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Old Jan 16, 2013, 11:57 am
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Originally Posted by jetta2.0t
No one held a gun to your head and told you to buy tickets on Delta for Spring or Summer in advance. Take some personal responsibility already!! Delta can and does divulge changes at will, this isn't some secret in the airline industry..........or any industry!
It's called "breach of contract", i.e. changing the terms AFTER the purchase.

Edit to add: Just found a previous settlement between frequent fliers and Delta.

"I think the settlement infers that frequent flyers do have rights, said Randy Petersen, publishereditor of InsideFlyer magazine. A lot of people assume the airlines can change their rules at will ... but thats not so.
http://articles.cnn.com/1998-11-17/t...r?_s=PM:TRAVEL

Last edited by Canarsie; Jan 16, 2013 at 2:17 pm Reason: Removed unnecessary bypass of profanity filter.
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