This is absolutely amazing to me.
What on earth has
FlyerTalk degenerated into?
Someone, a good, constructive member of our
FlyerTalk community, posts asking for assistance and for hints/tips on how to resolve an unfortunate situation, and (while some FTers did respond with suggestions to resolve the situation as it sits) most of the posts gratuitously berate the parents, the poor girl, and everyone else in sight for real or imagined sins
that in no way help the existing situation.
In case everyone has forgotten, I quote the OP:
Originally Posted by
hulagrrl210
A family friend's teenage daughter had her flight cancelled (IAD-SFO) due to weather and the soonest United says they can put her on a flight is Monday?!?! I checked on Ita and United and they show some availability for today and then flights are wide open over the weekend? How is that possible? Any tips I can pass along to her family help get her home safely?
The girl doesn't have any status with the airline, but Monday seems a bit unreasonable! Thanks in advance for the help!
To the people who offered constructive suggestions, thanks. You are a credit to the community.
To the drive-by snipers, who quite frankly seem to be in the majority of the posters on this thread, you should be ashamed of yourselves. If you think this is what
FlyerTalk is all about, you certainly don't understand why
FlyerTalk was begun, or what it was about for many years. Perhaps you'd be more at home looking for car wrecks and beating on the injured, if that's what turns you on. If you can't offer something constructive, you're not helping.
(To the snipers -- don't tell me you were just trying to be constructive. If you want to point out how such a situation might be avoided in the future, then make a suggestion saying that -- say "what you might want to consider next time is . . ." or something similar. Saying "why didn't you . . . ." or "this is what you get for not thinking ahead" does not in any way help solve the current situation, unless of course you have a time machine and are offering to loan it to the parents of the distressed flyer.)
I am appalled! This is not the
FlyerTalk I knew and loved. I hope we get back to trying to help each other rather than trying to berate and belittle someone who asks for our help.