{"id":27,"date":"2008-10-28T17:02:17","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T22:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2008-10-28T17:11:39","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T22:11:39","slug":"united-airlines-is-it-as-bad-as-folks-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/28\/united-airlines-is-it-as-bad-as-folks-say.html","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines &#8211; Is it as bad as folks say?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"2e5142c0289a1f785cf2dcce097231a4\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-6725039255769208\";\r\n\/* Reno Hotels Leaderboard *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0584775893\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sftodo.com\/images\/limousines\/airplane-sfo-airport.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco SFO Airport\" \/><br \/>\nWe recently rode United Airlines on a cross-country trip after a long time away from this airline.  They&#8217;re rated low for service and have amazing fee&#8217;s for just about anything.  It is totally true that there is zero food; $125 charge for a bag over 51 pounds, and you can pay extra for 5 inches more legroom in &#8220;economy plus&#8221;.   Since there is a charge for every bag &#8211; the overhead compartments are overflowing with bags &#8211; everyone brings a nice big carry-on rolling bag to avoid the baggage fee&#8217;s. The service is pretty indifferent, but we saw something that gave us new hope in mankind for the airline industry.<\/p>\n<p>The woman sitting behind me was flying with two young children around 2 years and 6 years.  Just as the plane taxied away from the airport &#8212; one of the children announced they &#8220;had to go&#8221;.  The passenger asked the stewardess to use the bathroom, but she verified they were closed until we reached cruising altitude &#8212; 30 minutes or more.  I saw disaster on its way, but one of the United stewardesses was so kind to actually <strong>STOP THE PLANE<\/strong> so this little boy could use the bathroom.  I was amazed they were so considerate and the two minute &#8220;quickie&#8221; bathroom break made the flight a lot easier for the little boy and nearby passengers (smell-wise) such as myself.<\/p>\n<p>United Airlines flight attendant on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sftodo.com\/sanfranciscoairport.html\">San Francisco airport<\/a>&#8211; Chicago flight:  I applaud your consideration.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently rode United Airlines on a cross-country trip after a long time away from this airline. They&#8217;re rated low for service and have amazing fee&#8217;s for just about anything. It is totally true that there is zero food; $125 charge for a bag over 51 pounds, and you can pay extra for 5 inches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[20,22,23,375,21,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}