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Airline Sympathizer???

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Jul 1, 2009, 1:56 PM

bah humbug bah humbug is offline

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Airline Sympathizer???

Why are people labled "airline sympathizer" just because they have common sense and can see through some of these trumped up, over the top "airline complaints" and have very logical explanations as to why many things that passengers are complaining about happen.

We all read these complaints and know in more cases than not there is more to the story.

What passengers don't seem to understand is that you can go under any airline and read the same complaints that are on all the othere airlines.
Bag fee's, delayed and cancelled flights, theft, poor customer service......the list goes on and on.
It is the same with every airline, there is always going to be someone who is not happy because the person next to them got two bags of pretzels, and they only got one, so let me go and spread the word to never fly this airline again....

BAH HUMBUG!!!!

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