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Old Aug 23, 2012 | 12:41 pm
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Originally Posted by newyorkgeorge
It seems to me the employee is also at fault. He/she should have known that getting four people on a flight together in summer no less is basically impossible. He/she should have either known that his friend was able to travel as such or withheld giving the passes to the imbecile in the first place.
I agree fully. My frustration was more about how the press chose to portray this as some sob story where JetBlue or SEA is somehow at fault. And as Dadaluma83 mentions, I can just see the kettle interwebz going wacko over this.
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