Calling ALL Cockroaches - Customers Only

[longing4piedmont]

All the threads on the new changes have started my creative juices flowing as to the way to best protest the new fees.

Pay for them with pennies. Stock up on rolls and rolls of pennies.

Before boarding, un-roll the pennies and put them in one of your tidy little TSA baggies. When buying a bottle of water of coffee, slowly count out the 200 pennies. They have to take them, they are legal tender. Repeat when you ask for a refill on your coffee.

Or when checking a bag, repeat the above. It will take a while to count out 1,500 hundred pennies.

You could call it "pennies for Doug" or "the bean counter count".....

Please feel free to add your own below

Whatchathink?

 

[700UW]

And how will that hurt management?

They are not the ones onboard serving you, it is the rank and file workers.

 

[phlus2]

And how will that hurt management?

They are not the ones onboard serving you, it is the rank and file workers.

You are right - front line employees would bear the initial brunt of this - but - doing something like this if it caught on and became widespread would cause operational chaos - late flights - long check in lines - missed flights - baggage not on the flight - which would be a problem for Management.

The other thing to do is simply avoid all of the fees - bring only one bag - bring your own food and drinks - depriving the Company of any additional revenues they are trying to generate with all of these new fees.

 

[longing4piedmont]

And how will that hurt management?

They are not the ones onboard serving you, it is the rank and file workers.

You never have read well.....the title says customers only. Besides, they are getting paid whether the are serving me or the next customer. Might even give them a much needed break while we count out our pennies.

If enough people do it, management will have to notice. Just let the new ticket counter agent ( you know the one they hired off the street last week and doesn't know how to turn on the computer) take 25 minutes to check in your bag while you count out the 1500 pennies and the line grow and grows and grows.......

 

[mrman]

Start by stopping one of their large cash streams namely selling points. If USAirway credit cards had a big cancelation hit today as well as moving Car, hotel, flower. mortgage points to other airlines that would get managements attention

 

[X-U]

Maybe if everyone cut their consumption of petroleum, the price of oil would drop, resulting in a lower cost to operate an airplane. Why aren't people paying for bread and milk in pennies since the price of these items has risen concurrent to the rise in oil?

 

[Be Careful What You Wish For.]

Pay for them with pennies. Stock up on rolls and rolls of pennies.

Try paying a cab in PHL, or anywhere else, with pennies,much less loose pennies, see where that gets you.

The reception may not be kind.

"We will get back to you when we have time."

Try it out now and see watchathink?

 

[longing4piedmont]

Try paying a cab in PHL, or anywhere else, with pennies,much less loose pennies, see where that gets you.

The reception may not be kind.

"We will get back to you when we have time."

"Whatchathink"?

I think if one wanted to make a stink about US not accepting the pennies they could and US would have a problem on their hands. They are legal tender and must be accepted. The press would just love it these days

 

[Be Careful What You Wish For.]

I think if one wanted to make a stink about US not accepting the pennies they could and US would have a problem on their hands. They are legal tender and must be accepted. The press would just love it these days

Well, try it out now.

Go to the PHL ticket counter and pay for a ticket in loose pennies.

That will show them.

I wonder what the reaction would be.

Try it out and let us know how it went.

Do banks even take loose unrolled pennies?

 

[mike33]

All the threads on the new changes have started my creative juices flowing as to the way to best protest the new fees.

Pay for them with pennies. Stock up on rolls and rolls of pennies.

Before boarding, un-roll the pennies and put them in one of your tidy little TSA baggies. When buying a bottle of water of coffee, slowly count out the 200 pennies. They have to take them, they are legal tender. Repeat when you ask for a refill on your coffee.

Or when checking a bag, repeat the above. It will take a while to count out 1,500 hundred pennies.

You could call it "pennies for Doug" or "the bean counter count".....

Please feel free to add your own below

Whatchathink?

I think you will have to buy coupons before you board the flight or even check-in at the CTR. Thats the only way. Otherwise your plan could really only hurt you because your the one trying to fly. If you want to spend your time counting pennies and miss your flt then so be it.

 

[rvolkcpa]

All the threads on the new changes have started my creative juices flowing as to the way to best protest the new fees.

Pay for them with pennies. Stock up on rolls and rolls of pennies.

Before boarding, un-roll the pennies and put them in one of your tidy little TSA baggies. When buying a bottle of water of coffee, slowly count out the 200 pennies. They have to take them, they are legal tender. Repeat when you ask for a refill on your coffee.

Or when checking a bag, repent the above. It will take a while to count out 1,500 hundred pennies.

You could call it "pennies for Doug" or "the bean counter count".....

Please feel free to add your own below

Whatchathink?

The new fees are annoying, but the airline industry is obviously hurting. Paying for drinks with pennies will only hurt the flight attendants, it's not going to caue Doug any pain. Pennies will also delay service for other passengers.

Every major airline is feeling the impact of the rise in jet fuel costs, just as we will cringe when we heat our homes next winter.

Right now crude is down $2.28 per barrel. Perhaps the US and CO cuts yesterday are an indication that oil consumption has maxed out and will decline over the next few months. We all need to cut consumption by doing all of our errands in one trip, etc.

If paying the fees eliminates further airline cutbacks, I'm willing to do it.

 

[jimcfs]

Start by stopping one of their large cash streams namely selling points. If USAirway credit cards had a big cancelation hit today as well as moving Car, hotel, flower. mortgage points to other airlines that would get managements attention

I think you're looking at this all wrong, mrman. They don't want customers earning miles. Wouldn't that effect really be a good thing in management's view? Less miles outstanding meaning less liability on the spreadsheet.

 

[longing4piedmont]

I think you will have to buy coupons before you board the flight or even check-in at the CTR. Thats the only way. Otherwise your plan could really only hurt you because your the one trying to fly. If you want to spend your time counting pennies and miss your flt then so be it.

I'm always at the airport early.....

 

[mike33]

I think if one wanted to make a stink about US not accepting the pennies they could and US would have a problem on their hands. They are legal tender and must be accepted. The press would just love it these days

Don't forget, some banks won't even accept pennies unless they are rolled! Try carrying 30 rolls of pennies around!

 

[longing4piedmont]

The new fees are annoying, but the airline industry is obviously hurting. Paying for drinks with pennies will only hurt the flight attendants, it's not going to caue Doug any pain. Pennies will also delay service for other passengers.

Every major airline is feeling the impact of the rise in jet fuel costs, just as we will cringe when we heat our homes next winter.

Right now crude is down $2.28 per barrel. Perhaps the US and CO cuts yesterday are an indication that oil consumption has maxed out and will decline over the next few months. We all need to cut consumption by doing all of our errands in one trip, etc.

If paying the fees eliminates further airline cutbacks, I'm willing to do it.

Simple answer that the kids in Tempe don't understand. Raise the fares and stop the nickel and diming of your best customers. The bread and butter, the business flyer understands that fares have to go up.

Oh I have forgotten that most of those VFF have left US, and the Kettles will not pay the higher fares and you about to find out they will not pay the extra fees.

Oh what a tangled web the kids in Tempe have woven.....