Jim Bakker did 8 years in Federal Prison for overbooking timeshare resort property.
And marrying Tammy Faye.
The only thing left for the airlines to do is outlaw phones! They used to be able to get away with this bullying of passengers.
This name change regulation makes airlines millions of dollars a year.
Change fees on the worst airline in the world, American Airlines, are already $200. I want to say that I can't imagine they would have the nerve to raise them but since it is the worst airline in the world, they probably will double them. Freepers, if you have ANY choice, do not fly American Airlines!
I watched an ABC news interview with the dad yesterday. One thing I picked up on that I hadn’t heard from others is that he said when they deplaned there were 4 or 5 standby passengers at the gate ready to board. Interestingly enough, delta declined his offer to just hold the kid so the plane could take off and instead kicked the entire family of four off the flight, unrefunded. Then resold those four seats to the standby people. Double dipping much, Delta?
Jim Bakker did 8 years in Federal Prison for overbooking timeshare resort property.
And marrying Tammy Faye.
Liberal-PROGs have taken over the airlines as they did the News Media and no one noticed till Trump became president. :^)
I seem to recall back when the United debacle occurred, that there were Freepers “extolling the virtues” of Delta. And now this! What say you Delta flyers now? The truth is that they are all out of the same rotten mold, because they are run by the same kind of worthless Haavaad MBAs whose only concern is their company’s bottom line which is to say, by extension, their personal bottom line.
Mark Steyn on Tucker was hilarious about this last night. Airline companies are the only entity (aside from the USA!) to have a Bill of Rights for occupants.
To threaten to put someone in jail and put their kids in custody was abusive and worthy of termination. In this case, the passengers were not crazed kooks but logical Americans.
I understand the parents paid for the seat, but why was a passenger of different name on the ticket allowed to board? Seems like a good opening for terrorists??
It may be time to allow foreign-flag carriers to fly between US cities, to get competition.
Glad I’m a SkyMiles Gold Member.
In a genuine unregulated market, passengers would have valid claims for bad faith against the airlines, e.g. conduct not consistent with the passengers reasonable expectations under the contract - to get to his final destination, safely, and without further expense and inconvenience.
It is long since past time that minimum regulatory standards were put in place requring:
1. Adequate leg room, seat space and chair comfort (I can go into any IKEA and find chair backs that are more comfortable than those put in roach class. Really, a piece of foam is a piece of foam - and there is no reason why they cannot be orthopedically conforming as opposed to some other shape).
2. Compensation for cancelled flights - e.g. hotel room, meals, and local transportation. When airlines can cancel flights willy-nilly and at not expense, then they cancel every flight that makes economic sense to cancel as opposed to the extra expense of planning resiliency into the system.
3. Overbooking and bouncing - common guys. Right now it's a rigged lottery with the airline as the bookie getting their action however badly the screw the customers.
In before the crowd here who thinks the Shears are criminals, that the 2 year should have been tazed,and the parents beaten with truncheons.
“Punching seat or Non Punchign seat?”
“Punching please- I need a good whippin”
“Thank you for flying United- have a nice... errrr um ... clot free flight”
Had a good one yesterday, Spirit put too much fuel on board an A319 for a flight from New Orleans to Atlanta and needed 9 “volunteers “ to deplane along with their checked luggage because we were too heavy to take off.
They offered to put them on another airline the same day and a round trip ticket on a future flight.
They had no problem getting the nine people, they got off cheap as far as I’m concerned.
Don’t see how 2500 pounds makes that much of a difference, the plane was about 75 percent full of people to begin with, they must have screwed up real bad and added enough fuel to get to LAX.
I had a friend who would tell me what flights to take to get bumped - and 'win' cash or trips to Hawaii etc... Course back then you didn't go through security and often ran out onto the tarmac and up the stairs to get on a plane. Flying on planes traveling slower than jets that had plenty of leg room and stews offering free meals when trips were over 2 hours...
A nicer slower time... in so many ways.Our world has become courser, meaner and no where near as much fun.
He didn't buy a seat. He bought a contractual right to carriage.
After the Dao incident, the way the airlines are probably going to have to handle passengers like this guy or Dao is to make everyone get off the plane, and then let everyone else back on except for Dao or this guy or whoever they have ordered to leave the plane. A waste of everyone's time, but there you have it.
Any airline that continues to overbook flights is crazy. Don’t they know that people will simply fire up the video phones and refuse to get off, on camera. They will see dollar signs in the air.
The airlines are not going to win this battle and the ones who I feel bad for are the stewards/attendants who have to be the bad guys.
I wondered with the same question. I know a ticket in hand for one person can not be used for a different person. For national security reasons, I get that. It’s reasonable.
The problem is that the Rule protecting passengers from the wicked ones can make no exception for the innocent ones.