Jet Blue 4 hour awful flight to nowhere

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Originally Posted By: Bill in Utah
While I have not flown on Jetblue this year I have flown in the last 2 months 2 trips which incl 5 flights on Airbuses.

Flight from SLC to Phoenix on a A320 it was excellent.

Flight from Phoenix to Tampa on a A321 which required a gate start of one of the engines since the APU was INOP. Also required us to fly along the panhandle instead of across the Gulf.

Flight from Tampa to Charlotte on a A321 the bathroom doors kept flying open when not locked. Most of the seats would not stay in the upright position.

Flight from Charlotte to SLC on a A320 that kept making serious pressurization noises, the crew could not go above 28,000 feet, kept playing with the engines and most of the time they were out of sync. More seats that would not stay locked in the upright position. Then on landing they did not use the reverse on the engines. Asked why and the crew (pilots) had a "concern" with them so only used brakes and kept the noise up.

A month later from Denver to LGA on another Airline's A320 again MANY seats that had the "feature" of not locking in a certain position.

I normally fly in Boeing Aircraft or RJ and never seen so many concerns in such a short time. And I've never had a seat back problem over the many decades I've flown in commercial aircraft.

The flight home in a B757 was nice, quiet and at 41,000 feet we get with the program from JFK to SLC.

Of course seats not staying upright, INOP APUs and reveres er issues are nothing compared to what these folks had to deal with.

Bill



What airline do you fly? Air Stalingrad? Yikes!
 
At least for the first set of flights he mentions, judging by the airplane types and cities/routing - I'd wager a guess it started with US and ends with Airways...
 
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What airline do you fly? Air Stalingrad? Yikes!


Originally Posted By: MNgopher
At least for the first set of flights he mentions, judging by the airplane types and cities/routing - I'd wager a guess it started with US and ends with Airways...


Ding! We have a winner.

US Airways to and from FL.

United SLC to LGA (via Denver) and because of a problem in LGA Delta from JFK back to SLC.

Bill
 
I was on a connection from SLC to IDA a few years ago, and as I was going up the steps to the cabin on an Embraer E120 turboprop, a loud voice caught my attention. The First Officer was standing on the ground under the nose looking up and shouting into his cell phone: "I'm telling you it's cracked! I'm standing here looking at it and it's definitely cracked!"

Once we were boarded, we waited for a while. Then we got off and boarded a different plane and enjoyed an uneventful hop up to Idaho Falls.
 
They don't call 'em "Scarebusses" without a reason!
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i started working at Boeimg in 1979, as a machinist. the FIRST thing was told was "WE are Boeing, we cant afford to make bad parts. peoples lives depend on our parts." any time i had a Q about a part, it was ok to ask Qs.
 
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