bocastephen

I'm almost at the point of creating a Zapier script to post "it's not true" on the FB posts of everyone in my network circulating this news story every day....it still has legs. Maybe the next thing we see is new cocktail at the Abbey called "The Fake Victim", made from crocodile tears, bull poop, and half-truths - you can order one this weekend for $29, or $49 with an extra shot of publicity hound juice.

wwongo

There is a possibility of something between intentional discrimination and total fabrication. The truth is usually in the middle. Since everyone else is speculating, My guess is that there was some other reason why Mr. Cooley’s partner was asked to give up his seat but that the flight attendant or gate agent did use the phrase “so a couple can sit together” I’ve flown Alaska long enough to know that flight attendants and gate agents often give bogus reasons for things to passengers and this time it got the company in trouble. I see some parallels to Alaska’s last public relations issue when Mark Zuckerberg’s sister posted about flight attendants asking her to move to coach when a male Alaska frequent flyer, who was a known problem, was making inappropriate sexual comments. The seat issue is not nearly as serious as condoning sexual harassment of passengers but both are examples of flight attendants at Alaska interacting with passengers in a way that worked 20 years ago but will cost the company in the future.

Crzn33k

Thanks

SpicyMorale

My flights this year have had duplicate seats, airports including ANC, BRW, SEA, SAN. Almost every single flight.

UAPremierExec

Except pax probably didn't throw a hissy fit when moved to the exit row and eventually thrown off the plane.

PV_Premier

mayhaps not, but it's another example of bad IT that results in completely avoidable situations like this...

ou81two

I'm not sure what's more stupid here. That a bar owner would call himself a CEO or someone pretending to a be a CEO booked a flight in coach. I guess I'm sitting next to Santa Claus or the richest guy in the world the next time I'm not up front.

NoLaGent

HA! Excellent points, but we are talking LA after all. To be fair, he's expanded the Abbey 5x over the years (it's over 16,000 square feet now) and did open the Chapel (around 6,000 SF, I think) next door a couple of years ago, and does have multiple real estate ventures around LA that are part of his holdings, so I don't think calling himself a CEO of a company that employs a ton of people is that far fetched. It's also a full service restaurant in addition to a bar, not that it really matters. I'd be much more curious to find out what the customer service gesture settlement was for him and his partner, but that has an NDA attached to it, I'm sure.

I'd love to sit next to Santa Claus too, but I think he flies private.

dinanm3atl

This is a thing now!

I am self employed. I have many friends that are also self employed. Either a sole proprietor setup or an LLC. They are the ONLY employee of their company/venture. In their email signatures they are the "CEO" of said company. I guess this is some kind of 'tagline' to show some kind of success?

UAPremierExec

I have 3 employees and I still find it hard to say i'm "CEO" of an aviation technology company.... plus, it makes us sound expensive like some of those "other" firms who charge folks like Alaska $25,000 a month per consultant, and we actually *do* work.