OT Delta kicks man and his family off plane

[Chris Craig]

Delta Airlines overbooked a flight from Maui to LA and kicked a man and his family with 2 young kids off a plane to make room using a bogus excuse.

The man paid for the seats his family was using. One of the tickets was originally for his older son, whom he ended up buying another ticket and sending him on an earlier flight. This was so their 2 year old could use the seat and sleep the whole way.
The issue started with this seat. First they said a 2 year old cannot have their own seat. Bullshit. Then they said the ticket didn't have the boys name on it. Etc etc.
The man at first didn't want to give up the seat as he had paid for it. Then offered to do so and hold is son in his lap. The airline instead kicked his whole family off and used the seats for 4 customers whom they had sol overbooked tickets to...which should be illegal. If you don't have the seats available you shouldn't sell them.

What the duck is going on with airlines these days. What a bunch of greedy dickheads.

 

[Natebishop3]

Delta Airlines overbooked a flight from Maui to LA and kicked a man and his family with 2 young kids off a plane to make room using a bogus excuse.

The man paid for the seats his family was using. One of the tickets was originally for his older son, whom he ended up buying another ticket and sending him on an earlier flight. This was so their 2 year old could use the seat and sleep the whole way.
The issue started with this seat. First they said a 2 year old cannot have their own seat. Bullshit. Then they said the ticket didn't have the boys name on it. Etc etc.
The man at first didn't want to give up the seat as he had paid for it. Then offered to do so and hold is son in his lap. The airline instead kicked his whole family off and used the seats for 4 customers whom they had sol overbooked tickets to...which should be illegal. If you don't have the seats available you shouldn't sell them.

What the duck is going on with airlines these days. What a bunch of greedy dickheads.

I read about this all morning, and what you posted is wrong.

It is federal law that the person on the ticket has to occupy the seat that was reserved. He purchased the seat for his older son and then he decided to buy another seat on a different plane and he was going to put his 2 year old in the extra seat. It doesn't work that way. It's not the airlines rule. If the person who is on the ticket doesn't show up, they give the seat to someone on standby. That seems pretty reasonable to me.

Where the airline fucked up is that they overreacted. The guy was willing to hold his kid after the explained that he couldn't use the seat. From what I read, Delta allows kids that age to occupy a seat, but their name has to be on the ticket. OR you can hold the kid for the flight if they're 2 or under. But if you're going to get them their own seat, their name has to be on the ticket. That's the rules. He broke the rules. The airline should have let him just hold the kid, but they kicked him off.

I had heard that they gave the one seat away, where did you hear that they had 4 people?