[mars6423]

joy, with the competition with alaska, not to many airlines will want to fly to alaska since there isnt a high enough demand, it is more suitable for 1 or 2 airlines to fly out of there, and airlines are cutting routes now (US Air is cutting 1000jobs and stopping some routes in early 2010)

and with travel within alaska competition wouldnt work, there isnt a market there for other carriers

there are gonna be bag fees with the majority of US airlines these days, its just something that people are going to deal with (hopefully when they are healthy as a business they will stop those fees)

other than southwest and maybe a few other airlines change fees are expensive, a deterant from things being changed.....$100 is lower than many other airlines who charge $150 so its expensive and annoying but at least its less than others

when i flew from van-seatle-newark a few years ago from a ski trip i was scheduled to fly with continental (the horizon flight from van-seatle prop plane had a tire explode on take off so we turned around and landed-for some reason they wouldnt let us off the plane due to fire safety yet no fire trucks arrived for 2 hours....so they flew us to seatle and rebooked us on alaskan) the flight attendants were not lazy and were actually very nice and brought around drinks and a meal

but if your flight is only an hour long you cannot expect much due to the accent and deccent, and the amount of time it takes to serve people

it would be positive for everyone if every airline would allow standby passangers to board the earlier flight once every ticketed passenger was in their seats, and than go in order who arrived first for standby etc