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From: macrakis@harvard.ARPA (Stavros Macrakis)
Newsgroups: net.travel
Subject: Re: Information requested on People Express
Message-ID: <504@harvard.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 21-Mar-85 14:30:54 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 21 14:30:54 1985
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> Being a frequent flyer on many airlines, I can tell you I don't think very
> much of People Express.  Here are the reasons.... [ : No seat assignments;
> Tight seating; No food; Bag hassles; Higher fares now ]

I've always found PE perfectly reasonable for Boston-NY.  I haven't
looked at the prices lately, but it used to be the case that the price
was reasonable for the level of service you were getting.  The main
inherent problem I found was scheduling: their planes are very tightly
scheduled through the day, so if there is a delay somewhere, it cascades
to the rest of the day's schedules.  As for food, I'd rather bring my
own than eat most airlines'.

For longer flights, especially trans-Atlantic, my comfort is more
important to me.  Swissair has the best service; unsurprisingly, it is
always full....  My best trans-Atlantic flight, though, was when I
crossed on a plane so empty that I could find four seats to lie across;
the airline's name was Braniff.

	-s