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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

Video

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

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Gaaark on Sunday May 07 2017, @03:49PM (2 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Sunday May 07 2017, @03:49PM (#505871) Journal

    I modded this funny because it IS in a sad way:

    how many times it matters.

    What would your initial thought be if you saw they were Muslim/black/jew/sweet transvestite/Ethanol Fueled/poor white trash (tramp stamp and all) versus:

    a good, nice white bread family.

    Would it happen if it was someone like Hillary Clinton with grandkids? YOu bet your sweet jackalope nope, no matter what the sityation.

    Funny.... but sad.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @07:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @07:53PM (#505961)

    You missed the part where a surname was given in the summary: Brian Schear, of Huntington Beach. Had none been given, the GP might have had a point. As it is, he just looks lazy.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @10:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @10:21PM (#506021)

    There is video documentation and other written documentation to go by. Not much need to use prejudgement. Muslims may actually be a security liability as statistics prove. As for black/jew/sweet transvestite/Ethanol Fueled/poor white trash.. who cares.

    I think the most important matter is what factors are involved when the airline makes up their decision process. And in most cases it's their own perverted economic incentives and complete deafness in social reciprocity that makes then end up making an ass of themselves.