Sentences with phrase «worse than a flight»

Not exact matches

Spirit Airlines had nickel and dimed me with extra fees to the point where this flight was now more expensive than most, but the cramped quarters, piercing glares from the staff, and the weird vibe as I boarded were starting to make me wonder: Is this the worst airline ever?

To identify the best and worst airlines, we surveyed more than 55,000 members last summer, who reported on nearly 98,000 domestic economy flights and 8,700 first - class and business - class flights.

But no matter how bad your commute or travel plans were, I don't think they were worse than 50 or so souls aboard a United Airlines flight into Dulles airport outside Washington reportedly endured.

[2:17] What is your idea of an extraordinary life [2:43] You can be rich and happy, or rich and angry [3:08] It's about defining what life on your terms looks like [3:18] Nothing worse than an angry rich man or woman [3:24] We have a 2 billion - year old brain: focused on fight or flight, and survival [4:14] We don't appreciate enough.

The impact of the March 8 disappearance of Flight MH370, bound for Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, had tipped the carrier into what was then its worst quarterly performance in more than two years.

The documentary also touches on such ABA characters as beefcake forward Wendell Ladner and Marvin (Bad News) Barnes, who once said of a team flight that was to cross into a more westerly time zone and thus arrive earlier than it left, «I'm not getting on any time machine.»

Has looked the part in the Championship and could do worse than take Benik Afobe's rise back to the top flight as his inspiration.

The Magpies find themselves in a relegation battle following eight successive defeats in the Premier League, their worst run of form in the top - flight in more than three decades.

It couldn't go much worse than their last top flight campaign in 2007/08, when they won just once.

The Baggies have the joint worst away record in the top flight this season with just the seven points collected and only Swansea have scored fewer goals than they have.

And while every manager in the top flight will inevitably sanction some major transfer deals in the coming months, they could do worse than try add a couple of bargains to their squads too.

Never mind the general public... Some examples: 1) the passenger in front of us on our first flight, whom when my daughter was crying while we waited to take off and I said something aloud such as «I'll nurse her once we take off and then she'll be quiet», had to tell everyone around us that she was a nurse and that I was essentially a bad mom to not nurse my baby during takeoff (sorry lady, but the reason I bought her a seat was for her to be in her car seat during takeoff as it's much safer than in my arms nursing).

«Activities of this monster dovetailed into a disaster worse than that of a war - torn country; our people took flight; our economy was grounded, financial institutions relocated and our once buzzing city of Omoku was reduced to a ghost town.

In terms of global climate change, the new studies show that «the actual situation is worse» than policymakers realize, says Peter Griffith, an ecosystems ecologist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

TSA lines are notoriously bad during the holidays, check - ins are slower than usual, and winter weather means flights are often delayed or cancelled.

When you consider the effect for both good and bad that flight has had on civilization an effect even greater, it could be argued, than the atomic bomb it's remarkable that we know so little about the men behind the phenomenon.

There's nothing worse than missing your flight due to last minute airport hiccups.

When Easter last fell in March in 2013, the worst offender for flight delays and cancellations was Manchester Airport which saw 30 flights delayed for more than three hours and a whopping 17 cancellations, compared with just nine delays and only four cancellations over the April Easter weekend in 2014.

The only thing worse than being trapped on a delayed flight is being trapped on a delayed flight with a bored child that ran out of entertainment hours ago.

Though in theory she'd be getting her money's worth, with a redemption no better or worse than is possible on other travel expenses using ThankYou points, there's a better program for handling this specific flight itinerary that would preserve these ThankYou points for use later on.

There's nothing worse than missing your flight and not knowing where to turn.

They don't let you book First Class awards with partners at all, they rarely have low - level award availability (and I think this might get worse after the recent devaluation), you can only redeem round trip flights (one - ways are coming in 2015 though), and in general their miles are much harder to use than those of other programs.

[I bring] a USB charger: For long - haul flights, nothing is worse than running out of battery power on my phone or e-reader or laptop.

The question to me isn't whether the Southwest flight is «better» or «worse» than the American flights, it's whether the Southwest flight is going to be better by enough, often enough, to justify jumping through their hoops in addition to the ordinary searches I do for paid tickets and awards on real airlines.

The United business class flight deals to Asia are not that great (70K miles instead of regular 80K) an they are worse than regular American levels.

The bad thing about spending points for flights like this is the value of your rewards drops, you get much less than you would have gotten if you just used a miles card such as the Delta / AMEX card.

You also can run the numbers to see why redeeming reward points for merchandise or gift cards tends to be a worse deal than redeeming for flights.

After sleeping more than half the flight it was time for breakfast which wasn't bad and was served with less than 2 hours left on the flight.

Much worse than for flights and interestingly enough a poorer deal than getting a hotel gift card.

If you don't have enough rewards to cover a flight, you can buy points or miles from the airline, but this is almost always a bad deal because they cost more than they're worth, on average.

A flight booked with Chase points via Chase's online booking portal for instance will give you a much worse value than what you'll be able to book yourself simply by transferring those points to an airline first, and booking from your account with that airline instead.

The odds of the availability getting worse are higher than the odds of better flights suddenly becoming available.

They want badly to be more than paintings — see how many of the scalloped shapes lift off the support like feathers summoning flight while exposing not bare canvas but reflective Mylar — but they air that complaint in whispers, not stage screams, despite Yates» parallel practice making indie - rock posters.

Between taking up gliding in 1959 and his death five years later, following injuries sustained during a bad landing, Lanyon clocked up 57 flying hours, more than 385 flights.

Short flights are the worst, emitting more CO2 per mile traveled than medium to longer flights.

Worried that bad weather was on the way, he went straight to LaGuardia and was able to get on an earlier - than - scheduled flight that would take him back to his home in Florence, S.C., where he is a partner at the firm Aiken, Bridges, Nunn, Elliott & Tyler.

Many hit the road during this time of year to avoid the peak - season crowds and save more than a few bucks on flight and hotels, while others hunker down at home to avoid the risk of getting rained out — or worse, having to evacuate, in the event of an emergency.

Still, that's not a bad result and it's more than enough to get you through a day with regular use, or powered through a long flight.

The anticipation (for me, anyway) is usually worse than the actual flight, so at least once it's over you won't have to stress over it anymore.

Well, to be honest, I can't imagine anything worse than another long - haul plane flight so soon after our Charleston homecoming.