[USMCVet]

This article has resonance with some of my own recent experiences with airlines - particularly US Airways: late flights, overbooking, insensitive and discourteous support personnel, lost baggage. It used to be that you paid your money, you got your reservation, your boarded and you flew. Now you pay your money, get your reservation - and you may or may not fly anytime soon. They can do whatever they want to maximize profits.

Now we find that if we get upset with the situation, they could call the police and get you dragged off in manacles..

We need to stand up to this and all other cases where we find ourselves paying for abusive treatment instead of honest travel. I for one will never again travel on US Airways or Mesa.

[BCrago66]

Maybe I should short USAir stock, and give the proceeds to the Gotbaum family. But that gesture wouldn’t bring back their loved one.