Originally Posted by
PhlyingRPh
Well I'm just curious what you would do if you showed up at the gate for your next with a boarding pass in hand a full ninety minutes before departure and were asked to stand aside while other passengers were allowed to board, and were then told that you could not travel because you arrived late, that you would have to pay a $77 fee if you wanted to take an alternative flight, and BTW there were no more flights till tomorrow and you would have to pay for your own accomodations that night? Really, what would you do? I'm genuinely curious, because the airline will say you were late and you clearly "have not taken responsibility for your own actions" by arriving late at the gate.
Given the complaints seen over not getting a glass of soda before takeoff, or having to watch a FA take the foil cover off of their dinner, I imagine it would not be taken quietly.
If any of us were treated the way the pilgrims claimed to be treated, I sure most of us would go ballistic. We would use the biggest stick we have to get NW's attention. But for most of us that is at best TTU and the threat of taking our business elsewhere. Some of us with attorneys in the family might have taken it a step further. The size of the stick often grows exponentially w.r.t. the number people involved. I think if it had been 40 nuns back from Rome we'd have heard from the Archbishop -- or 40 students from UM we'd have heard from the Univ. President.