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Chieko
Member
11-20-2003
| Sunday, July 04, 2004 - 10:01 pm
This thread must have fallen into oblivion. I read a new season of Airline is starting tomorrow night on A&E.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Sunday, July 04, 2004 - 10:18 pm
Yup, looks like two new episodes at 9 and 9"50 pacific.
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Shelb724
Member
10-20-2002
| Monday, July 05, 2004 - 1:16 pm
i am so disappointed that this was it for this show. i was watching the marathon today on A&E and thought it was fascinating. even my daughter was watching it with me. the funniest was the penguins on the airplane. she loved that (just watching tv with my daughter who is 14 was wonderful too ). anyway, hopefully more people will post. this is a good show.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, July 05, 2004 - 1:26 pm
New season starts tonite, I think.
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Scorpiomoon
Member
06-06-2002
| Monday, July 05, 2004 - 2:23 pm
I watched a bit of the marathon. I was a devoted watcher of the first season. With the second season, they seemed to have polished it up a bit. But the scenerios are all the same. And I mean, all the same.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, July 05, 2004 - 6:45 pm
I hadn't watched too much of this show until the marathon today. It was too funny! I can't believe the amount of drunken people who don't think they are drunk. And the amount of people who are going to sue!
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Monday, July 05, 2004 - 8:09 pm
And the number of people who lose their tickets but don't think it's their fault, who think they should get preferential treatment over the 20 other people on stand-by, or who show up 3 minutes before the plane is supposed to take off. Southwest does seem to overbook a heck of a lot of flights, too. :-)
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Sherbabe
Member
07-28-2002
| Monday, July 05, 2004 - 8:36 pm
as an old airline employee, i've seen it all. if the flight is late...people have a fit. if it is on time and they miss it by 1 minute, they have a fit. it just takes 1 person to start screaming and everyone joins in. if you like people watching, there is nothing like an airport. thank goodness, they stopped letting everyone and their brother go down to the gates.
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Jonnyzbabe
Member
03-12-2004
| Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 7:51 am
thank goodness, they stopped letting everyone and their brother go down to the gates. That is unless you have 2 kids that need to be escorted to THE SAME FLIGHT but require two adults (one who isn't LEGAL). Why are parents so stupid. The thing that really sucked was that she got her way in the end. I am so hooked on this show. I also enjoy the BBC version. I was bothered though that they let one drunk guy get in his car to drive home. Doesn't a camera crew have some legal responsibility to report illegal activity?
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Marej
Member
09-20-2002
| Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 11:10 am
Those people were very unhappy and acting badly; they have to sign releases, right? Now all their friends and bosses have seem them act badly.
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Horsinaroundtx
Member
07-13-2003
| Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 11:43 am
I imagine the camera crew might call the police or something, but not stop the guy, because it's still all about "good TV". It would be better TV if we saw the guy get busted before he left the parking lot. 
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 12:05 pm
The thing is, They don't think they were acting badly. They think they were right and acting in a perfectly reasonable manner. I suspect we don't see those people who behave badly and belatedly realize -- because they don't sign the release form. I wonder how many -- if any -- see their behavior in a different light after time passes and they see themselves on TV. As for their friends or bosses seeing them behave this way, again, I suspect it comes as no surprise. :-)
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Sweetmelissa04
Member
03-20-2004
| Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 4:45 pm
This show is the greatest. I have a good friend who works for TSA in Chicago and he has stories that are about as funny as this show. I do wonder about the over-booking. My husband and I have never had a problem with that, although we've never flown Southwest!
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Purplecow
Member
12-08-2003
| Saturday, July 17, 2004 - 7:41 pm
I travel a lot for business and I fly Southwest frequently. The worst problem I've ever encountered at the gate was the idiots who go stand in line for more than half an hour before boarding so they can be the first people on the plane. Oh, wait, that's me! Seriously, I don't know about the overbooking, but I always arrive 2 hours before scheduled departure and check in outside with the skycap, so I'm always in "Group A." They didn't show when the gal who was looking for her kids, and badmouthing their stepmother every step of the way, found out that the stepmother had sent a chaperone with them. I guess she ate her crow later, off camera. I enjoy the BBCA version, also. They seem to have more interesting "problems."
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Potted_plant
Member
08-29-2001
| Tuesday, July 20, 2004 - 9:50 am
I watched this last night. I was appalled at the SW employee (Colleen?) taking that guy OFF the plane, after he was already boarded. What a power trip witch she was. The guy was a little rude, but I think that's understandable if you have hung around for hours on end. Its her job to calm him down, not throw him off the plane & give him his money back, when he did not ask for it.
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Luvmykitties
Member
01-02-2004
| Tuesday, July 20, 2004 - 5:37 pm
I was also shocked when they filmed the really drunk guy pulling out of his parking spot! I wonder in the instances where the person was escorted out, does security even bother to see if the person is getting in a car? Probably not From the episodes I've seen, the majority of instances were really the customer's ignorance/stupidity. Getting really drunk before boarding, showing up 2 minutes before a flight leaves, not having a "lap kid"'s birth certificate with them, losing a ticket, packing needed medication into your luggage (and not keeping it on you at all times), etc And then there was that lady that demanded that the flight be held until she made a phone call. Yeah, right... Though it is interesting to see how the different agents handle the situation. I think the customer's agree to be shown because they probably feel that they are right, and now everyone will see how bad SouthWest Airlines is. The one episode that made me feel so bad was the one with the extreme overbooking. And then eventually put most of the people on a connecting flight, only to have them sent back. I'd say maybe 30% of the flights I've been on were overbooked - but not by that much. The airline always offered a seat on another flight and a credit voucher for a future flight as incentive for someone to give up their seat. (although I haven't flown in 3 years, so it may have changed). I always got there early so I've never had a problem. When I caught an episode of the BBC version, they had these miners who couldn't drink for 3 months on the job, so they'd get loaded up the minute they get to the airport. It was funny to watch how that was not an issue there (some guy was even searching all the bars to make sure these guys got on their flight)
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