News and notes from around the interweb:
- My unpopular opinion is that when you buy a plane ticket, you’re buying more than just movement from place to place. Your seat is part of the product, and if the airline doesn’t deliver it they haven’t given you what you paid for. You should get a refund, or at least a discount – automatically, without asking for it.
Hey @AmericanAir as both a handyman and pilot my compliments on the use of duct tape! However I prefer to use @GorillaGlue tape over the inferior stuff. If the women can’t find you handsome let them at least find you handy! pic.twitter.com/Rw0XVlyRyd
— Florida Man (@biologistbarlow) December 30, 2024
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- A mockup has been created in an office park on Long Island as a dress rehearsal for New York JFK’s new terminal one
- Everyone’s laughing because this is Frontier, but I’ve been on United Express with no toilet paper, American Eagle with no soap, and plenty of flights have taken off with inoperative toilets. (HT: @crucker)
Come on @FlyFrontier…come on!
(This is a real text from a friend) pic.twitter.com/e4Odrzkp5h
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) December 31, 2024
- Dallas Love Field moves rideshare pickup closer on January 3, eliminating the 10-minute walk they’d imposed. This airport is home to Southwest ‘two bags fly free’ Airlines, 10 minutes with luggage is a pain…
- Happy cabin crew really are the best thing about Southwest Airlines.
S/O to @SouthwestAir for an amazing experience. This employee was so funny she made the experience enjoyable. pic.twitter.com/fno50GoBZJ
— Kinfe (@HabeshaBoyMK) December 30, 2024
“Dallas Love Field moves rideshare pickup closer on January 3, eliminating the 10-minute walk they’d imposed. This airport is home to Southwest ‘two bags fly free’ Airlines, 10 minutes with luggage is a pain…”
More like 15 minutes. The original unannounced change was absurd. New management needed at Love Field.
Yeah, a broken seat deserves a refund and/or compensation, especially when big companies screw over defenseless individual consumers. That is an incredibly popular stance, just not often happening in reality, due to regulatory capture and other corruption, in this industry and others *cough* health insurance *cough* unless it is truly egregious and gets the headlines.
What still surprises me is the continued phenomenon of corporate bootlickers, astroturfing occasionally in comment sections here and certainly elsewhere. I expect the typical foes will race to defend the super rich (where the Elon fan-boys at?) at the expense of everyone else, but fellas, you ain’t gettin’ paid enough (or at all) by those greedy, selfish oligarchs, so stop carrying water for them. And this isn’t a ‘but when I am rich, I’ll get to mistreat the peasants the way the rich mistreated me’ because that time never comes, and what a horrible way to live, seeking to harm others for spite. Instead of lifting up ladders behind you, be a class hero. Fight for the people, for once. We deserve better. All of us.
“My unpopular opinion is that when you buy a plane ticket, you’re buying more than just movement from place to place. Your seat is part of the product, and if the airline doesn’t deliver it they haven’t given you what you paid for. You should get a refund, or at least a discount – automatically, without asking for it”. Well said, Gary !!! Just arrived back in Austin yesterday, traveling on an AA RJ from O’Hare that had no AAInflight service. The FA noted that AAInflight was frequently not operating on that aircraft, which as I recall is something that you have also touched on in the past. AA doesn’t care, and wouldn’t even offer compensation if I asked for it. Wake up, AA !!!
My issue is that I paid for a first class ticket on a 77W LAX MIA on Saturday, 12/28. Due to overbooking, I was bumped and given a “J” seat. I am CK so very surprised this happened, but it did! I should be refunded the fare difference, but I have yet to see it. CK desk said it would be refunded. Meanwhile, as I have not yet received it, AA has my money and I did not receive the seat I paid for. When I paid for the ticket, the charge was reflected immediately on my credit card, so why am I not getting credited for the refund? AA is quick to take your money but slow when they owe you. So it seems that I did not get the seat I paid for!
If that duct tape ain’t FAA approved in crashes, I’m not sure that should qualify to fly. That’s my $0.02.
I can not legally put a kid in a broken car seat . But I can sit in a broken airline seat!
What are they now the quality of a folding chair? It wouldn’t take much to damage them.
Since the flight prices are completely based on the seat you select, if the seat does not perform as sold, then A DISCOUNT IS DUE. There should be no controversy about this.
If airlines refuse to guarantee seat quality, then Congress needs to outlaw seat hierarchy.
I’d be shocked if my refund for a flight on Saturday 12/28 was received before the new year. My problem is that they often, I’m told, give the difference between what is paid and what the costliest price of your downgraded seat, not what you would mist likely to have paid. I was, however, pleased with my reimbursement from DL for a J to Y downgrade because of the stupid BOS A to E trek.
I had a Business Class flight LAX-LHR and seat would not recline. 10 hours upright sitting. Was Exec Plat at that time. No compensation even after complaining to HDQ.
After this incident I abandoned OneWorld and went to Star, burning my AA miles. This was about 8 years ago.