08:06 -0700, me wrote:
>On May 21, 1:33 am, m...@privacy.net (Mister Bartlett) wrote:
>> Listening to announcements at Schiphol at the weekend, I began to wonder
>> - they threaten that if you're not at the gate pronto they'll off-load
>> your luggage - but how? It seems to me that the airline has only the
>> haziest idea of where your bags are at any given moment, so the idea of
>> them quickly locating your suitcase in the plane hold and tossing it
>> onto the tarmac seems a bit far-fetched.
>>
>> Or am I missing something.
>
> Well, you're not exactly missing anything but it does kind of
>paint the larger picture of what is going on. A relative of mine
>works
>in ground operations for a major airline. I was visiting with them
>at the airport on my way over seas. I made some mention of
>wanting to get to the gate as I understood that they closed the
>gate for international flights earlier than domestic. He made the
>comment that there was little worry. The airline would raise heaven
>and earth to find me and put me on the plane as that would be
>easier than finding my luggage and removing it.
>
> The flip side I'm sure is that you've now marked oneself as
>fairyl unpopular with the airline, with all the potential side effects
>thereof.
The mark of any regular business class KLM customer.
The management of KLM don't give a flying XXXX about passengers opinions or bad
publicity.
A group by coincidence calling itself KLM, representing tall Dutch people (males
over 190cm and females over 180 cm) was refused a meeting with KLM management to
discuss surcharging for more leg room. There are 850,000 tall people in the
Netherlands.
--
Martin
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