Your window is not your own
Written: May 17 '03
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Pros: They were cheap
Cons: Everything but the price
The Bottom Line: Bottom line is that sometimes, even price isn't worth what you endure in exchange.
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| humnbrd4g's Full Review: America West |
You may pay for a seat, and you may have a window seat, but you do not control it!
I just returned from a cross-country trip using this airline. Never again! They offer delayed planes and rude personnel at the gates. Once you're on board, you will be crammed into the closest seats anywhere. You can't even bend over to look in your bags because your head hits the seat in front of you.
Once the plane takes off, these cool little TV screens pop down from the overheads and you get to view the safety message on the screen instead of in person. Then the TVs show neat little calming sceens... and then they hit you for the bucks. $5 for rental of the headsets to listen to the movie. My husband and I were hoping to catch up on some sleep since it was a nightime flight, but the TVs came on and the cabin lit up. Sleep was impossible.
The flight attendants reminded the coach passengers repeatedly that the bathrooms in first class are for those passengers only and the rest are to use the ones in back, how special. We weren't given anything to eat or drink, even though we were flying from Las Vegas to Atlanta.
On the flight home, the flight attendant Carrie rudely told me to close my window shade because my window was causing a glare on the TV screen of the woman across the aisle from me. I slammed it shut and began fuming at the rudeness, like her glare is my problem. I got so angry I slammed the shade back up and went back to watching the clouds, my enjoyment on flights. It also helps me battle the nausea that comes with bumpy rides, which America West invented. But nope, my window is not my own apparently. I was again told to lower it. We went through this 3 times as I kept raising it and kept getting told to lower it. I was so angry that as I left the plane and Carrie told me thank you and fly again, I snorted laughter in her face and said "never again." It left me so angry I found myself hunting down the woman who was watching the movie so I could slap her around. I am not a violent person at all, but this airline aggravated me to the point of wanting to do physical harm to another passenger!
I unfortunately had another flight to catch, and it was America West. This one was from Phoenix to Portland Oregon. This time the male flight attendant looked right at me, and handed double the nuts to the girl in front and walked right past me. He did this with the drinks as well. I was completely ignored and treated as if I was invisible.
Cheap tickets, you bet. Good service, not at all. Fair service, not at all. The crappiest low down scruddy service you can scrape off the bottom of the sewer well, you bet!
Recommended:
No
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