Newsstand - Plane truth sometimes hard to come by

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15905904&BRD=1675&PAG=461&dept_id=18168&rfi=6

Heading home from Oakland, Calif., last week after spending the holidays with her sisters, Lesley Lane found herself in the Atlanta airport waiting for her Delta connection to Philadelphia. It was at the gate that she spotted six soldiers still dressed in their desert fatigues, hoping to catch the same plane.

Interesting story. Yet another example of the Airlines making up facts and rules to suit themselves, instead of being honest with passengers. Shame on you Delta Air Lines.

Indeed shame on Delta. There have been many posts on other threads about passengers willingly giving up their seats to returning servicemen with no flack from the airline.

I also think the reporter dropped the ball when he didn't pick up on this:
Anthony Black suggested I simply didn’t understand the way airlines work.

"The bigger issue," he said, "is creating a situation of displacing a revenue passenger for a person who is flying standby."

The last time I looked, standby tickets weren't free tickets. Those tickets were paid for by someone. So why would it matter if one paying passenger was replaced by another paying passenger?