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- Newsgroups: rec.travel.air
- Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!ads.com!henry
- From: henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch)
- Subject: Re: Questions Regarding Boarding Passes and Rental Cars
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.203528.19212@ads.com>
- Sender: usenet@ads.com (USENET News)
- Organization: Advanced Decision Systems; a div of Booz, Allen & Hamilton
- References: <1992Dec28.182529.3512@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1992Dec29.002534.13107@ads.com> <1992Dec29.134405.8107@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:35:28 GMT
- Lines: 54
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- sbrenner@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (scott.d.brenner) wrote:
- ->In article <1992Dec29.002534.13107@ads.com> henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch) writes:
- ->|>sbrenner@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (scott.d.brenner) wrote:
- ->|>->Sorry if these are FAQs; I don't read this group regularly.
- ->
- ->|>read: "sorry that i'm too damn lazy to do the right thing, even though
- ->|>i'm asking all of you a favor by asking this question."
- ->
- ->Please, Henry, enlighten me. What, exactly, is "the right thing" in your
- ->view? Should I have taken 5 hours and read through 600+ articles to make
- ->sure that I don't ask a question that's been asked before?
-
- any moron with half a clue can use the feature of his/her newsreader
- which will list articles by subject (hint: replies to your article
- will usually have a related subject field) to identify items which
- he/she might want to read.
-
- ->Gee, thanks. I didn't use a travel agent; I bought my tix directly from the
- ->airline.
-
- too bad for you. like i said: you can still go to a delta ticket
- counter (these aren't all at airports, you know; pick up your yellow
- pages and look under "airlines" ... all the major airlines have ticket
- counters in big cities).
-
- ->Every travel agent I've ever used has been completely incompetent.
-
- as competent as you are, apparently.
-
- travel agents can only respond to your requests; if you are
- inarticulate then you can't blame them for bad results. certainly
- some travel agents aren't as good as others, but to paint the whole
- industry as incompetent is unreasonable.
-
- -> ... They have
- ->almost no knowledge of the travel industry and appear interested only in their
- ->commision. Hence, I do not use agents.
-
- instead, you ask people on the net what you could have asked a
- competent travel agent.
-
- ->A bit cranky today, Henry?
-
- only when confronted with buttheads like you.
-
- ->Yes, it's a very clever arrangement. I'm sure no
- ->one has ever heard of "fly/drive" deals or other kinds of discounted car
- ->rentals when air travel is involved. Thanks for your help.
-
- once again: travel agents do this stuff.
-
- --
- # henry mensch / booz, allen & hamilton, inc. / <henry@ads.com>
- # "fight the real enemy." -- sinead o'connor, and many others.
-