{"id":3046,"date":"2007-10-12T14:38:21","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T14:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2007-10-12T14:38:21","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T14:38:21","slug":"american_airlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3046","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\/stories\/2007\/10\/11\/americanAirlinesRipoff.html\">Dave mentions his recent poor<\/a> experience with American Airlines.  I&#8217;ve had a number of those tight connections \/ run through the airport \/ arrive at gate \/ flight is closed \/ yet there is 5 or 10 minutes until departure time experiences.<br \/>\nHowever, I can recall two positive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aa.com\">AA<\/a> experiences:<Ul><\/p>\n<li>Extremely poor cabin conditions:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>I arrived at my middle seat (9E) for a redeye West Coast to Chicago flight only to find that my left seatmate (9D) was very, very big and had the armrest up while occupying some a portion of my seat.   The woman to my right in 9F had a cat under her legs&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote a letter to AA&#8217;s CEO (<a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?input-form=clusty-simple&#038;v%3Asources=webplus&#038;query=%22bob+crandall%22\">Bob Crandall<\/a>) and they promptly sent me my money back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li>Years later I flew through AA&#8217;s then hub in Nashville.  My in bound flight was delayed and I faced a very tight connection to the last Dallas\/Fort Worth plane of the evening.  I stood up to depart my plane when my name was called.  A bus drove me to the departing plane, just in time.    That will probably never happen again.<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also had many good experiences on United and Midwest Airlines.   Your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave mentions his recent poor experience with American Airlines. I&#8217;ve had a number of those tight connections \/ run through the airport \/ arrive at gate \/ flight is closed \/ yet there is 5 or 10 minutes until departure time experiences. However, I can recall two positive AA experiences: Extremely poor cabin conditions: I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}