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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?

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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: 1) by MorePower on Sunday May 07 2017, @04:35PM (1 child)

    by MorePower (5891) on Sunday May 07 2017, @04:35PM (#505888)

    If the kid was a two-year old, they wouldn't have let him on without his own seat. They make you show proof of age (less than 24 months old) if you are going to carry the kid on your lap.
    So was the kid two (and thus must have had his own seat assigned) or was this a lap baby (that must have been a newborn or 1-year old)?

  • (Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Sunday May 07 2017, @08:45PM

    by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Sunday May 07 2017, @08:45PM (#505977) Journal

    There are at least three possible explanations:

    (1) They used the 18-year-old's boarding pass for the 2-year-old.
    (2) They used the 2-year-old's boarding pass for the 2-year-old, but there was also a younger sibling with them too (less than 2). In that case, they put the younger sibling (who was apparently checked in as a "lap baby"?) in the 2-year-old's seat, and put the 2-year-old in the alleged seat of the 18-year-old.
    (3) The parents lied about the age of their 2-year-old. Not all airlines check proof of age all the time. Yes, you should have it with you, because they can check -- but they don't always.

    We don't know which possibility is actually the case here.