Posted on 07/23/2017 10:23:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
DVT that is...
One of two things happened. Either Coulter was vicimized by a racist liberal, or the woman who got favored treatment meant something to a Delta employee with the power to make this happen.
If the second, the employee for whom the strings were pulled is high enough up the food chain that he or she is above reproach.
I did have a bad experience once with Lufthansa once when I flew from Kansas City via Frontier Airlines and then Lufthansa from Chicago to Stuttgart, Germany. The Flight attendants were very snobbish that I swore I would never fly with Lufthansa and never have.
My daughter is calling them tomorrow to demand a refund. She was given the full coulter treatment last week and had the thrill of sleeping on the floor at laGuardia baggage claim. They closed the terminal and kicked everyone one out.
It’s not so much the inconvenience as the rude, arrogant attitude on the part of Delta.
What would you do if they treated you like that?
When I was younger I always chose the windows seats because I wanted to look out the window, but now I am sort of handicapped, I have to walk with a cane as I have a degenerative disjoint decease and a degenerative hip joint decease. I have no strength in my right leg and am unable to use it with out a cane to walk. I used to be able to walk quite fast when I was younger and miss the time. Thank God I can still drive though.
I had this almost exact thing happen to me. Delta gave my exit aisle seat to someone else so they could be by their someone else. They didn’t say a word. I got the new seat information via a printout after my original pass was scanned. I probably Fly more than she does. I complained the instant I saw the new seat and held up the line. There was some fussing but I got a decent seat. I would say the aftermath was Anne being treated the way you would expect the politically socially liberal Delta people to treat her. Up till then it was Delta treating her like they treat us all.
You are making an assumption that isn't valid.
Some seats in the exit row have less leg room because of equipment stored under there and some seats in the bulkhead and exit row have other restricted space. Seat 15A has a short seat and arm rest - maybe to make room for people exiting the plane in an emergency.It definitely would not be as comfortable as the exit row.
No question in my mind - Coulter was targeted. I'd bet good money the people who got the seat she paid for were non-rev family members of some flight attendant.
People who fly a lot always check the seating maps and the internet forums to choose their seats. 15A is not a desirable seat.
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Just looked on TripAdvisor.
$250 to $800 more for first class.
And if you’re traveling with family, quadruple that.
You are the right kind of traveler for today’s airlines.
One person who flies weekly.
I’m not.
I need more than one ticket and I don’t fly weekly.
There are a lot of great vacation spots I can drive to.
Free advice for Delta:
Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel. ~ Mark Twain
I might have.
I am not a cheerleader for Delta.
I choose to not fly with them based on my past experiences with them.
You do if we here at Delta tell you you do, passenger scum.
If you read Flyertalk or the other websites where frequent travelers hang out they would very much disagree with you about the frequency of upgrades to first class.
Airlines are working with a different business model now. Upgrades used to be very easy to snag - maybe 90% of the time by choosing the right flights. Now you have to be Diamond, Executive Platinum or Concierge Key to *maybe* get upgraded. The airlines are targeting coach passengers via email or at check-in time, offering them first class for $100 or so. Frequently, it’s an employee or some flight attendant’s parents up there in first class, not frequent flyers. It’s not like the old days.
Maybe write a letter to their VP .. or maybe nothing. Every once in a while you encounter someone rude in life. Many times you move on. Other times go the mat. It depends.
I am in my sixties and have been flying a long time. I can’t recall any airline employee being excessively rude to me. I do occasionally observe hot-headed passengers though. But even that is rare. But all of this stuff is petty compared to what our fathers and grandparents went through.
On this story — I am more concerned about the angle of possible discrimination towards conservatives. That’s a different matter. We can’t let companies in general believe it is fair game to treat conservatives like the Nazi’s treated jews in the early years of their regime ... and get away with it. Not comparing airlines to Nazi’s. Just talking about societies that openly allow discrimination against a group. We have to nip that in the bud.
Good. I'd hate to have to invoke Godwins's Law!
What was their excuse for closing the terminal?
Exactly
This was the first thing I thought when I heard about this incident earlier, except for an entirely different reason. Had this happened to some liberal celebrity, like Chelsea Clinton, I could envisage Ann Coulter writing a column telling her to 'toughen up, Buttercup' because everyone gets inconvenienced at times. I'm sure she would have given a lot of unsolicited advice on not being a drama queen.
An unheated cattle car is better than United. But Delta has screwed up a lot in the past few weeks. I was one of hundreds stranded in Atlanta two weeks ago when dozens of connections were missed by minutes. The Delta gate agents closed the doors early. The planes sat on the runways for hours while Delta had to bus people to local hotels. A total mess...
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