Originally Posted By DAR Boy this is really creepy: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPlQ2faF5EU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =uPlQ2faF5EU</a>
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Eastern was such a classy, down to Earth airline. I miss them a lot. Many great people used to work there. I miss "If you had Wings" as well...
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 ^^I miss them. I also miss Pan Am and TWA ... the names that mean something. Southwest, JetBlue, AirTran and Ted just don't have the same cache.
Originally Posted By Lake Nona >>that's very disturbing all the characters were a bunch of creeps<< Just in time for Halloween.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Eastern was such a classy, down to Earth airline. I miss them a lot. << I miss them also. I miss the excitement of never knowing when my bags were going to show up. I miss the constant overbookings of flights. I miss the long delays spent in airports waiting for my connecting flight to get there hopefully within a 6 hour time frame. I love being bumped from a flight that I was booked on, and spending the night at the airport trying to get a flight home.I miss being sent across town from O'Hare to midway for an unscheduled flight change do to overcrowded conditions at the Eastern terminal. However the school bus trip across town to a deserted airport (That's right Midway wasn't open for commercial flights then), and sitting on the runway for four hours was an adventure. Oh, how I miss the good old days. Sorry for the rant I just haven't had a chance to whine about Eastern since I quit flying them. Be thankful I didn't go further I could write a book about my complaints with them.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 I felt the same way about TWA -- was just awful the last few years before they disappeared.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN You have no idea how bad morale can get among the rank when you see top management raiding the company you so dearly loved and sacrified everything for. How can employees bring themselves up to offer the best possible service when they are mistreated so badly by management, bankrupcy courts and..especially, when management takes away the tools needed to do a good job, and put the moeny they save instead into their golden parachutes and bonuses???
Originally Posted By MPierce ^^^I've never had the pleasure. I normally no longer make a habbit of flying. I leave that up to my wife to do the flying in the family. It's been nearly 2 years since I've flown. That was the first time in over 20 years. I normally drive to WDW every January, but due to the destruction from hurricane Katrina, and Rita to the Texas, Louisana, and Mississippi Gulf coast we chose to fly. I was very impressed with the quality of service from Continental Airlines. All of the employees, and members of the flight crew were very friendly, and professional. If we could have just stayed on the ground for the whole trip it would have been perfect.
