News notes from around the interweb:
- Frontier Airlines passenger opened the emergency exit on arrival at Washington National airport on Saturday, deployed and slid down the slide onto the tarmac. The passenger was arrested. There wasn’t even a Steven Slater-esque grabbing a beer and declaring “I Quit” element to it, so it’s really just sad.
- Meanwhile Frontier will give you a $50 voucher for cancelling your trip on top fothe value of the trip, if you do it by March 23. Two things here. Cancel now and you give up the opportunity for a refund if your flights are removed from the schedule later. And Frontier earns a large portion of revenue from fees, they can give a $50 voucher no worries, they occasional run ‘90% off sales’ – they want your future business desperately in any case.
Copyright: zhukovsky / 123RF Stock Photo - SWISS has a sneaky way to prevent customers from getting refunds
- “Rona ain’t gonna get me!!! Not today!”
- The Austin airport on Saturday. This makes me sad.
that Air Marshal (getting arrested at MSP) story is from 2018, BTW.
Since you would have needed a boarding pass to get this pic, why were you traveling three days ago? If EVERYONE in the U.S. would stay isolated for 14 days, we could end this
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/health/coronavirus-restrictions-us.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20200323§ion=topNews&campaign_id=9&instance_id=16988&segment_id=22598&user_id=f4aab6e96f5e084aa8a6860ed9298913®i_id=116907758tion%3DtopNews&fbclid=IwAR2hzEtq9dKWyyZmJYzFDnjqSqre4wPuUXFG9wCf9GmwGf6O-WV0lJzCpbg
tim: a. EVERYONE can’t stay isolated for 14 days. There are healthcare workers, grocery workers, assisted living workers, delivery workers, etc that have to go about their day in order for civilization to continue.
b. This clearly isn’t Gary’s picture. It is from reddit by a guy named “CanYouDigItDeep”, unless for some reason you think that is Gary.
I am not “CanYouDigItDeep” on Reddit (i am viewfromthewing on reddit)
Gary, while I agree with your logic regarding your Frontier “wait to see if it cancels” position, given your post yesterday about airlines playing games with refunds, maybe taking the additional $50 isn’t a bad hedge against the flight not cancelling or potential future headaches getting a refund if it does?