Saturday, January 24, 2009
And another thing...
Another annoying thing about Northwest is that, when you go to book your flight, they tell you that all of the seats, except for some middle ones, are booked. So we were going to have to sit behind each other. But the truth is, those seats aren't really booked. Some time before the flight (it might only be a day or two), they offer to sell you those seats for an extra $20-$25! Pretty cheeky, if you ask me. Fortunately, one of the available seats was next to my lovely bride, so I only had to pony up an extra $25.
To add insult to injury, the flight was nowhere near full, so I could have moved to that seat for free: We actually had the entire row on that side to ourselves. On the second half of the flight, the plane was too small for that: all the seats were either window or aisle, and on the way home, I was able to get us seats together (even on the rescheduled flight, which was actually pretty full).
On the, um, "bright" side, they only charge $15 for the first bag, instead of $25 like some other airlines. I wonder how long before they put a credit card reader on the...no, I don't want to give them any ideas!
One really spooky thing was that, while we were on the trip, I got an email claiming that I had purchased tickets on Northwest's web site, and they had charged my credit card. I just needed to open up the attached zip file to see what the tickets were. It looked really legit, and I almost fell for it, since we were on Northwest, but there were actually quite a few reasons why it couldn't be true. But I can see how people fall for these things.
While it probably wouldn't have hurt my PDA to open the file, I just tossed it out. Why take a chance, why encourage the scumbags? A day or so later, I read an article talking about "the new Northwest Airlines trojan", and how they were seeing a lot of it recently. I guess I was on the leading edge of that one...
To add insult to injury, the flight was nowhere near full, so I could have moved to that seat for free: We actually had the entire row on that side to ourselves. On the second half of the flight, the plane was too small for that: all the seats were either window or aisle, and on the way home, I was able to get us seats together (even on the rescheduled flight, which was actually pretty full).
On the, um, "bright" side, they only charge $15 for the first bag, instead of $25 like some other airlines. I wonder how long before they put a credit card reader on the...no, I don't want to give them any ideas!
One really spooky thing was that, while we were on the trip, I got an email claiming that I had purchased tickets on Northwest's web site, and they had charged my credit card. I just needed to open up the attached zip file to see what the tickets were. It looked really legit, and I almost fell for it, since we were on Northwest, but there were actually quite a few reasons why it couldn't be true. But I can see how people fall for these things.
While it probably wouldn't have hurt my PDA to open the file, I just tossed it out. Why take a chance, why encourage the scumbags? A day or so later, I read an article talking about "the new Northwest Airlines trojan", and how they were seeing a lot of it recently. I guess I was on the leading edge of that one...
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