Anyone Flown NWA recently?
Recently I was on Northwest Airlines from Chicago to New Orleans. The first flight was delayed because the flaps on the plane were stuck down... 2 Hours later finally got to leave chicago. Then when i switched planes in Memphis I noticed that the plane appeared to be very old. The seats were obviously worn out to the point where the stitching was coming out. The windows looked to be scratched very badly and the plane was filthy dirty. On the way back to Chicago my flight was delayed because of an "equipment problem that was not disclosed". Now i am aware that Northwest Airlines is having trouble financially but these planes are not SAFE!!! These flights were on DC9 and CRJ equipment. Northwest really needs to retire the antique DC9 aircraft.
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yes, i flew there in JAnuary and it was from columbus ohio to st paul mn and then to des moines iowa and it was redikcous i am 210 pounds and i couldnt even fit in the seat it was crazy and they had to ice the wing on the way back and that took 1 hour and it wasnt even that cold
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I'm flying Northwest for the first time tomorrow, Thank God it'll be a B757 and not one of their ancient DC9s, So fingers crossed!
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NWA should stand for NWA should stand for ,'No Where Airlines'.On a resent flight they sat me next to aguy who smelled like he had an accident in his pants. I noticed that there were quite a few empty seats, so I moved to one of them. The flight attendant saw me move, and told me that was not allowed, and that I would stay in my assigned seat. I tried to as tactfully as I could, why I moved. I even asked if there was room in 1st class, and I would pay the difference. Sorry, no can do. In the meanwhile the passengers sitting in front and back of the smelly passenger, started to gripe. We said move us, or move him. We were told to go back to our seats, or she would call the captain. We told her fine! call him. She called him on the phone and talked for about five minutes and turned red (with anger) The captain told her to reassign our seats and just change our seat numbers on the flight manifest. If looks could kill, I would have been dead. .
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How do you know these airplanes are unsafe? Do you have a powerplant and airframe license? You've got pukeing passengers, destructive vandal teens, and people who whine, complain and moan about everything- example- they over eat, so they blame the airlines when their size 50 butt won't fit in a standard 190 pound persons seat. Theres no excuse for dirty, however this is the summertime, every airplane that can be made safely to fly IS flying and I promise between August 31st, and November 15th, that airplane will be cleaned- usually professionally by a 3rd party vendor contractor.
