Posted on 02/20/2021 9:59:12 AM PST by conservative98
The basics of Ted Cruz’s trip to Cancun
This past Wednesday Ted Cruz flew from Houston to Cancun on United Airlines with his family. While he tried to fly under the radar (no pun intended), this was making national headlines by Thursday, as people caught onto what was happening.
Cruz started by throwing his kids under the bus, as one does, claiming he was just trying to be a good dad, and was just dropping his kids off, and would fly back on Thursday:
“With school canceled for the week, our girls asked us to take a trip with friends. Wanting to be a good dad, I flew down with them last night and am flying back this afternoon. My staff are in constant communication with state and local leaders to get to the bottom of what happened in Texas.”
Text messages revealed a different story, though. Heidi Cruz (Ted Cruz’s wife) had texted friends in Houston, stating their house was “FREEZING,” and inviting others to join them at the Ritz-Carlton Cancun (where they’ve stayed “many times”), and stated that rooms were $309 per night.
At this point people started looking at the upgrade list for the United flight from Cancun to Houston, noticing that Cruz was just barely missing the upgrade.
Again, Cruz claimed he was just dropping off his kids, but then it was revealed that Cruz had actually changed his flight. A source at United clearly accessed his reservation, and reported that at around 6AM on Thursday he changed his return flight from Saturday to Thursday.
Cruz eventually admitted this, and said “it’s been a tough week.”
United Airlines now investing data leak Most of the information about Cruz’s trip to Mexico was made public through “legitimate” means — there were pictures of him at the airport, his name was on the public upgrade list, etc. However, there’s one detail that someone could get in trouble for.
Specifically, someone had leaked that Cruz had changed his flight from returning on Sunday to returning on Thursday. Politico reports that United Airlines is now investigating this, and that the person who made the leak could be terminated:
“It’s against United’s policies to share personal information about our customers and we are investigating this incident.”
The airline states nothing is “off the table,” and the outcome depends on if they can figure out with certainty who disclosed this information.
Employees with access to United’s reservations system can easily see the record of flight changes that have been made. United can also easily tell who accessed Cruz’s record, either just to view it, or to make an actual change. The catch is that I’d bet quite a few employees had looked into this (purely out of curiosity), which might make it tough to figure out who the actual leak was.
Flight attendant union tells United to drop it Sara Nelson, the President of the Association of Flight Attendants (often referred to as the most powerful flight attendant in America), is telling United to drop this investigation, saying that they are “all the leak.” She stated that Ted Cruz is “not a customer,” but rather that “he’s a public servant who has lied too many times.”
Bottom line
Ted Cruz’s trip to Mexico has created a lot of controversy. The trip itself aside, he first threw his kids under the bus and then lied about it. That lie was exposed when an airline employee revealed that he had in fact changed his itinerary to return on Thursday rather than Saturday.
United Airlines is now investigating the incident, and threatening to terminate the employee behind it. I’ll be curious to see if anything comes of this — I wouldn’t be surprised if quite a few United employees had accessed Cruz’s record, which could make it tough to definitely tell who actually leaked the information.
Lol.
Thanks, Mitt.
Always deflecting, that Mitt.
Wait....so did Lyin Ted, on everything about this stupid trip choice.
🤔
IBTZ, begone troll.
Good point.
Only, not just XiDen. Many an Open Borders RINO have made that same claim.
I suspect the poodle leaked the info, as payback for not going to Cancun with the rest of the family.
“Welcome,” new poster.
Illegals use power.
Ugh. Union leaders are obnoxious thugs. She is such an idiot, does not realize this does not help United’s flight attendants.
If that Thursday flight was full and he was on the standby list, that is pretty much public info. Doesn't take rocket science to see this on the list and know who that is.
CRU, T
They weren’t flying alone. Their mom is with them, and the Daily Mail made sure to get plenty of footage of her on the beach with her kids in sunny Mexico. Ted was at least smart enough to come home and not be filmed enjoying himself on the beach while the state of Texas which he represents is dealing with such hardship.
Sounds to me like the airline is making a much bigger deal out of this with their leaks and all other information they have released/spoken up about.
[[Ted Cruz’s trip to Mexico has created a lot of controversy]]
Only In the minds of small minded people
This is why Democrats always take private jets. :)
Never thought of that possibility.
We had a poodle when I was a teen, 50 years ago. When my shift was over at work, I'd call my mom to pick me up. I let the phone ring once, then hung up...that was the signal.
She must have been occupied, because she didn't get ready to leave for a few minutes. The dog got her attention, then she looked at the clock, "it must be time to pick up the boy!"
Our dog is pretty smart, too, a 95 pound Rotten Shepherd. She'll come in and lick my hand when she needs to go outside. You can't say the word "walk" around her, cause she knows that word, too.
All I did was mention what my flight attendant friend said about not letting my kids travel alone. Just take that as a warning as I did.
how’d they get the text messages??
“his name was on the public upgrade list”
Which is only displayed on the kiosk with three letter contractions. Unless you know the contraction applies to you the names are usually not apparent.
It’s an agent logging into the system who noted the name and gave it up. Not just a company infraction but a TSA violation.
NY Times reporter calls house. Poodle answers. Reporter realizes whats going on. “Whoof when you hear the correct flight number from the following...”.
It’s good advice, but it didn’t apply to Ted in this situation as he seems to keep implying as an excuse for why he went.
Not exactly - on the United app too.
I think we can give that a rest now my FRiend.
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