Every time I flew with them it wasn’t a good experience. I am one of those notorous “excess baggage” people. That has a big impact on who my choice of airline is..

Get this.. one time.. whilst the airfare was ‘free’ (someone else had bought the ticket and bought on price alone) .. I had to pay nearly the same due to excess baggage. I did the math. Excess baggage on Virgin is ALWAYS cheaper than Jetstar. Always.

Whilst I’m not a frequent plane flight traveller and may not have excess baggage anymore.. I will still rather pay that little bit more for a Virgin flight vs Jetstar. I won’t ever touch Tiger unless I want to be stranded at an airport for hours upon hours.

And does anyone *really* fly Virgin for any reason other than cheap flights? I usually end up with Virgin for just that reason. I feel no loyalty to them, and I expect nothing from them except getting me from point A to point B.

Twitter can be great for arousing people to anger in cases of real injustice. But this isn’t one of them – this is just entitled whining from privileged people who need to neck a cup of concrete. People need to realise they can either have the “good customer service” they demand, or they can have cheap prices, but not both. That customer service is provided by working people, often less privileged and worse-paid than the people who use Twitter or comment on blogs.

So, no sympathy at all for people who are sad because they don’t get a special luggage tag. Cry me a goddamned river.

I was quite surprised (and somewhat saddened) by the great outpouring of perceived injustice and entitlement. Lazy social media bandwagons. Sigh.

Katie
@ZebraBites

I don’t think that’s Virgin’s fault!

@Crain Welch: The old “Twitter is for twits” line confuses, as always, the person with the medium. By all means don’t use Twitter if you don’t find any value in it. However there’s plenty of people who do, and calling them all “twits” is also, in my opinion, infantile.