Originally Posted by
transportbiz
Indeed seats MAY be lost, but to threaten customers this is absurd. They would and should be accommodated on other flights as any other IRROPS situation. Also, to suggest they'd lose their connecting flights? It would seem to me, the airline did that anyway with an 8 hour tarmac wait.
So, if I get off the plane, rent a car, and get myself to DEN in time for my schedule connecting flight, I'd lose it? Doesn't seem at all reasonable to me.
This.
Plus since when can a F/A or even a pilot, and from a contract carrier no less, make such threats? It is like a cop saying what someone will be charged with. It is up to the D.A to decide that, not a street cop. Pilots and F/As have no say in how tickets work or don't work.