Comments on: What we’re reading: Visitors return to Vegas but spend less, United cuts 50-seat CRJs, United suspends drunk pilot http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/what-were-reading-visitors-return-to-vegas-but-spend-less-united-cuts-50-seat-crjs-united-suspends-drunk-pilot/ The last honest travel site Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:02:35 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Scott http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/what-were-reading-visitors-return-to-vegas-but-spend-less-united-cuts-50-seat-crjs-united-suspends-drunk-pilot/comment-page-1/#comment-17456 Scott Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:34:27 +0000 http://www.consumertraveler.com/?p=21600#comment-17456 Wow! I wonder what the plan is for cities like Colorado Springs. I fly to and from Denver en route to points beyond at least once every week and all we have are CRJs and the occasional Dash-8 (SO glad to see those going away at long last). We used to have something like a dozen COS-DEN round-trips per day and they were all 737s or larger. Probably never going to see those days return. Sure hope United clarifies their plans soon. I will not consistently be flying through Chicago as an alternative. Nor will I be driving to/from Denver every time I turn around. Dang, just as I finally approach 1M miles with United, it may soon be time to start looking at alternatives... As for that pilot being "drunk," I'm not so sure. The UK standard is apparently .02, which was characterized in an article yesterday as being about the equivalent of half a glass of beer. Not exactly "drunk" in my book. Having said that, I'd rather that the pilots driving my airplanes be pegged at .00. Wow! I wonder what the plan is for cities like Colorado Springs. I fly to and from Denver en route to points beyond at least once every week and all we have are CRJs and the occasional Dash-8 (SO glad to see those going away at long last). We used to have something like a dozen COS-DEN round-trips per day and they were all 737s or larger. Probably never going to see those days return.

Sure hope United clarifies their plans soon. I will not consistently be flying through Chicago as an alternative. Nor will I be driving to/from Denver every time I turn around. Dang, just as I finally approach 1M miles with United, it may soon be time to start looking at alternatives…

As for that pilot being “drunk,” I’m not so sure. The UK standard is apparently .02, which was characterized in an article yesterday as being about the equivalent of half a glass of beer. Not exactly “drunk” in my book. Having said that, I’d rather that the pilots driving my airplanes be pegged at .00.

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