Delta flight attendant threatens parents with jail while booting family from overbooked flight

[DonViejo]

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/watch-delta-flight-attendant-threatens-parents-with-jail-while-booting-family-from-overbooked-flight

[benld74]

1. Guess Delta didn't hear recent news??

[madaboutharry]

2. I don't understand this at all.

When my children were babies I always paid for a ticketed seat and put them in their infant carriers next to me and buckled them in. I remember even having a conversation with a flight attendent telling me how smart I was to buy my baby a ticket because it is impossible to hold on to your baby if something goes wrong.

This really makes no sense to me.

[tiptonic]

6. I hate it

but trying to hold a baby, in a emergency landing etc:, is a million to one shot. Not safe at all.

[DK504]

8. The obvious fact that more and more people fly,

kinda as much as we drive, these over bookings are insane. Everyone is showing up for their flights and now they keep do this idiocy?

5 years ago buying a seat for your child was, and still is the safest way to go, these gate agents and flight attendants are making this shit up as they go. If they kick a person off a flight for overbooking they have to pay for a hotel.

I hope this guy gets a lawyer.

[Plucketeer]

3. Corpratocracy nt

[LiberalLovinLug]

4. I don't get why he couldn't hold the baby like he offered.

At first she said that is what he had to do in order for the plane to take off. His argument was that they had paid for the extra seat and were planning to strap him in to the car seat after takeoff. But near the end he reneged and asked for clarification that if one of them held the baby, the whole flight I presume, could they take off. Deltas response seemed to be at that point they were being kicked off regardless, I guess for simply causing a disruption.

Also, so the order from Delta was at first, for this couple to take the baby out of the seat they had paid for, and hold their infant the whole way, so some other passenger could come on board and take that seat on this over-booked flight. Why not just tell the passenger not boarded yet that too bad, he/she would have to take a later flight? Wouldn't that have been less disruptive overall? To have an upset flyer in the airport waiting area rather than an disruptive event on the plane itself?

I hope they get a big payout from this. He was perfectly calm and reasonable the whole way through.

[MrModerate]

5. The airlines' objective is clearly to normalize this thug behavior . . .

Absorbing whatever PR or payoff penalties that accrue, until we're all completely inured to it and they can carry on unremarked.

Social engineering at its most basic.

[Joe Chi Minh]

7. Wow! I think you've got it. Though the depravity of the

passenger airlines' corporate culture must be deeply ingrained, anyway. 'A sow will retrurn to its vomit', as I believe Scripture puts it.