[justme]

PHXflyer, curious about something... self admittedly you are not nor have you ever been an airline employee, yet you state specific airline practices as if you know from personal experience that they are fact, when in actuality they are not. What sort of morons do you think the rest of us are that we should believe everything you write as fact and gospel. This time you are the one that needs to do the research before you go posting half-truths. One. Quoting PHXflyer: "Delta also blocks almost half the seats on any aircraft for elites and airport assignment." No airline, not even this horrific Delta you speak of, blocks more than 10 seats on any specific flight. Most airlines (Delta included, but they were not the ones who started the trend) have started charging more for bulkhead, aisle, exit rows, etc as "premium seats." Another possibility that the ill-willed PHX failed to mention is that similar seats are blocked so that persons with disabilities can be accomidated when special needs arise. Two. Quting PHXflyer: "Delta has four versions of the 757-200, six versions of the 767 and two versions of the 777." Wrong again, but the point is, how do you know? You've never worked for them and if you would have bothered to look it up you might've gotten it right. Delta, as found on delta.com, has 3 versions of the 757, 3 versions of the 767, and 2 versions of the 777.


On a separate note, since I already know that PHXflyer is going to attack me personally by saying my former posts, and by proxy then, this post are/is inaccurate, I will just halt that in its tracks by saying that while the information in previous said posts may not have matched what he/she found on the internet, Airtran did in fact lay off more than the 500 people PHXflyer suggests. I personally know former employees of Airtran and know for a fact that there were significant numbers of people that were laid off. Nowhere in my post did I say that Airtran shouldnt spend money on advertising, nor did I say that marketing needs to be cut before employees, I only submitted the notion of funding "stunts" may not be the best thing to do after you just laid off large numbers of people. The subject of using the lav that is in your class of cabin is in fact a current regulation, whether PHXflyer says it is or not. Since I was recently closely involved with security protocols of a major airline, I know that to be the case, unlike PHXflyer who, again by self admission, is not and never has been an airline employee. Who am I to believe? My security training or some random want-to-be know-it-all? Not to mention that I was not the first or only person that said the regulation was true, yet I was the only one that was attacked. Sorry to anyone who has read all of this when it's not related to you, I only wanted to highlight PHXflyer's lopsided opinions and own "half-truths."