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Re: What happened to Eastern Airlines??? Posted on: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:30:31 PDT


"Charles Newman" wrote in message
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>
> "Bert Sweeney" wrote in message
> news:m3LXe.2037$3S3.1084@bignews4.bellsouth.net...
>> The wife and I want to go down to Disney World in December. Took the
>> kids
>> many times when they were growing up and had a lot of good times. We
> always
>> flew Eastern, the official airline of WDW. Now that we retired the wife
> and
>> I want to go see Mickey by ourselves. We want to fly the L-1011
>> Whisperliner because we know that is the quietest plane in the sky. It
> can
>> fly automatically without the need for pilots, it takes off and lands by
>> itself. They even got those little closets to hang up your jacket
>> between
>> the seats. I was looking in the phone book for the number to the Eastern
>> airlines reservations to book our tickets but had a hard time getting
>> through. One place I called I got a Cuban who couldn't speak English.
> When
>> I told him I wanted to book tickets to Orlando on Eastern he started
> yelling
>> something about "El Grandote" and Celia Cruz. Does anyone know what that
> is
>> all about?
>>
>> Anyone know the number to Eastern reservations???
>>
>>
>
> HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
>
> Looks like you got fooled by one of the "virtual
> airlines" for Flight Simulator. A lot of the Virtual
> Airlines have such real looking Websites that a
> lot of people contact them thinking they are
> a real world airline.
> Eastern is only a virtual airline in the Flight
> Simulator world. It has ONLY existed as a
> VA in flight simulator. A lot of people do
> get fooled. Several virtual airlines, including
> Polar Air, Trans International (formerly Jetstar
> VA), and several others are often contacted by
> people thinking they are a real world airline,
> trying to purchase tickets.
>
>

Except that Polar Air is real. Who's fooling who?



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