Other than the price I hate Southwest mostly because I HATE the cattle call...
One time the last seat on the plane was between a married couple. I inquired if perhaps they'd like to sit together rather than having me in between and noted that I didn't mind sitting by the window or the aisle I got "We'll sit where we are thank you!" so I plopped in the middle. They then decided they'd have a conversation *around* me... I quickly (and loudly) told them there was no friggin way I was going to allow that. They sulked the entire flight, I watched M*A*S*H on my Zune and laughed loudly... I prefer Jet Blue but that said I never had to be stuck in one of their flights for hours... They don't fly LAX but they do go to Long Beach which is just south. The Long Beach airport is not far from the home of West Coast Choppers should you have such a mind. -Curt Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:22:06 -0700 From: Craig McCluskey <diese...@pisquared.net> To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] Hendrik and Co coming to the US of A in June Message-ID: <20100221092206.522cf613.diese...@pisquared.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:01:26 -0600 Hans Neureiter <diese...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rates are ~ $ 15 a day. $15 a day?! I see you haven't rented for a while. I went on the Budget Car Rental site (http://www.budget.com) and found that going to the rental office at the Los Angeles airport (the other LA), renting a standard- or full-size car, picking it up on 5 June and returning on 15 June, will be $311.41 for an Aussie (it will be $244.14 for a US resident -- they do record your driver's license information). So that's $31/day. Plus gasoline costs. That is down from what it was a few years ago (which was $60 - 70/day). > You could combine air travel for long distance and rent wheels locally > (LA to Chicago = ~ 2000 miles or +30 hrs driving). Now that's a good suggestion. I prefer travelling Southwest Airlines (http://www.southwest.com) when possible. The airports from/to which they fly are listed at http://travel.southwest.com/travel/exploreTravel.html?tabType=routeMapā«=GSUBNAV-AIR-ROUTEMAP , and includes Los Angeles, Chicago Midway, Milwaukee, La Guardia and Las Vegas. Craig _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com