• 16 Jan 2009 at 12:56 PM

Presented Without Comment: That Extra $2,000 Is Looking Tolerable Now

By Bess Levin

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  1. 1
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:01 PM

    Will there be complimentary champagne service while waiting for rescue?

  2. 2
    Posted by onetwo | January 16, 2009 at 1:03 PM

    This is why you only fly baller-class.

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:03 PM

    Doubtful that short flight even had a first class cabin.

  4. 4
    Posted by onetwo | January 16, 2009 at 1:03 PM

    This is why you only fly baller-class.

  5. 5
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:04 PM

    @3: It did.

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:05 PM

    i heard they gave double miles for the flight. so gracious

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:05 PM

    It’s not first class and coach anymore – it’s Goldman and Citi Holdings

  8. 8
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:06 PM

    Thats awesome! Thanks EP. On a boring ass conf call and I had to mute before I laughed out loud!

  9. 9
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:06 PM

    people on the wing are trying to stay away from lawyers in the raft lookung to sign them up.
    http://endofesq.com/?p=870

  10. 10
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:07 PM

    “i heard they gave double miles for the flight. so gracious”
    So, 20 miles instead of 10?

  11. 11
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:07 PM

    Presented without comment? Uh what do you call those words superimposed onto the picture?

  12. 12
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:10 PM

    That is nasty EP. I think that is the emergency exit slide and not a life raft.

  13. 13
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:11 PM

    @9- my word your standards of humor are low. this seriously made you laugh out loud?

  14. 14
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:12 PM

    I always had wanted to make a splash in NY…

  15. 15
    Posted by cy | January 16, 2009 at 1:12 PM

    This would have been an excellent time to join the sea-level high club.

  16. 16
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:17 PM

    Thank goodness Robert Kennedy & Pete Seeger cleaned-up the Hudson River.

  17. 17
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:17 PM

    those c-level executives i guess?

  18. 18
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:20 PM

    Much better than diverting to Jersey….

  19. 19
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:21 PM

    Thank goodness Robert Kennedy & Pete Seeger cleaned-up the Hudson River.

  20. 20
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:22 PM

    Comment removed by moderator.

  21. 21
    Posted by BSD | January 16, 2009 at 1:24 PM

    @7 not quite – Goldman is coach and Citi Holdings is Greyhound.

  22. 22
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:25 PM

    No. 21, you’re an asshole, but I don’t really to tell you that, because you probably already know it.

  23. 23
    Posted by merkin capital partners | January 16, 2009 at 1:25 PM

    “Bye, Bye to my piece of the pie…Now I travel coach whenever I fly…Maybe this will be the day that I die.” –wsj a1

  24. 24
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:26 PM

    Someone commented yesterday about the people in refugee class on the wing with their carryons. Those are seat cushions!

  25. 25
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:29 PM

    #23, I think my many friends have a more appropriate term: schmuck

  26. 26
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:31 PM

    @9, 15, 16 go back to Yahoo finance message boards.
    @11 pretty funny.

  27. 27
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:32 PM

    @21
    go climb into your bunker and put a couple rounds in your mouth

  28. 28
    Posted by onetwo | January 16, 2009 at 1:33 PM

    This is why you only fly baller-class.

  29. 29
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:37 PM

    @26 Justifying, on an anonymous message board, that you have “many” friends… is just sad.

  30. 30
    Posted by Anal_yst | January 16, 2009 at 1:41 PM

    A source who was on the plane (part of rescue effort) has confirmed what we’ve all (presumably) been wondering:
    There were “no hot chicks” on board.
    Make of that what you will.

  31. 31
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:41 PM

    #26 here
    #30 – cute, made me laugh
    I think you know what I meant
    or are you just a withered one?

  32. 32
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:43 PM

    No raft. Emergency chute. If the plane went in nose first the picture would be different.

  33. 33
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:45 PM

    too long, didn’t read

  34. 34
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:46 PM

    I know you are trying to be funny, but that is not a raft, that is the front door slide!

  35. 35
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:47 PM

    I think EP should have her IP range banned.

  36. 36
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:56 PM

    @27.

  37. 37
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:58 PM

    @33 and some of you others, ding! thanks for playing, but on the A320 the forward slides are designed to double as rafts.

  38. 38
    Posted by Equity Private | January 16, 2009 at 1:58 PM

    Call it a “front door slide” a safety slide, a impact cushioning device, whatever you like.
    The reality is that it is an inflated rubbery object keeping the first class passengers out of the water. Where I come from that’s also called a “raft.”
    Of course, the comparison is supposed to be humorous and a little tongue-in-cheek, but it is still amusing that refugee class doesn’t even get a nice, visible yellow inflating preserver.

  39. 39
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:59 PM

    I know you are trying to be funny, but that is not a raft, that is the front door slide!

  40. 40
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 2:01 PM

    I here you get a free cruise certificate with every air ticket you purchase from US Air

  41. 41
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 2:07 PM

    EP, I can see that. I guess, in a way, I can see the humor considering everyone got out safely.

  42. 42
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 2:13 PM

    @26 Justifying, on an anonymous message board, that you have “many” friends… is just sad.

  43. 43
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 2:15 PM

    I apologize for posting twice, the site gave me an error.

  44. 44
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 2:16 PM

    The post was intended as saatire and had more than enough veracity to it to pull it off, in spades. Well done, EP, and some of you dim bulbs need to take a break.

  45. 45
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 2:33 PM

    FYI — that isn’t a raft. Those are the shoots/slides that deploy in a crash and they happen to float as well … however, I’m no aviation expert — not sure if all the doors have them and it’s not a seat-class thing.

  46. 46
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 2:51 PM

    @2 – Recent Reader Mail Bag post notwithstanding, if you’re still in banking, I don’t know if you can still afford “baller-class” anymore.
    Those aren’t seat cushions they’re holding on the wing, those are pitchbooks.

  47. 47
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 2:52 PM

    And no using the first class bathroom on the way out, either.

  48. 48
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 2:56 PM

    Shouldn’t they have let women and children on the raft first, rather than first class passengers???? Like in Titanic?

  49. 49
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 2:56 PM

    @2 – Recent Reader Mail Bag post notwithstanding, if you’re still in banking, I don’t know if you can still afford “baller-class” anymore.
    Those aren’t seat cushions they’re holding on the wing, those are pitchbooks.

  50. 50
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 2:58 PM

    Shouldn’t they have let women and children on the raft first, rather than first class passengers???? Like in Titanic?

  51. 51
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 2:59 PM

    Plane was filled with BoA people doing ML dd….water was probably warmer than ML broker welcome!!

  52. 52
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 3:14 PM

    @47 — hilarious
    Do you think they had time to serve the engine-made foie gras before the landing?
    (ps only asking given that everyone is safe)

  53. 53
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 3:29 PM

    those inflatable slides are detachable and can act as a raft

  54. 54
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 3:29 PM

    those inflatable slides are detachable and can act as a raft

  55. 55
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 3:29 PM

    those inflatable slides are detachable and can act as a raft

  56. 56
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 3:29 PM

    those inflatable slides are detachable and can act as a raft

  57. 57
    Posted by Investorcluzo | January 16, 2009 at 3:32 PM

    @54 – 58: seriously? did you not get the message yesterday? click one time then move along…

  58. 58
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 3:34 PM

    @54-58, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgtBlnOX6VA

  59. 59
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 3:59 PM

    those inflatable slides are detachable and can act as a raft

  60. 60
    Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 4:21 PM

    @60 awesome

  61. 61
    Posted by guest | January 17, 2009 at 3:30 PM

    Sorry to be a spoiler but there were slides/rafts on the wing. They deployed towards the rear of the aircraft and so are out of view in your photo. If you care to watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mLKfRVU3qM you will see both the wing rafts deployed about 3 minutes into the clip.

  62. 62
    Posted by vsm91 | January 17, 2009 at 5:52 PM

    I hope there are NO lawyers circling…..it was an unavoidable accident….the pilot and US Air did an amazing job……
    If someone forgets how lucky they are and does file suit…..it ‘s a SURE sign we need to reform our legal system!

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