You would pay $45 to enter the meet and find out that the swimmer in the next lane paid $27.50.
You heat would be delayed for 3 hours and you could not go the bathroom. Whereas the event scheduled behind you would have already finished.
TSA (thousands standing around) would search all the swimmers prior to gaining entry to the pool deck. Some lucky winners (90-94 y) would be pulled off for special full body searches.
The shady spots on the pool deck are more expensive.
There is surcharge for using the newest speed suit (!$#@).
Former Member
Women would be thrown out for wearing suits that were too revealing.
All the bathrooms would be unisex and you'd always walk into one that was occupied by an old woman in an unsightly state (a sight I shall never be able to erase from my mind, NEVER).
That is the ONLY preflight safety instruction they should give, and give it at least twice.
Perhpas this belongs in the Non-Swimming section...but...I don't know what US airlines are going to do. In orer to compete on price with the no-frills carriers they would need to slash jobs and sell off equipment (with no buyers). So competing on cost is not an option. And now is not the time to sell "premium" services to the public....
On the bright side, if you competed in the meet often enough, they would give you free drink coupons for beer and wine. If you are a relatively new swimmer, you can still have beer and wine during the meet, it will just cost you $5.
I think the number one thing many of the U.S. airlines could do to save money is to replace their old, inefficient airplanes with newer ones.
Manufactured by Boeing, of course.
They're all no-frills carriers now :)
I more or less agree, but the problem is that United cannot do no-frills as cheaply as Southwest because their fixed costs are too high and they cannot dispose of those assets, and their payroll is too high. Or put another way, United wasn't designed to compete with Southwest so doing so is impossible.
If there's a weather delay in an outdoor pool, everyone is held hostage in the men's or women's locker rooms for 12 hours without any ventilation, running water, or working toilets. :eek:
Dolphin 2
If airlines ran swim meets, 10 people would be entered in an eight-lane race. Two would get bumped.
Of course, if you got to your event early and there was space available in an earlier event, you could swim that one instead (unless your swim meet is called Southwest).
