AirTran Deals

**YellerDog** · 22 Oct 2008, 03:30 PM

That sounds good enough, IMO.

**kingoffighters** · 22 Oct 2008, 03:32 PM

Not good enough for Biff the statistician.

**YellerDog** · 22 Oct 2008, 03:34 PM

I'm not flying on a plane generally because I want to enjoy the flight. I'm flying because I want to get to wherever the hell I'm going.

Go ahead and fly Virgin for the backrubs and nail-care, or whatever the fuck.

I will probably use that link, Thief. Thanks!

**Josh** · 22 Oct 2008, 03:34 PM

But someone said something to him at one point and he took it as fact without ever looking into it so he's an expert on this subject JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER SUBJECT!

**YellerDog** · 22 Oct 2008, 03:36 PM

GOT DAMN!

**Tones** · 22 Oct 2008, 10:35 PM

Airtran is alright. I think I've taken about ten flights with then, and all stopped in Atlanta. My time isn't worth enough for a direct flight.

**Andrew** · 22 Oct 2008, 10:54 PM

Originally Posted by Biff

No, and I don't want to, that's why I don't take airtran.

I agree with this. While your odds of surviving an AirTran flight are pretty good, their track record is bad enough that I wouldn't chance it. They've had a shitload of incidents that luckily didn't result in fatalities, but it speaks poorly of their maintenance standards.

If Southwest is ever an option, this is always the best way to go. Zero passenger fatalities ever, and they're actually a pleasure to fly.

Originally Posted by Josh

750 flights every day since 1993 and only one crash resulting in fatalities.

The only reason they're called AirTran is that their safety record was so terrible as ValuJet that they had to ditch the identity completely. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.