I would be more than displeased if I was on the 2nd plane and got kicked off so the first lot of disgruntled punters wouldn't have a 2 day plus stopover
http://www.smh.com.au/national/qanta...31-gtk7b5.html
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I would be more than displeased if I was on the 2nd plane and got kicked off so the first lot of disgruntled punters wouldn't have a 2 day plus stopover
http://www.smh.com.au/national/qanta...31-gtk7b5.html
Another good year for investing :-))
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Looks like another of AIR's competitors is getting bad publicity as well.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8806...-proper-update
Not a good look for the Qantas boss
I'm sure our Chris would have stayed until the very last stranded passenger was on their way home - yes
http://www.smh.com.au/national/qanta...31-gtk7b5.html
But good to hear that they found a quick solution to bring the Qantas CEO (who happened to be on the first plane) home for New Years eve:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel...-New-Years-Eve
Their clearly know how to treat important passengers and have their priorities right. I am sure the wait for the other passengers in Dubai is just so much more pleasant when knowing that the really important people got their flight home in time:D.
Hi Roger,
Good on you for reviewing your investment decisions and to use the outcome for some learning. That's the best way to capitalize on mishaps. I am currently in the same process (and can report that I made a bit of money this year with AIR ;), that's more than I can say about some other investments). Very useful process, and I might expand on that in the next couple of days (when I am finished ... today is more for the beach ...).
Hope your assessment where AIR is going is right - I still think it can go either way from here.
Anyway - happy and prosperous New Year to you and anybody else on sharetrader. Looking forward to plenty of educational discussions in 2017.
I hear you, but the reality is there is a priority order. EG, on AIR, if a flight is cancelled, the ground staff immediately allocate Gold Elites to the next flight (s) with seating available, followed by Gold, Silver, etc, before you even get to the counter. If you don't have a loyalty card, you are custard. This applies to most, if not all airlines.
I was on a cancelled flight out of Invercargill (and was GE at the time) and was flying with 2 colleagues who were 'custard class' This was my first ever cancelled flight whilst being GE, and I was not expecting to be treated any differently, so we all joined the queue to rebook. I was surprised to find I was already booked on next available, whilst my colleagues were 4 hours later.
As an aside, one of them had a young family to get home to, for me it didn't matter if I was late, so I offered to swap flights. The ground staff looked at me twice, but were happy to follow orders. In appreciation my colleague bought me a Powerball random dip, which struck first division and 26million powerball.:eek2:
Nah, didn't:p...... happy 2017 investing everyone:t_up:
I'll tell you another dirty little secret about cancelled flights.
Often the putting up stranded passengers in hotels and transport to and from are the responisibility of the ground handling contractor who is often bulk funded for this.
If the cancellations and accomdation costs during the contract period are below projections the contractor gets to trouser the funds. On the other hand if costs exceed projections the extra cost comes out of the contractors wallet. So if you are grounded due to a cancellation you are often at the mercy of a contractor motivated to minimise costs.
In one instance I was involved with a flight was cancelled and we were booked on an alternative flight at a nearby airport late at night. Unfortunately we were held up getting to this airport. Because the airline had a different ground handling contractor at each airport and there was no co-ordination between them they failed to hold the flight so we were stuck in a hotel overnight when a 15 or 20 minute delay to the plane could have got everone on board and happily on their way.
Boop boop de do
Marilyn
PS. Poor optics for the CEO of Queer and Nasty Airlines to be winging his way home while fellow passengers were still stranded. All customers are equal but not as worthy as their executives.