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I'm not meaning to be critical or dismissive, but my intuition tells me that we may be experiencing a culture change. And that the idea of posh/elegant/luxurious airliner travel will seem quaint in ten years: fuel costs, global warming (I was going to abbreviate global warming as gw, but that implies george w.), recession, the continued divergence between the haves and have nots. Something tells me that luxury travel will be in vljs or executive jets and the rest will be Southwest/airtran/jetblue travel at best.

A good flight to asia will be one where you didn't have to bring your own food and you're confident that you didn't pick up a staph infection and avoided deep vein thrombosis and were able to conduct business one day after you arrived. ......ok, I guess I'm debbie downer.
 
Yes, you are. The culture change is something that's been discussed to death on here, not just the industry itself, but in particular the extreme at this airline. I think this thread is a light hearted one for employees of US Airways... not all of the listed things are 'posh', just past products, places and in-jokes from US Airways.
 
From a customer's point of view......

Piedmont Wings with the metal locking safety-pin style clasp in the back.

Free deck of Piedmont Playing Cards (though the design on the Ozark Airlines was way cooler)

A whole can of coke without asking

A complimentary stack of magazines (in plastic binders) in the bulkhead
 
In 98-01 we were doing hot towels to Europe in Coach. Wine was complimentery. Everyone in Coach Class got menus. To this day I get these disgusted looks to and from Europe when charging for wine or spirits. Tacky really. Yeah yeah yeah you save a few pennies but trust me these people remember the next time. If the fare is the same or within the same range, I would book to another airline too!
Just so sick to see how we lost track of taking decent care of our customers. We will spend 80 million to save 3 dimes but when it comes to making an impression managment is tighter than a Ministers wife's girdle going to an all you can eat pancake buffet!
 
a real airline.
😱 😱 :shock: AMEN...the original post said it all. Boy and Boy, those were the days. I'm just grateful I was around for them. America West could learn HUGE lessons from those days and the fantastic history of what an airline "could and should be ".....
 
Remember the wine professor in Envoy training? He was kind of mean but I learned a lot about wine. I also remember the Shuttle 727 with the card table and gold plated lavs! Boy Trump was something else.
The only thing I didn't like was that FOX News mess. Makes my blood boil watching that journalistic garbage. Glad they are poof be gone from the plane. I see it at the gym and feel like I just took two spoonfuls of Ipecac Syrup.
 
24F seats on the 757
The "G" spot on the 767
"That polished look"
Silver service
The United merger
The aisle strap on the DC-9
Carrying the P&P at all times while on probation
LAS-PHL redeye on the 737-300
PHL-LAX on the 300
737-400 EOW
the last DC-9 flight
PHL-MIA-PHL on the 330
319/320 training in CLT
 
DC9 Drivers carrying their bags with their hands , " I'll never get those stupid bags with wheels"
Only The new 737-300 drivers ( Quiche wagon) wheeled their bags around. What a bunch of wimps.

wopr21
 
Jeez I had about forgotten that strap on the MD80/DC9. During an emergency that was suppose to what? Keep people off your butt while you were in the bowels of the tail messing with a catwalk, jettison the tailcone and kicking in some escape plate? After all that you are to run back and unhook the strap to let people out. LOL, always made me chuckle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLFJcA3Hlgo
 
Piano bar downstairs on the L-1011
Walking from parking to operations in SAN
Everyone had their own nickname in OPS
Beer at Lucy's
Circling inside Crater Lake, below the tops of the hills and hearing the kids "oohs and aahs"
Christmas Day, surfing in the morning, skiing in the afternoon
Getting beeped as reserve while surfing
Going to work (fly) by riding a bicycle
Watching braggarts sweat shooting snowy, windy approaches into Bellingham.
Nice landings on the MD-80
Smell of apple cider on a crisp morning in Yakima
Standup overnights in Concord
ATC naming an intersection after a chief pilot killed in a "security incident"
Chocolate chip cookies at the hotel in Monterrey
Morning runs anywhere in Oregon, especially in winter
Captain Ike and the Ike'ttes
 
No cellphones
No bottled water
No crew roller bags

And the LAX crewroom code was 040988
 

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