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Five ways to get the person in the seat next to you to stop talking {Gadling}
Nov 25th 2009 9:39AM An eye mask is also a helpful "leave me alone" prop.
That said--and I really, really do dislike talking to people on planes--I also know this has at times cost me opportunities to talk to people I should have talked to. On a cross-country flight earlier this year, my persistent seat-mate, an elderly gentleman, ignored all my efforts and--I kid you not--even at one point read aloud from a PDF I had open on my laptop.
What he read prompted him to ask a question which within two more questions revealed that he was actually the father of one of my friends. He turned out to be a very interesting guy and I wished I'd had more than the last twenty minutes of the flight to talk to him.
To be honest, however, I haven't really learned my lesson. I still pop in the ear buds, open the book, and pull on my best "entranced by the scenery out the window" look.
Southwest Airlines offers early boarding for $10 {Gadling}
Sep 3rd 2009 9:14AM Or....you can just check-in online 24 hours before your flight which will put you in the A group and you'll board early for free.
Delay grounds entire airline for a month {Gadling}
Jul 6th 2009 1:07PM Jet America--brought to you by the same fine folks who brought us SkyBus a couple years ago. The Sykbus that let passengers take off on flights when it knew it was moments from shutting operations, stranding these passengers all over the US, and whose employees found out they no longer had jobs when they showed up for work and couldn't get in. The SkyBus that declared bankruptcy and thus never had to refund any of the money it'd received on unused tickets, preferring to let the credit card companies swallow the cost (which if my experience was any guide, they did unwillingly and only after la long fight). Does JetAmerica's "9 seats on each flight for $9" sound familiar? SkyBus had "10 seats on each flight for $10."
I'm really not a cynical person, but it strikes me as ironic and a little bit criminal that the same people who demonstrated they could not run a low-cost carrier with Columbus, Ohio as a base, and whose failure to do so left investors holding a very empty bag (not to mention a fleet of 737's), not to mention employees and passengers, are turning around and doing the same thing in South Bend, Toledo and Lansing. Same model, same region. Who invests in this kind of thing with that track record? Baffling.
