[q] From Jimworcs: What are you talking about? That is a ridiculous analogy. I am saying when a flight is overbooked, the airline has to select some passengers who will be denied boarding.[/q]
Actually the op does state that it was mentioned to his wife that the flight was overbooked. this would mean that Delta should have solicited volunteers. The reason why the OP does not mention this, it's because he was not there until well after. Overbooking sucks jim, no question, and I'm a believer that such a thing shouldn't happen no matter what the no-show ratio is or whatever the airlines call it that makes them do it, it simply should not be done. Also, and this is from a person who's been in that overbooked situation (but never getting the compensation because miraculously a seat appeared), but the airline personel do not select people to be on the oversold list, it happens during check in, when you arrive and you have no seat assignment meaning it would look like this (--) with instructions to check in at the gate. How does a computer know the difference between people? Yea you can input that data but the computer is still a machine. Sure the agent knows, but now they have to ask people to give up their seats and if these people, who can see a mom and baby waiting to get a seat choose not to, then do we then blame them for not being human? Noooooooo we blame the airline, who actually stands to lose money because they have to give these people back money PLUS pay to put them on another airline. The OP could have chosen to work something out that was beneficial to his wife, Delta has no choice but to do so, it was their fault they overbooked, but the OP chose to walk away and take his refund with him. That was a dumb move no matter how you look at it. Oh and Reham, you can't say it wasn't about the money because you talk about it in the last two paragraphs.
Oh and jim, glad to see you back around these parts. Even though we choose to agree to disagree, your still get cool points in my book. Butch I've just decided to ignore all your post, really since you choose to go off on tangents and talk about things that have nothing to do with what's being talked about while repeating the same lines over and over "blah blah blah, call the cops blah blah blah go amtrak and lufthansa blah blah blah I am a puffer fish look at how big i can get... please? pretty please look at me?" sad....
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