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It just gets worse every time I fly. And U.S. Air well and truly SUCKS!!
Flew from Charlotte, NC to Washington and then home. I was near the back on a CRJ-200 on the first leg. A guy was having trouble getting something in the overhead bin. Cabin crew member said, "You'll have to find a place up front for it" and stood back and watched him struggle through the isle full of people, opening every bin until he found some room. Remember when the crew was actually helpful? Remember when they and said things like, "Let me find a place for that for you"?
Second leg started from Dulles. They had to bus us to our plane - another CRJ-200. They left the bus doors open while 40 folks or so got aboard, and the bus driver struck up a conversation with the driver of the bus behind us and ignored us. It was 12 degrees F outside. Someone got off and yelled at him to close the doors, so he did, and turned the heater up on high. In 10 minutes it was hot, hot, roasting in the bus and no one could get the doors open. One guy had the emergency hammer out and was about to bust the glass when a bus driver saw him and opened the door and started yelling at him. We passengers were so pissed off at him that the driver was fearing for his life in about .05 seconds. One of the people on board was a U.S. Air cockpit crew and he got off and chewed the driver a new azzhole, talking about "our" responsibility to pay attention to and care for "our" passengers.
Got on the plane and there were half a dozen empty seats in the mid-back area. We sat. And sat. And sat while the pilot and cabin attendant looked at papers and talked. Finally the cabin lady called the front row of passengers to attention and said one of them was going to have to move to the back to balance the airplane. All four of them just stared at her. I kind of don't blame them, because by now we were all thinking, "Really? Something ELSE you can't do right?" They just stared and eventually the cabin lady said, "Either one of you moves back or the plane stays here." The smallest (least effective) guy of the bunch volunteered to move and the passengers applauded and cheered him. Someone threw a wadded napkin at one of the three douches. We finally took off.
I've been in some small airports in some fairly small third world countries that were run better than U.S. Air's operation. Did I mention - U.S. Air SUCKS!!!