According to another article, the flight was changed to a different aircraft with fewer first class seats available and through an automated process, Juvenile (and not his wife) was selected for the downgrade.
I'd be kinda pissed as well and expecting not only a significant refund in the ticket difference but additional compensation via mileage points or something commensurate.
FWIW, I paid extra for an aisle seat on a long flight. The flight was cancelled and I was rebooked with a center seat and zero refund.
I hate the airlines.
I’ve had airlines randomly move me around because I fly solo and people wanted to sit together. What bugs me is they don’t bother to ask, they just do it.
I wouldn’t even think of moving for less than several times the cost of the ticket.
More power to him, it should cost any airline at least as much as the total cost of the flight to mess with *any* passenger. Slap them with a $500K fine for any time they even try to suggest something like this.
Any change from a schedule or plan should **HURT** the SOB who requests it, badly.
I hate the airlines, there is pretty much no penalty I wouldn’t like to see them have to pay any time anything happens, from a flight leaving late to being canceled; make all fines for non-performance equal to the CEO’s bonus.
I’m not a fan of regulation, but regardless of any ‘contract’ supposedly agreed to, being late or not fulfilling all agreements should *HURT* any enterprise, and the bigger the more it should hurt.