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White House pushing for answers to airline industry woes {Gadling}
Nov 14th 2009 9:20PM Increasingly cramped? Airline seats have been the same width since 1958. If "personal space" had a 5 year moving average, it would be absolutely flat.
Galley Gossip: A question about why flight attendants are fat, old, grumpy, lazy and ugly {Gadling}
Feb 9th 2009 11:08AM Perhaps if the USA didn't have laws like those banning sexism, age-based hiring, and weight standards, we could have "throwback" employment laws too. The time of sex in the aisles is gone. Being an FA is a profession, just like any other for which there is constant training and emphasis on service delivery. Too bad that "Big Daddy" is confusing the airplane with a Hooters.
I'm a red-blooded American male, but I would hate to think of the consequences to my family if those same foreign employment laws applied to me or my wife. Would you get fired for gaining 20 pounds, or even being married? Those were the old "throwback" laws that existed in the 1970's here. I'd much rather have a professional workforce than a ditz parade down the aisle.
Now if you want to talk about service delivery and onboard experience, sure the foreign carriers have the US beat. But remember that most are state-sponsored and are an extension of the country's tourism board. Coupled with discriminatory hiring practices, well yes it's easier to have throwback standards.
-Signed,
A UA dispatcher who is glad to work with some of the finest in the industry.
United Airlines secretly raises ticket change fees {Gadling}
Apr 24th 2008 8:45AM Can we stop with the "screwed" commentary? This fee is completely avoidable, just don't change your ticket. Also UA offers same-day standby. Have a flight at 5pm, but your meetings are done by noon? You can standby, for free, for an earlier flight, while having the original 5pm flight as a guarantee.
Vista beats OS X? Really? {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Apr 9th 2008 7:23PM I really want a Mac. I really do. But right now I am leaning toward a 3.0 Ghz HP desktop with a 22" LCD. Here's why:
• Drivers. One of the things I want my new computer to do is 3D graphics simulation. It's a well known fact that the Radeon HD card in the iMacs is hobbled by poor drivers. I am hoping that Apple will upgrade to Nvidia cards in the iMacs, like the Mac Books.
• HDMI. I want to output my computer's screen to my plasma via HDMI, and the PC has that (with 5.1 sound, I might add). iMac does not. At least, not easily (iMac uses a DVI plug with no sound).
• 3.0 Ghz. No iMac is at 3.0 Ghz yet, and that's a 20% increase over the base 2.4 Ghz.
• Price. Yeah I said it... Once I get MS Office ($129), that is less than iWork ($79), Parallels, and Windows XP for Parallels.
I plan on getting Vista 64-bit, since that is the way things are headed, and I have checked about 64-bit drivers and all apps have them available. I really wish that iMac could do the above things... Please Apple, upgrade the iMac to 2.8 Ghz base model with Nvidia graphics and an HDMI port. I'll buy in a heartbeat if that was the case.
