Originally Posted By Mr X Oh, we're vacationing. Just maybe not at DisneyWorld. It's a two month North American grand tour, comprising (so far) Montreal, Boston, New York, Washington D.C., and Florida (had to throw in Montreal so it would be "North American" ).
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>Still undecided, Sarah...<< Still undecided is Anderson Cooper. He's coming Sarah. He won't miss this for the anything else in the World.
Originally Posted By Mr X TDLFAN, I skipped DisneyWorld just last year while in Florida...took a cruise instead. It's definitely skipable for me. We'll see. Anyway, looks like the plane tickets are gonna cost more than expected because we have to fly Continental (Northwest and Delta don't provide a plug in coach for my computer, can you believe it!?)...so maybe we'll save money by just going to the beach all week.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN That's what you get for going cheap. Pay more and fly business, instead of economy (wretched) class. Better yet, that is what you get for flying US carriers... You get no pity here in the very least. Maybe you should open up your wallet a bit and fly ANA, JAL or even Singapore or Cathay Pacific.
Originally Posted By Mr X **Pay more and fly business** Easy for you to say. TDLFAN, do YOU have enough money in YOUR piggybank to pay for three transpacific business class fares?
Originally Posted By TDLFAN It never was sarah... As for your question Mr. X... No. I am on an award ticket, like most freeloaders are. Let's get real... half the people sitting in Business clas are paying LESS or NOTHING when compared to what you are paying in Economy Class.. simply because those customers play the system to milk their frequent flyer benefits to the core...
Originally Posted By Mr X Lovely, I just searched for it using our travel parameters. It would cost, airfare alone mind you, a total of... $24,000.00 I don't want to hear you EVER crow on anymore about how a family "should" go ahead and fly business class as though that were in ANY WAY feasible for any normal people...and you KNOW that.
Originally Posted By Mr X Besides, the issue of not taking a Japanese airline wasn't one of cost at all, but rather the fact that we have nice big FREELOADER accounts on all three airlines, which we use to freeload minor trips around Asia all the time.
Originally Posted By Mr X **So can I assume the UK is no longer on the cards this trip?** Sarah, I'd love to but we decided against it. And TDLFAN, what makes you think it was never considered? We definitely DID consider it, as the urging of Dennis-in-CT (of course). Heck, we could've freeloaded over to Europe for free too...but chose instead to freeload up and down the East Coast several times.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>I don't want to hear you EVER crow on anymore about how a family "should" go ahead and fly business class as though that were in ANY WAY feasible for any normal people...and you KNOW that.<< Well... if you can't afford to leave you apartment, then why go anywhere? You do know what the cost of fuel is now a days... Plus, if you are willing to pay more for such an insignificant thing as an electrical plug on your seat, then... why not for a better seat? Better yet, must you bring your family? They do not have to go at all... why spoil *your* vacation by turning it into a family thing?
Originally Posted By Mr X Those are some ridiculous things to say. Once again, I'll simply repeat that $24,000 for transportation for three is not within the budget of ANY normal family...none. If they could afford that, they'd be either 1) wealthy or 2)wasting a good chunk of their lifesavings or 3) putting it on credit and then spending a great deal more than twenty-four thousand dollars in the long run.
Originally Posted By Mr X **Don't you just love watching airlines go bankrupt?** Actually, I'm more into watching mortgage companies go bankrupt these days. Much more dramatic (especially when the CEO's crow on about how everything is "under control" just days before the bankrupcies, all the while shovelling their shares into cash as fast as they can).
Originally Posted By TDLFAN I love seeing airlines going bankrupt too. They deserve NO LESS for giving away their premium products for peanuts, and if it helps those CEO's not collect their golden parachutes, then even better. Of course, the real losser is the passenger, who will have to put up with bad service or at the very least, lack of it.
Originally Posted By Mr X And yet you claim that Japanese airlines have superior service, at comparable prices ("peanuts", according to you...). So is there perhaps more to it than what you are explaining?
Originally Posted By danyoung >Those are some ridiculous things to say.< X, that's just classic TDLFAN. When he can win an argument with his twisted logic, he then starts to spout babble with the hopes that you'll get so angry with him that you'll just quit posting. It works for him with me - I've left many a thread in ruins rather than even try to respond to his silliness. Plus the fact that he's so dry in his writing that I can never quite tell when he's just kidding from when he's deadly serious. It can be trying, can't it?
Originally Posted By Mr X Not really, Dan. (not "trying", for me, I mean...your other comments make sense obviously...since we're talking about the king of cantankerous here and I mean that in a truly affectionate way) I love TDLFAN, he is a family member to me and my wife and daughter here in Japan, and he and I are just messing with each other... Trust me, he's an utterly fantastic human being when you're lucky enough to meet him in person (just like me! ).
