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Old Sep 21, 2005 | 7:17 pm
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Originally Posted by iahphx
I'm sorry, but this kind of behavior by CO is unconscionable. I'd contact your favorite journalist and/or public official. You can't try to tweak the last bit of revenue out of your system when there's a Cat. 5 hurricane bearing down on your major hub. You've got to move your pax to safety while you can -- without making them pay extra for the privilege.
Get this -- I was just EUAd on the EWR-SEA flight I switched to for my outbound trip and for the SEA-IAH portion of my return. Of course, there are now six empty seats in F on the SEA-IAH flight as everyone who can find alternate routings in their fare class is moving away from IAH routings.
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