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Apr 22, 2012, 3:47 PM

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What a terrible airline

Checked in at Orlando with wife and three young children and the disinterested AA woman allocated the seats all over the cabin, couldn't have put the family further apart individually if she'd tried. Seat screens on two of the seats didn't work, leg room non existent and staff aged and surly, reminded me o English buses. B.A. Flight on outgoing trip was fine AA obviously on a mission to free up seats by losing customers, I certainly won't use them again they are a shambles.

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