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posted by martyb on Sunday May 07 2017, @12:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the didn't-get-the-memo dept.

We had two Soylentils submit stories about a family being ordered off a plane by Delta Airlines.

Forced off a Delta Plane and for Keeping Their Seat

A California family used the seat their 18-year old son didn't use because he left with an earlier flight. They made use of it for their child instead, but were forced off the Delta Air Lines plane and threatened with jail after refusing to give it up on the crowded flight..

View all the raw glory or do it with some commentary.

In other news don't use the bathroom, ask for water, or be autistic.

Last time it was United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time.

Delta Airlines: "Give Up the Seat or You're Going to Jail"

AlterNet reports

Brian Schear, of Huntington Beach, said he and his family were flying overnight from Hawaii to Los Angeles last week when [Delta Airlines] employees asked them to give up the seat where their 2-year-old son was sitting, reported KABC-TV.

[...] "You have to give up the seat or you're going to jail, your wife is going to jail and they'll take your kids from you," Schear recalled the flight attendant saying.

Delta employees wanted the family to hold the young child in their laps during the flight, but Schear argued that they had bought the boy a ticket because he needed to sit in his car seat to sleep.

An employee inaccurately told the family the boy needed to sit in a seat with an adult, because the airline's website recommends that children under 2 years old should sit in an approved child seat in a ticketed seat of their own.

The entire family was ordered off the plane, and they stayed overnight in a hotel and bought new tickets the following day, reported KTLA-TV

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BTW, can someone tell me what ecver= in a YouTube URL means?

Previous:
Male American Airlines Flight Attendant Hits Mother of Twins with Stroller
United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time
Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight


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  • (Score: 2) by Whoever on Sunday May 07 2017, @03:47PM (3 children)

    by Whoever (4524) on Sunday May 07 2017, @03:47PM (#505867) Journal

    I think that there is fault on both sides. I think it likely that the 18-year old was not checked-in, leading to his seat being reassigned.

    However, Delta failed to give the family a refund for their tickets, after bogus threats of jail time, so clearly there is fault on the part of the airline.

    Frankly, given the recent incidents in the news, I cannot imagine what these airline employees were thinking.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by sjames on Sunday May 07 2017, @07:27PM (1 child)

    by sjames (2882) on Sunday May 07 2017, @07:27PM (#505951) Journal

    There's the problem. They made no effort to figure out what was going on or to amicably resolve the problem, they just started lying about the laws and regulations and making outrageous (and patently false) threats, including threatening a parent with losing their child! They treated the family's every attempt to provide information in hopes of a resolution to the obvious (to them) confusion as a flat refusal to RESPECT THEIR AUTHORITI.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @01:02AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @01:02AM (#506097)

      everybody in this country is turning into little authoritarians. listen to the condescending tone in the second woman's/plane skank's voice. you are under her and she's going to make sure you do what you're told, preferably while groveling. the only thing these people understand or respect is power. they think because their industry is in bed with the tsa they can treat you like slaves. of course, they just watched you get herded through the lines while being molested or irradiated like little suck ass sheep. not to blame the victim but what kind of dumb whore is still flying at this point? like everything's fine and it's just transportation. make them motherfuckers go out of business. a nationwide boycott would end the tsa and the airlines attitude real fucking quick. Or let the industry die. Every time the scum in washington think they can dictate to the people just stop funding it, jackasses. sell outs sell out though i guess huh?

  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Monday May 08 2017, @09:50AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Monday May 08 2017, @09:50AM (#506270) Journal
    If the 18-year-old took an earlier flight, presumably he was re-booked and so had all of the available refunds (plane tickets are often non-refundable) applied against his new ticket. It sounds as if these people were trying to commit fraud by using a cancelled ticket.
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