Premium airlines consider a flight longer than 4 hours is a long-haul one. Cabin crew has a lot of extra duties during long-haul flights compared to short-hauls and completing those tasks they need an aisle.
If passengers are encouraged to stand up and walk as many times as possible (to avoid DVT), plus they need to use lavatories, crew is just unable to do the job.
I have a terrible experience with one of the Middle Eastern airlines when I took a 6 hour long route on board an A-320 to BUD. A couple hours after take-off some of the crew members were literally yelling at passengers when they lined up at the lavatories because they were stuck at the back of the plane. It happened quite a few times during that flight. Sending them a formal complaint, I then stopped using their service until they upgraded to A-330-300...
I have heard friends complaining a lot when they took the SIN-PER 6 hour long route on board a QF B-737-800.
When I took the same route in early 2010, QF operated 747
No, I do not. Never said that technologies are automatically perfect. Cross checking measures, though, must be 100% accurate, based on the fact that one single measure is never an accurate measure. But it is already the use of multiple technologies, not just one.
(One diagnosis is not a diagnosis. Always ask a second, or third doctor. You have heard that, have not you.)
To be honest, there are multiple reasons why I do not travel to the US but it would be way off-topic to talk about it. I just do not, so JetBlue or other low budget US carriers (and their practices) do not really annoy me. Other countries?... Well... just arrest me and you will soon apologize. Nothing really I can do about it.
Thanks guys for your responses. :)
Just for the accurate record: Turkey is a half European country. The Asian influence is equally strong there. Quite a funny blend, though...
And I was talking about decent, correctly managed countries, not Third World countries where other problems exist. Third World countries barely use state-of-the-art identification technologies.
Back to the developed West: if your leaders are rubbish, stand up for your rights, raise your voice and do something about it. Or if you cannot, you are still free to move to another country. Just because your leaders are non-law abiding people, it still does not authorize you to break the law.
When you are charged for breaking any law, the court does not analyze whether the law is right, or not. If it is in place, you are obliged to abide it. Period. In other words - back to my original theory -, if you want to be a 100% law abiding citizen, you can manage that. Just avoid confusing situations.
What harm these new identification technologies can cause for you in your everyday (and entire) life if you are a 100% law abiding citizen?...
Again: 100% law abiding. Not 95%, or 98,5%...
100%.
Are you asking that how an Earth one can be a 100% law abiding citizen?
Trust me... anyone can be that. And the life that way is not even boring. Try it!
