{"id":268,"date":"2006-12-02T08:56:26","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T16:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=268"},"modified":"2006-12-02T09:00:15","modified_gmt":"2006-12-02T17:00:15","slug":"thank-you-us-airways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/thank-you-us-airways\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You, US Airways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This fall I flew on 14 USAirways flights.<\/p>\n<p>As I learn more about the imams incident, I am more grateful for how USAirways handled matters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/12022006\/postopinion\/opedcolumnists\/about_those_imams_opedcolumnists_richard_miniter.htm?page=0\">About Those Imams:<\/a><\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>Contrary to press accounts that a single note from a passenger triggered the imams&#8217; removal, Captain John Howard Wood was weighing multiple factors.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>So the captain made his decision to delay the flight based on many complaints, not one. He also consulted a federal air marshal, a U.S. Airways ground-security coordinator and the airline&#8217;s security office in Phoenix. All thought the imams were acting suspiciously, Rader told me.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>&#8220;I think it was either a foiled attempt to take over the plane or it was a publicity stunt to accuse us of being insensitive,&#8221; Pauline told me. &#8220;It had to be to intimidate U.S. Airways to ease up on security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So far, U.S. Airways refuses to be intimidated, even though the feds have launched an investigation. &#8220;We are absolutely backing this crew,&#8221; Rader said. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fall I flew on 14 USAirways flights. As I learn more about the imams incident, I am more grateful for how USAirways handled matters. About Those Imams: Contrary to press accounts that a single note from a passenger triggered the imams&#8217; removal, Captain John Howard Wood was weighing multiple factors. and So the captain &#8230; <a title=\"Thank You, US Airways\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/thank-you-us-airways\/\" aria-label=\"More on Thank You, US Airways\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-4k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}