Moondog --

All your arguments are quite correct, and I will admit that my "haste" was due to the "CO dead passenger" incident wherein certain passengers wanted something for nothing. I was getting ahead of myself on this story, and I am glad that you have pointed this out to me. Mea culpa!

With respect to Tango,

Although Seattle may be a major metro area, it is nothing like, and hopefully will never be like the NYC metro area (where I reside), where it can be dog eat dog, and many have an "angle."

That being said, your erroneous belief that this is another major PR fiasco, proves my point, as the majority of people on this thread have, at the very least, taken a wait and see attitude, rather than your knee-jerk reflexive attack on NW (and me)that NW is in the wrong and that the passengers are in the right. This very attitude has brought us the likes of those goldiggers from the CO dead passenger story that I was reacting to, and I now see that I was getting ahead of myself. If anything, you are as guilty of prejudging this situation without adequate information, as I was; however, at least in each of my threads, above, I have had the good sense to add the refrain that I would still like additional information before I came to a final decision. Not so, you.

For you, on the other hand, have already come to such a decision, and you have wholeheartedly voiced your assumption that NW is in the wrong, w/o adequate information.
I wonder why you feel compelled to do this and why this is? Is it, perhaps, something in your past that has instigated this reaction of yours?

Further, your continued attacks on my character, as well as your feeble attempt to twist my words, clearly evidence your prejudice and your inability to think dispassionately about this matter.

My mistake was to attempt to counteract your view, and by so doing, I wound up in a vortex of my own making, as you still seem to be content to reside within.

I am grateful to Moondog for pointing this out, and for the moment, then, I will reserve judgment, but will take a skeptical view of this matter until further information develops.

I will not even ask that you do likewise, as it appears that you are emotionally incapable of doing so as you have contined to attack me. Well, c'est la vie.

If you are right that this is costing NW big time in adverse publicity, then there should be a slew of news articles following this up.

However, thus far, I have seen none.

Perhaps you are wrong in your beliefs, and a reevaluation will prove to be necessary. I just hope that it will not prove too painful for you.