Travel any airline, and getting an exit row seat is like hitting the jackpot in this small universe. Extra leg room in exchange for agreeing to help out in case anything happens to the plane. Generally to get those seats you have to be in reasonable physical shape (not handicapped or too ineligible because of the age), and agree to perform the necessary procedures as requested by the airline crew.
Not on United, where exit rows are referred to as Economy Plus seating, and are sold either on per-flight basis, or as annual membership. Anybody can buy them, and there’s no implicit requirement that you help other passengers out in case of a disaster. Who needs safety requirements, when the airline stands to make an extra $14 per seat?
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Things I don't understand at October 14th, 2007.
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Yet another e-mail arrives in your inbox with threatening DONOTREPLY e-mail address in the From: field. According to Cingular, I am also supposed to filter out this e-mail to make sure it doesn’t get blocked by GMail’s anti-spam.
Most likely my innocent inquiry about the bill I received is forwarded to some ticketing system, where it will just duly wait its turn in the queue. Most likely there’s a ticket number assigned to it, and most likely I will be asked to provide some additional information regarding my request. I will probably be asked to go to the ticketing system page, and depending on the level of integration might be asked to create another account or use my cingular.com login.
All of which could be eliminated if instead of DONOTREPLY you accepted a reply email. The fact that I replied to it most likely signifies that the subject is going to look like Re: Ticket #1234567890, which would allow you to append the text of the e-mail to the ticket queue and increase efficiency on both ends.