Originally Posted by bcl00
Do you think they "stiffed" him (the dead guy) on the mileage for that flight.
No.
Originally Posted by bcl00
I bet somewhere in the fine print it says that if you are deceased before arrival you do not receive your ff mileage.
You're on. I'll take that bet. How much?
Once your boarding pass has been scanned, you're set. A wise frequent flyer will keep his program passwords with his important papers, so the miles can be used post-mortem.
Originally Posted by suzy1K
On a trans-Atlantic flight, my friend was in First when an elderly gentleman had a massive (fatal) heart attack. . . . They did CPR on him for 30 min but to no avail. [W]hen the plane made an emergency medical stop in Iceland, that was it. The gentleman was taken off and his wife accompanied the body. I'm sure it was lonely for her in Iceland with no UA staff to liaison.
Why not take the deceased to his destination? That was the contract of carriage. What was their connection with Iceland? I would have argued against removing my spouse's corpse. If the airline insisted, I would not have gotten off, and would have held the airline liable for any additional expense.
A body doesn't decompose and become a health hazard
that fast, does it?