Comments on: ‘This Is Your Captain Snoring…’

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:13:28 +0000

Frighteningly, I’m not surprised. We just had a 2 week trip that involved 4 flights with Delta/Northwest/Mesaba/whoever they choose to use today. Connections were, well missed completely, mistakes were made in rerouting us and twice, yes twice, our luggage was lost completely. The tears and holes in our brand new luggage I actually could have lived with had the other stuff not happened. Coming home, our luggage got stuck in Detroit. Strange thing is, we were never scheduled to fly through Detroit. High fives on security! Not one employee was apologetic, instead being very irritated at giving us $13 in food vouchers when we’d be spending an extra 9 hours at one airport. My feedback with them is pending. Lemme know if you’d like a copy of the letter I sent.

By: No White House reaction on Northwest Airlines pilots’ flub | csmonitor.com

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:12:31 +0000

[...] the airline community – unlike Burton – has plenty to say about the incident. Joe Sharkey, who runs one of the most popular airline blogs, doesn’t buy the sleeping [...]

By: Oliver

Oliver — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:32:16 +0000

I think these two pilots should start working on their resume for a new career in ground transportation. Even though we certainly don’t know all the facts, I cannot imagine an explanation that would/should satisfy the FAA, NTSB and/or Delta.

Imagine they’d been on a flight to, say, PHL and overshot going in the direction of DC. I wonder how long the air force would have let them continue on their path before sending up some F16s to get the flight down one way or another…