Originally Posted by
arctikjon
Because they don't have to... Could they have? Sure... Honestly they probably should have. We all know that holding an airline ticket is not an ironclad promise that you will get to the destination at the time stamped on the front of it. Accordingly you have to give your self a buffer in the event something happens. If I have a meeting first thing Tuesday I don't take a Monday night flight. We also don't know for certain that UA didn't try to accommodate them on alternate airlines. If this was a flight later in the day its entirely possible that seats on other flights simply didn't exist especially considering this was a family so they needed several seats on the same flight. Regardless they had to choose between getting home that day and staying in those seats.
They chose to remain and then decided to make it a media event... I just dont have a ton of tolerance for that kind of behavior.
I don't have a ton of tolerance for airlines that would allow passengers to fly on aircraft that have not been properly cleaned after someone has vomited.
Nor do I have much tolerance or respect for anyone who thinks that such behavior by an airline is acceptable.
Originally Posted by
Eric Westby
Why the snide hyperbole? No one is suggesting "it is the passengers fault." It was just your earlier post encouraging lawsuits that crushed my proverbial spirit.
Perhaps you should read the earlier posts again. If someone is taking a position other than the airline was in the wrong, they are blaming the passengers. Full stop.
Originally Posted by
JBord
I'm surprised that people are actually arguing about this. When the vomit was discovered, UA should have called a cleaning crew back until it was sanitized. There's no other acceptable response.
Throwing a blanket on it, seriously?
I've seen it happen before takeoff a few times in my life, and every time a cleaning crew was called in. Last time was just a couple months ago, ORD-SEA.
Precisely.
Originally Posted by
cjermain
The cleaning crew is not a bunch of random people off of the street!
I wouldn't want to place a bet on that being true.