No more UK flights for CJ

[cjsmith]

I'll get on a transatlantic plane without carry-on luggage when they pry it from my cold dead hands.

(Or when they pay me the full replacement price of my checked luggage when I board. On the unlikely chance I ever see it again, and on time too, I'll gladly refund the money... minus a modest handling charge. AND they must have at least three decent full-length novels in the passenger cabin for me, as that's how many I'll need.)

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[wooddragon.livejournal.com]

Not to mention business travelers (or square dance callers) without carry-on lap tops. Yeah, right, we'll check that for your oh-so-careful luggage handlers...

(Could be the end of the commercial airline industry as we know it...)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ayep - full replacement price and that includes the data!

I wonder if it could mean the birth of a new industry, as people coordinate FedEx drop off and pick up with their flights. "747 heavy, flight of two" -- one with the pax and one with the cargo!

I like the fly naked idea.

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I am trying to imagine the pressure against that no-laptops concept. I wonder how that will play out.

[eichin.livejournal.com]

First guess: AA and BA lose approximately all of the us/europe business traffic to airlines that go directly to other cities (lufthansa, icelandair, delta) - given the reaction to the last big UK ATC failure that I almost ended up in, many of these people rebooked *today's* flights on those other airlines...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Believable.