Are you a college students? Fly for $249 all summer long

I'd heard of them as an American version of Ryanair:

http://www.ryanair.com/

The difference seems to be that you can often fly anywhere on the Ryanair route map for the price of taxes and charges; no upfront $249 required.

RGW: No offense, but this would be a honeymoon trip so there wont be any 'social calls' :). Not to mention it will be *Disney Only* so no Tampa (even though I miss Gwazi :()

Now next year might be a different story...

lata, jeremy

See 2Hostyl your not even married yet and already she's telling you can't go to a park.

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Lord Gonchar said:
Imagine the shortcuts taken to keep an airline giving $39 flights profitable.

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Seems to work well enough over here. There are plenty of airlines offering no frills service, such as EasyJet, Ryanair, Hapag-Lloyd Express, FlyBe, BMI Baby, and more. I guess the market is more competitive on this side of the world though.

They can't afford to skimp on maintenance. As soon as one of those planes goes down their customer base will vanish.

Remember ValueJet? One plane crash and their not around anymore. I don't think low budget airlines are going to get away with cutting corners on things like maintenance. They may cut corners on things like customer service but I don 't think the FAA is going to let them skimp on maintenance, not after the Value Jet crash.

ValuJet is Airtran now.

Just a simple name change.

...and a new fleet of planes. :)

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TeknoScorpion said:

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Hey, I've actually threatened restaurants into giving me the age specific discounts before by telling them that it is discriminatory and I could/would sue them if they didn't.

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Am I reading this right when I understand you've actually threatened to sue resturaunts if they didn't give you an age specific discount, even though you aren't old/young enough for it, due to age discrimination?

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Threatened was too strong of a word...but yes, I have told them it is discriminatory to offer age based pricing - asked them how it was different than them offering discounts only to a particular race or gender? Can you even begin to guess how fast the ACLU would jump in if a restaurant would offer discounts only to caucasians?

And by the way, there is legal precent against Ladies Nights as of last year.

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One thing that Independence does to save money is they don't have any flight attendants. The safety message is a recording and there are no food or beverages served. At least that's the way it was when I flew from Cleveland to Spartanburg, SC. I'm sure that helps to cut costs a lot.

Are you sure they don't have flight attendants? I'm almost positive it's required by law to have a flight attendant on any flight. Particularly with the flight crew locked in the cabin.

Aw dang. Guess we ain't good enough for T.

I can see that conversation now...

T: (Hand on hip) And I just KNOW we ain't seein' none a yo raggedy (bleep) coaster people, are we?

Jeremy: Naw babee.

T: Take them crossed fingers out from behind yo back!

Jeremy: If I'm lyin, I'm dyin, babee.

T: Yes you ARE. (scorching gaze of death)

-CO

Just wanted to make sure, George. Now I have reason to never go eat dinner with you ;).

Actually, it gives me food for thought. Anytime I get crappy service or eat at a crappy resturaunt, I'm gonna try and pull that myself.

:)

Come on CO, you more than anyone know you have to pick your battles. You know if you tried to do *everything* you wanted, Playette would soon have you hung up by the short and curlys.

Hey - I don't do it all the time...in fact, I think it has been many, many years - probably when I was back in college a dozen years ago...

ROFLMAO.....ya know, I *envisioned* that very same conversation between "Lady T" and our our hostyl one (geez what a misnomer THAT is, LOL)....but I didn't have the *testicular fortitude* to actually POST the conversation...

Then again, I've been gobbling up everything Victor Conte made for YEARS....which explains the "shrinkage"....;)

gator, MUCH more than just "raggedy-a$$ed coaster people"...:)