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[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 20 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I'm a pilot (not commercial) and if you're still flying Frontier then that is kind of on you.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

If you go to a party, how will you know which person is a pilot?

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 46 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] WhoIsTheDrizzle@lemmy.world 2 points 41 minutes ago (1 children)

I dunno if you're being facetious, but it's their entire personalities and all they talk about... In my experience, in general. No offense to pilots who don't do this. How people describe marathon runners and vegans.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 31 minutes ago* (last edited 30 minutes ago)

I was trying to set you up for the punch line, but this works too, lol.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I don’t fly often… like maybe once every few years. And when I do my boss usually books the flight since It’s work related and it’s usually American or Southwest.

Is Frontier that bad?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes. The last time i flew Frontier they had such a long delay it would have been faster to walk. No that is not an exaggeration.

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I have to ask what the flight was

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Slc to smf. Detour in Denver, delayed 12 hours, got into a different flight to oak instead of smf, delayed another 6 hours.

I am ungenerous with my accounting, but I can make it on foot from oak to smf in 18 hours and that's what I'm counting (it's just under 100 miles, I am assuming I will die the next day like all ultra marathon folk)

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 8 points 7 hours ago

It is a low cost airline like Spirit.

So yes.