{"id":721,"date":"2001-11-20T18:10:20","date_gmt":"2001-11-20T23:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=721"},"modified":"2001-11-20T18:10:20","modified_gmt":"2001-11-20T23:10:20","slug":"speaking_of_air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/20\/speaking_of_air.html","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of air travel …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Netsloth got caught in the fall-out of the Atlanta mess. Read<\/a> the (in retrospect — like, maybe, five years from now) hilarity that ensued, and why Delta Sucks. The post following<\/a> has his interchange of e-mail with Delta, in which they prove the hypothesis.<\/p>\n

As I note in the comments, it’s intersting that the phrase “carriers suck” applies both to telcos and to airlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Netsloth got caught in the fall-out of the Atlanta mess. Read the (in retrospect — like, maybe, five years from now) hilarity that ensued, and why Delta Sucks. The post…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeland-security","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1638,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/12\/02\/airport_securit.html","url_meta":{"origin":721,"position":0},"title":"Airport Security Kills Kenny … Film At 11.","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 2-Dec-01 2:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"South Park took on airport security at DIA. Not surprisingly, hilarity ensued....","rel":"","context":"In "Homeland Security"","block_context":{"text":"Homeland Security","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/homeland-security"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2024,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/03\/25\/so_easy_to_use.html","url_meta":{"origin":721,"position":1},"title":"So easy to use, no wonder it’s Number 1!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 25-Mar-02 3:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"When AOL merged with Time-Warner, everyone in the conglomerate's various divisions was told they had to use AOL for their business e-mail. Hilarity ensued. ... [M]anagement got months of complaints...","rel":"","context":"In "Hi-Tech"","block_context":{"text":"Hi-Tech","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/hi-tech"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":943,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/31\/halloween_fun.html","url_meta":{"origin":721,"position":2},"title":"Halloween Fun","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 31-Oct-01 8:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Last year we had Katherine (five months old) in the obligatory Pumpkin costume. Propped up on the bed, balance the cap, snap the shot. This year ... Winged Unicorn. (Or,...","rel":"","context":"In "Parenting"","block_context":{"text":"Parenting","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/personal\/parenting"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2327,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/11\/turnabout_is_fu.html","url_meta":{"origin":721,"position":3},"title":"Turnabout is fun play","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 11-Jul-02 9:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"Last fall, Margie and Katherine and I braved the unfriendly skies to go down to Disneyworld, so that I could participate in the Gartner Group shindig down there. Check out...","rel":"","context":"In "Disney\/Pixar"","block_context":{"text":"Disney\/Pixar","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/disney"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2644,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/05\/23\/no_more_teacher.html","url_meta":{"origin":721,"position":4},"title":"No more teacher’s dirty looks","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 23-May-02 2:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There's a new variation on the old \"person makes an off-hand comment not realizing that the microphone is on.\" In Britain, a teacher proctoring (or, as the BBC puts it,...","rel":"","context":"In "Hi-Tech"","block_context":{"text":"Hi-Tech","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/hi-tech"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13367,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/11\/anyone_for_a_passengers_b.html","url_meta":{"origin":721,"position":5},"title":"Anyone for a Passengers Bill of Rights yet?","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 11-Jan-09 5:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Airlines and airports breathed a sigh of relief when a federal task force on the execrable way they treat passengers when something goes wrong schedule-wise, as the panel only had...","rel":"","context":"In "Travel"","block_context":{"text":"Travel","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/travel"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}