Never fly Delta
July 25th, 2008 by Pastor Eric
Deep Thought: When you go for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges.
If they could press charges for being angry, they could have sentenced me to life in prison this morning. At 4:50 am this morning, I was told by Delta’s airlines that services Okaloosa County, ASA, that they no longer allow surfboards. Here I am planning a trip to Bali and I can’t take my surfboard. Darlene had to come back in get my board and I had to buy a new one in Huntington Beach.
Seth Godin had a great post yesterday about how he was charged $160 for extra bags and then a friend on the same flight was charged anything for the same bags. He says this:
Disney charges a fortune for the theme park, but they do it a week before you get there, or at a booth far far away from the rides. By the time you get to the rides, you’re over it. The pain isn’t associated with the fun part.
Airlines, on the other hand, surround the very thing they sell (getting you home) with armed guards, untrained TSA agents, long lines and sneering gate agents eager to take your money when you have absolutely no expectation or choice and when your stress is at its highest. This is a problem in the long run.
One good thing that happened. Michaela has been trying to get me to call CJ Hobgood because the ASP is going to be in Bali when we are there. I haven’t wanted to call him because I don’t know him that well and I haven’t talked to him in 3 years. They would like CJ, the 2001 world champ and also a strong Christian, to come by the youth center and visit the kids. So, I go to Huntington Beach to buy a board and the US Open is in town and I run into CJ. Well, he remembers me and I ask him if he is going to Bali for the Search Contest at Uluwatu. He says that he is and that he is leaving tomorrow on the flight before mine. So, I tell him about Michaela, whom he has surfed with before, and they would like him to come visit the kids at the youth center. He said he would love to and told me where he is staying and to come see him when I get there. That is so cool how God worked that out.
In the end, If I ever go to apply for a job at Delta, I will for sure have to ask if they press charges.