Originally Posted by
Cyba
Whether we like the age of social media, or not, downgrading someone with 438,000 followers on Twitter is a stupid mistake.
And how should LH know who has how many followers or about the perceived importance of those internet personas? Maybe in the good old days they could have a list of VIPs to treat differently but since the youtube, facebook and twitter days everybody could be a net-personality with dozens of thousands of followers. Even for Sports, Media, Poltics etc the sheer number of people who think they are special and famous became massive nowadays.
And from my personal experience some of those are nasty whiny self-centered DYKWIA brats with bad manners and even worse tamper. For those, you can do right, no matter what you do. (not saying this is applicable for this case)
Originally Posted by
Cyba
As for compensation, do we know where he was heading? Maybe EU rules don't apply to him?
LH is an European Airline, so doesn't matter where they go, EU rules apply.