Originally Posted by
jazzsax
1) We don't even know if AC was at fault (or another airline and they were just the ticketing carrier). Doesn't really tell us where this happened.
This is irrelevant, given that you attacked her character and her motivations. Who did the damage and where it occurred is entirely separate.
Originally Posted by
jazzsax
2) I didn't say it's ok for the airline to take less care. I said get insurance. Businesses and others carry this stuff to cover mission critical circumstances.
How do you know she didn't carry insurance? You sound very certain. And how would insurance have helped her procure new poles in time for the competition?
Originally Posted by
jazzsax
3) I'm happy to criticize when I know the individual in question could have done more.
Done more how, specifically?
Originally Posted by
jazzsax
4) Remember - everyone wants 15 minutes of fame. Wouldn't shock me here with her.
No. We don't. It sounds like you know the athlete personally, given the certainty of the assertions.
Originally Posted by
jazzsax
You're a quasi-professional pole vaulter competing all around and you don't have a backup set of poles? Wow, your redundancy in case of failure is just like AC's IT systems.... the fact she has to rely on trying to get replacements shipped to her or borrowed elsewhere tells me she has no backup plan and puts all her eggs in one basket.
Some people have little understanding on the economics of sports travel, especially if not a sponsored or top-tier athlete. Even then, do you think pro golfers, tennis or hockey players ship secondary bags of clubs, rackets and sticks when they fly? This is of course rhetorical; the answer is no.
Originally Posted by
jazzsax
AC sounds like they are sorting her out.
Where was that written; I must have missed this. Or is this conjecture?