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

Posted by Equity Private, Jan 16, 2009, 12:56pm

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Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:01PM

Will there be complimentary champagne service while waiting for rescue?

Posted by onetwo , Jan 16, 2009 1:03PM

This is why you only fly baller-class.

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:03PM

Doubtful that short flight even had a first class cabin.

Posted by onetwo , Jan 16, 2009 1:03PM

This is why you only fly baller-class.

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:04PM

@3: It did.

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:05PM

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

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:05PM

It's not first class and coach anymore - it's Goldman and Citi Holdings

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:06PM

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

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:06PM

what else is new?

Someone should swim over there poke holes in the raft with a pen.

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:06PM

people on the wing are trying to stay away from lawyers in the raft lookung to sign them up.

http://endofesq.com/?p=870

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:07PM

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

So, 20 miles instead of 10?

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:07PM

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

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:10PM

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

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:11PM

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

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:12PM

I always had wanted to make a splash in NY...

Posted by cy , Jan 16, 2009 1:12PM

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

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:17PM

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

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:17PM

those c-level executives i guess?

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:20PM

Much better than diverting to Jersey....

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:21PM

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

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:22PM

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Posted by BSD , Jan 16, 2009 1:24PM

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

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:25PM

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

Posted by merkin capital partners , Jan 16, 2009 1:25PM

"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

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:26PM

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

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:29PM

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

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:31PM

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

@11 pretty funny.

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:32PM

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

Posted by onetwo , Jan 16, 2009 1:33PM

This is why you only fly baller-class.

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:37PM

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

Posted by Anal_yst , Jan 16, 2009 1:41PM

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.

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:41PM

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

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:43PM

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

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:45PM

too long, didn't read

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:46PM

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

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:47PM

I think EP should have her IP range banned.

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:56PM

@27.

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:58PM

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

Posted by Equity Private , Jan 16, 2009 1:58PM

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.

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 1:59PM

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

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 2:01PM

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

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 2:07PM

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

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 2:13PM

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

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 2:15PM

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

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 2:16PM

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.

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 2:33PM

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.

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 2:51PM

@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.

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 2:52PM

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

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 2:56PM

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

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 2:56PM

@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.

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 2:58PM

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

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 2:59PM

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

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 3:14PM

@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)

Posted by guest , Jan 16, 2009 3:29PM