Timeshare travel-time and forced Continental Connections

I'm fed up with continental connections. Have you ever wondered if the airlines would do OK without making us do continental connections, and allow direct flights in their business plan?

Next week I have to leave my timeshare and get back to NY state. Well do you think I could get a flight without a connection? Nope. Only connections.. no direct flights for this weary traveller. Looking at the itineraries online, there's not much selection.

I would like to fly back from my timeshare for less than a day's travel-time with stops in some God forsaken hub airport again. My timeshare neighbors feel the same thing too. We talk about it over bridge at in the timeshare's lounge on Tuesdays.

I haven't been on a direct flight from my home in NY to the timeshare in Mexico in a long time, but let's see... I have been to Europe and I know you can get a direct flight to almost anywhere within Europe between on of the many airlines there.

If the North American airline CEOs looked across 'the pond' to see how Europe's airlines somehow co-operatively cover most cities with direct connections. No wonder you don't hear about air-rage in Europe.

I love America and all, but let's get our act together and urge the airlines to get more direct flights and less continental connections in North America.

Del Palmar

Del Palmar Complains About Continental Connections Poolside at His Timeshare

Del Palmar here, sitting at my timeshare in Mazatlan complaining about these continental connections that the airlines force us to take. Don't you see that the continental connections are just a fraud and scam to take our money and time?
I just flew down to my timeshare last week, and boy let me tell you. These airline companies really have us by the you know whats. You mean to tell me I can't get from NY to my timeshare in Mexico direct? I can only take a continental connection through some hub airport.
This is 2010 and by now you should think that the airlines would be better serving their customers. I've been coming to my timeshare for about 15 years, and each year the direct flights are fewer and fewer. Now, good luck getting to the timeshare direct.
So Marie and I had our continental connection in Houston, exchanged our money and paid an awful commission. There's a good business to be in. Just exchange, buy and resell money for large commissions and exchange fees at the airports. Anywhere there's tourists, set up a little kiosk and start to exchange, buy and resell money for large commissions and exchange fees.
I think it's cheaper to exchange, buy and resell money for your vacation in the USA. In Mexico, the large commissions and exchange fees are even larger. So we do it before going to the timeshare.
The flights to the timeshare was reasonable. Crap food, and Eddie Murphy in a fat-suit movie. But Marie let me have the window seat and one of her green pills. I only looked up from the view to order a gin and tonic, which I know from past experiences, goes really well with her green pills.
By the time we got to the airport in Mazatlan, I was ready to get in a cab and head for my favorite taco stand on the way to the timeshare, but I pressed the red button. For anyone who hasn't been to Mexico before, Customs has a different system than ours (anyone with a tan). In Mexico, you press a button and if the light goes red then you go off to get searched; green and you can proceed. Marie pressed green, but they searched her too.
Of course they didn't find anything because there wasn't anything to find. You can get anything you want in Mexico anyway. What would anyone really be smuggling into Mexico?
I'd love to see about one of those timeshare jet companies for my continental flights without connections. That would be a worthy investment to get to the timeshare in Mexico more often. The grandkids would LOVE that, boy let me tell you. See all their inheritance go to that one purchase. Just think of the look on their faces.

Sorry kids, I'm you wanted to go to college or something, but you know how Grandpa hates a connecting flight.

North American
Continental Connections
My complaints 'bout them.

A haiku by Del Palmar

Del Palmar Complains About Continental Connections Poolside at His Timeshare

Del Palmar here, sitting at my timeshare in Mazatlan complaining about these continental connections that the airlines force us to take. Don't you see that the continental connections are just a fraud and scam to take our money and time?

I just flew down to my timeshare last week, and boy let me tell you. These airline companies really have us by the you know whats. You mean to tell me I can't get from NY to my timeshare in Mexico direct? I can only take a continental connection through some hub airport.

This is 2010 and by now you should think that the airlines would be better serving their customers. I've been coming to my timeshare for about 15 years, and each year the direct flights are fewer and fewer. Now, good luck getting to the timeshare direct.

So Marie and I had our continental connection in Houston, exchanged our money and paid an awful commission. There's a good business to be in. Just exchange, buy and resell money for large commissions and exchange fees at the airports. Anywhere there's tourists, set up a little kiosk and start to exchange, buy and resell money for large commissions and exchange fees.

I think it's cheaper to exchange, buy and resell money for your vacation in the USA. In Mexico, the large commissions and exchange fees are even larger. So we do it before going to the timeshare.

The flights to the timeshare was reasonable. Crap food, and Eddie Murphy in a fat-suit movie. But Marie let me have the window seat and one of her green pills. I only looked up from the view to order a gin and tonic, which I know from past experiences, goes really well with her green pills.

By the time we got to the airport in Mazatlan, I was ready to get in a cab and head for my favorite taco stand on the way to the timeshare, but I pressed the red button. For anyone who hasn't been to Mexico before, Customs has a different system than ours (anyone with a tan). In Mexico, you press a button and if the light goes red then you go off to get searched; green and you can proceed. Marie pressed green, but they searched her too.

Of course they didn't find anything because there wasn't anything to find. You can get anything you want in Mexico anyway. What would anyone really be smuggling into Mexico?

I'd love to see about one of those timeshare jet companies for my continental flights without connections. That would be a worthy investment to get to the timeshare in Mexico more often. The grandkids would LOVE that, boy let me tell you. See all their inheritance go to that one purchase. Just think of the look on their faces.

Sorry kids, I'm you wanted to go to college or something, but you know how Grandpa hates a connecting flight.

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Fwd: Continental Connection & Complaint & Timeshare Haikus

Sitting by the pool
Complaining about
Mexican timeshares

No more direct flights
Continental Connections
Death of the airlines

Continental Flights
Delayed and missed connections
Timeshare with A/C

Timeshare, Oh timeshare
Mazatlan de Mexico
We complain, timeshares

You could smoke on planes
Continental Connections
No metal forks, knives

Timeshare point system
Listing fees, maintenance fees
Timeshare fraud scam end.

DelPalmar

Y5FFKN6A4QGX

Continental Connection & Complaint & Timeshare Haikus

Sitting by the pool
Complaining about

Mexican timeshares

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No more direct flights
Continental Connections

Death of the airlines

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Continental Flights
Delayed and missed connections

Timeshare with A/C

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Timeshare, Oh timeshare
Mazatlan de Mexico

We complain, timeshares

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You could smoke on planes
Continental Connections

No metal forks, knives

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Timeshare point system
Listing fees, maintenance fees
Timeshare fraud scam end.

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Thank-you,

Del Palmar

Here in Mexico
Continental Connections
complain about life

Continental Connections are Death of Airlines Complains Retiree

Continental Connections are Death of Airlines Complains Retiree
For almost 40 years, Del Palmar has been jetting around North America. As a buyer for a large American retail chain, Mr. Palmar has racked up a staggering amount of frequent flyer points. During that time, Mr. Palmar watched the decline of the multi-billion dollar industry.
The main complaint he has with the airlines is continental connections, forcing flyers to fly to a hub instead of a direct flight to their destination. Continental connections are used to protect the bottom line of the airlines, forcing flyers to adjust their itinerary to suit the needs of the airlines and filling extra-large airplanes with travelers who are not going to their intended destination.
Mr. Palmar asks North American airline companies to look at European airlines, and their business model. Smaller airplanes are used on Europe's many less popular routes, decreasing the need for continental connections and hub airports. The airlines have more routes to accommodate it's clients, whose conveniences are taken into consideration. Mr Palmar would like to see more routes within continental North America, and less flights with connections.
He also suggests that the level of service be maintained or increased, and since clients don't mind paying more for services, airlines can charge more per seat and protect their bottom line, instead of charging for incidentals like luggage, or $5 for a beer.
How will the current economic downturn affect the airline industry? Mergers and companies going under will further limit the flyer's options, and more hubs will be used. Smaller airports may become obsolete as the airlines merge their services and condense it's workforce and overhead, and jobs would be cut. A timeshare agreement between airlines and affiliates would see a further reduction in jobs are the companies share the workforce required to maintain the dwindling fleet. Timeshares for airlines would be undetectable by travelers, however the staffs would be working on a skeleton crew.
A redesign of the business model as prescribed by Mr. Palmar would keep jobs safe as there would still be the requirement for labor to accommodate the routes.
Instead of complaining about the continental connections flyers are forced to go through, airlines should follow Mr. Palmar's suggests North American airline's business models adjust their business model and emulate European airlines: smaller planes and direct routes. Budget airlines in Europe frequent smaller airports and destinations while navigating throughout the continent, without many connections for flights. And while your itinerary may not remain loyal to a specific airline, the itinerary meets the needs of the traveler and the direct flights are used more often than not.
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