Delta Airlines unique way of dealing with a passenger with MS

[DoyleG]

 

[dogbazinho]

I don't have a problem with the overbooking but the compensation. United's compensation game needs to be upped. If you don't have volunteers it's because you are not compensating enough. 800 dollars is simply not enough for potential hours of delays and all the hassle and complications along with it. They should keep upping the $ amount until someone volunteers.

 

[dogbazinho]

The airline reserves the right to remove anyone from the airplane they deem fit, it's under Conditions of Carriage (like the Apple Terms and Conditions) -- the **** you never read.

It's not that simple. There is a section of the CoC which discusses the criteria to which someone can be removed from a plane. Think safety issues, disruptions, inappropriate behavior etc. This passenger met none of those criteria. There is a later section where they can deny boarding to anyone for overbooking but never define "boarding," which is suprising considering the CoC defines several dozen terms in their first section labeled, "definitions."

Common sense would say you've boarded once you've sat down but the airlines will claim its till the airplane pulls away from the gate. Regardless the bad PR will cost them and I suspect a jury of peers, should it come to that, will side with common sense. It's also very negligent for them not to define that term in the CoC.

 

[someguy44]

Delta will offer up to $9,950 to flyers who will give up their seats.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/delta-overbooked-compensation-1.4071453

I think I would give up my seat if it went up to 3 or 4 k if it's an international flight. Longest flight I was on was around 15-16 hours so it will take at least that much and a free hotel room for the night for me to give up my seat. For a much shorter flight, double or triple the amount of my ticket cost plus a free ride on the next available flight to my destination would be sufficient (and a free hotel room if the next flight isn't till the next day).

 

[Jumptheshark]

the other airlines are just piling it on

 

[brian_griffin]

Not to get OT, but I'm pretty sure Vicodin is a pain killer. How does it make men better at sex?

 

[John Price]

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/business/american-airlines-video-stroller.html

American Airlines suspended a flight attendant after an altercation on Friday in which the attendant took a stroller from a woman traveling with two young children and then argued with other passengers. The episode was captured, in part, on video.

The encounter, at San Francisco International Airport, occurred while the woman was boarding a Texas-bound flight. The attendant, whose name was not released by the airline, grabbed the stroller from the woman, who was carrying 15-month-old twins, a passenger who was nearby said.

A video that circulated on social media showed the attendant nearly coming to blows with another passenger who threatened him after the altercation with the woman.

Just film any instances of unprofessional service you see. Film it all. Everyone must be held accountable

 

[Jumptheshark]

Let recap the month for United Airlines

1) The seat scrap

2) Scorpian bites man on flight

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/13/canadian-man-stung-scorpion-united-airlines-flight/

3) Now a Rabbit that was flying and was predicted to grown into the largest in the world dies in it's cargo hold

http://www.tmz.com/2017/04/25/united-airlines-would-be-worlds-biggest-rabbit-dies-on-flight/

If I was working for United PR- would ask WTF is next?

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Let recap the month for United Airlines

1) The seat scrap

2) Scorpian bites man on flight

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/13/canadian-man-stung-scorpion-united-airlines-flight/

3) Now a Rabbit that was flying and was predicted to grown into the largest in the world dies in it's cargo hold

http://www.tmz.com/2017/04/25/united-airlines-would-be-worlds-biggest-rabbit-dies-on-flight/

If I was working for United PR- would ask WTF is next?

A crash?? Or a missing flight scenerio???

 

[Hunter Gathers]

Of course it died at O'Hare Airport.

More like No'Hare.

 

[Xelebes]

More like Oh! Hare!

 

[jw2]

I don't travel with bunnies and I'm not an idiot. All this means is lower ticket costs.

 

[tarheelhockey]

I don't see why the rabbit thing is their fault. It died in the cargo hold, where they haven't yet started tasering passengers.

 

[Go Habs Go]

Boycott them

Let a newer, more hungry airline company take their place. Survival of the fittest

 

[John Price]

They settled

 

[Jumptheshark]

http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/27/news/companies/united-airlines-dao-settlement/

they needed this to go away leading into peak travel season

 

[jw2]

Boycott them

Let a newer, more hungry airline company take their place. Survival of the fittest

Nah. I'll fly the cheapest airline. I'm not the dumbass that offered to give up my seat, then refused, then resisted arrest. That guy knew exactly what he was doing. Not the first time he's been involved in scketchy stuff!

But hey, please boycott. Even cheaper seats and I can have the entire row to myself.

 

[aleshemsky83]

Nah. I'll fly the cheapest airline. I'm not the dumbass that offered to give up my seat, then refused, then resisted arrest. That guy knew exactly what he was doing. Not the first time he's been involved in scketchy stuff!

But hey, please boycott. Even cheaper seats and I can have the entire row to myself.

Did something new come out? Far as I know he never offered

 

[Jumptheshark]

Nah. I'll fly the cheapest airline. I'm not the dumbass that offered to give up my seat, then refused, then resisted arrest. That guy knew exactly what he was doing. Not the first time he's been involved in scketchy stuff!

But hey, please boycott. Even cheaper seats and I can have the entire row to myself.

what LAW did he break that put him in position to be arrested?

 

[jw2]

Did something new come out? Far as I know he never offered

He originally volunteered to give up seat, found out next flight wasn't until next day, then retracted.

 

[Shrimper]

He originally volunteered to give up seat, found out next flight wasn't until next day, then retracted.

He was a doctor with patients to meet. He might have believed a flight would be later that night or they told him this.

You can retract volunteering, not against the law.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

He was a doctor with patients to meet. He might have believed a flight would be later that night or they told him this.

You can retract volunteering, not against the law.

Those guys w/ ED needed their Vicodin

 

[Jumptheshark]

and now Delta gets into the game

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...g-to-break-up-a-fight/?utm_term=.730c4d45658b

 

[jw2]

He was a doctor with patients to meet. He might have believed a flight would be later that night or they told him this.

You can retract volunteering, not against the law.

Did he make it to the appointments??

 

[DoyleG]

Well, United stock is trading pretty close to the level they were at before all this happened. In fact, they we higher on Thurs before they tailed off.