It was cheaper to do it that way.. the new owner who was paying for the expenses didn't want to fork out extra money for $299 one way + rental car + one way charge.. Baha -----Original Message----- From: The Airline List [mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David MR Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 11:27 AM To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: American Airlines To Take Rear Galleys From Some Planes-WP Why didn't you just rent a car in Marion and drive to St. Louis? It's only about 120 miles (3-3.5 hours) trip and you could have flown Southwest to Seattle. David R -------------- Original message -------------- From: Bahadir Acuner <bahadiracuner@xxxxxxxxx> > Flew AA after almost 10 years for the first time last weekend > MWA-STL-DFW-SEA. > > I am so glad that I am sticking with United. Here are highlights of my trip: > > > - I tried the purchase ticket through their reservation phone number as I > had no internet access. I called them Saturday night, Sunday morning for the > Sunday afternoon 2:20 pm flight from MWA. In both cases AA didn't issue the > tickets. I eventually purchased the ticket online at the FBO where the plane > I was delivering to its new owner was parked. The print out said "purchased" > on it but AA still charged me $15 per ticket because their reservation > system still didn't issue the ticket. > > I fly mostly United, occasionally Southwest and Alaska group, none of these > carriers have this kind of BS. > > - The reservation agent on the phone wouldn't sell me MWA-STL-DFW-SEA and > said "Why would you want to add another leg?. You can leave 4 hrs later and > catch the 8:20 pm STL-SEA non-stop. It doesn't make sense to me".. This was > the first time I was judged by a res agent. I tried to expain the situation > to her that we flew for 3 days in a small aircraft and we just wanted to get > back home and we were airplane nuts , we wouldn't mind flying an extra leg. > Her response was "it still doesn't make sense to me".. I just hung up on > her.. > > - I missed the MDs. I love these airplanes. We were in row #24 in an MD82 > and it was still a lot more quite than an aircraft with engines under the > wings. > > - DFW-SEA flight was 4 hrs and 10 minutes. The food they served was crAAppy > snAAcks, extremely unhealthy stuff. In United you can buy salad, wraps, etc. > for a flight this long.. The service level in AA is nothing but crAAp. > The airplane was an ex TWA 757, you could see it from the engines and > catering carts. > > - they had one movie that they charged $2 for the headset for. > > - No MRTC, everything is LRTC now. Southwest had more room in their 737s > compared to AA's 757s. Heck, the Archer I delivered from SEA to MWA had more > room compared to any airliners. > > Baha