Something Horrible In the Air
Written: Dec 07 '07
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Pros: You don't die and your luggage shows up
Cons: Lousy food, psychotic employees.
The Bottom Line: My recommendation? FIND ANOTHER WAY!!!
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| Darkmistress's Full Review: Continental Airlines |
Cleveland is a Continental hub. My husband and I hail from near Cleveland. Ipso facto, we have to fly Continental all too often. Okay, to be honest, twice is too often. I'm pretty sure that somewhere in their employee breakroom, probably near the door, is a sign that says, "Make sure you annoy the customers as much as possible."
We had one good flight. We happened to be flying San Francisco to Cleveland on Halloween. Nobody flies on Halloween. We got on and settled into our seats near the front of the plane, not yet realizing that no one flies on Halloween, and discovered that there was a crying baby about 2 rows in front of us. We asked to be moved and the attendant laughed and told us to find a seat. There were 14 passengers on the enter flight, 7 first class, 7 in steerage. The attendant who had the back of the plane greeted us with a goofy grin and told us we could sit anywhere we wanted. It was one of those dream flights you hear about, but are never on. Let me tell you, it's not an urban legend, I was on one. Anyway, we stretched out on a row of seats each and conked out for a while. At meal time, our very happy flight attendant brought us these little bagged meals, cold sandwich, an apple and a tiny packet of M&Ms. If I hadn't been on a mostly empty plane the cheap-o meal would have bothered me (and it did later.) That flight was great, mostly because there was no one on it.
Then we returned to Korea via San Francisco and the real Continental stood up. First, we arranged out seats asking to be seated together. It seemed pretty obvious to us. We were early to the gate as usual, we appeared together, we weren't rude or difficult, no brainer right? When we got to the gate and checked out tickets we discovered that we had been seated in seat B rows 31 and 32. Together if you think one in front of the other is together. We asked at the gate if they could do something about it and they assured us that the flight attendants could take care of it. The flight attendants said there was nothing they could do and it should have been changed at the gate. They invited us to negotiate with our seat mates. Our friendly seat mates refused. I seriously considered working on my worst attack of motion sickness to date, but my Dramamine was working too well. The food was the same crummy bagged deal from before only somehow it tasted worse considering that my husband was sitting one row in front of me and I was stuck in the middle of a row between 2 strangers because the ticket agent decided to be evil.
However, I must say that my luggage appeared where it was supposed to.
I've taken a couple of flights on Continental over the years, but that Halloween trip clouded my mind temporarily. Now I'm trying to figure out how I can get back to North East Ohio without using Continental and without adding hours to my flight time. When, oh when will transporter technology be reliable?
Recommended:
No
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