Have you sued AA lately?
May 16, 2009, 7:42 am
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Have you sued AA lately?
I am curious to see if anybody on here has taken AA to court and if, regardless of the outcome of that particular issue, there have been any repercussions or unintended consequences, like frozen AA accounts, refusal to sell tickets, 'put on the black list', etc.
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May 16, 2009, 7:56 am
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I am curious to see if anybody on here has taken AA to court and if, regardless of the outcome of that particular issue, there have been any repercussions or unintended consequences, like frozen AA accounts, refusal to sell tickets, 'put on the black list', etc.
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Do tell us how this works out for ya...
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May 16, 2009, 8:11 am
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I am curious to see if anybody on here has taken AA to court and if, regardless of the outcome of that particular issue, there have been any repercussions or unintended consequences, like frozen AA accounts, refusal to sell tickets, 'put on the black list', etc.
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Other airlines take a more formal approach to blacklists. At American Airlines, 138 passengers are now banned for offenses that range from striking a crew member to endangering the operation of a flight.
”A passenger’s behavior has to rise to an egregious level in order to get them on the list,” a spokesman, Tim Wagner, said. ”For example, if you have to be restrained or handcuffed, you would make the list.”
”A passenger’s behavior has to rise to an egregious level in order to get them on the list,” a spokesman, Tim Wagner, said. ”For example, if you have to be restrained or handcuffed, you would make the list.”
May 16, 2009, 8:14 am
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May 16, 2009, 8:20 am
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May 16, 2009, 8:54 am
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I am curious to see if anybody on here has taken AA to court and if, regardless of the outcome of that particular issue, there have been any repercussions or unintended consequences, like frozen AA accounts, refusal to sell tickets, 'put on the black list', etc.
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Seriously, it's not about that right?
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May 16, 2009, 9:33 am
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May 16, 2009, 10:59 am
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I got mad at them and considered it for awhile when they refused to refund because of jury duty. lol but I got over it by just telling myself that I'll pay off the credit card at a later date
May 16, 2009, 12:22 pm
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I'm not sure I follow you - did you have an expectation that you could get a non-refundable ticket refunded because of jury duty? I've never seen that listed as one of the exceptions to the "no refund" rule, so I'm not sure where you'd get the impression that it was.
May 16, 2009, 12:25 pm
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I haven't sued AA, but my husband has defended them in several cases. The most infamous was a case where a guy (lawyer) bought a vacation package to Cancun. While he was in Cancun, a hurricane hit. He sued AA for the hurricane interrupting his vacation. The district court told him it was crazy and threw it out. He appealed to the state supreme court. The written opinion given by the supreme court of Oklahoma was hilarious. They basically stated that AA could not be counted on to control the weather, etc and it was a waste of the court's time. They made him pay all court costs, including my husband's bill.
May 16, 2009, 1:07 pm
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I understand where you are coming from (rules are rules), but I can also understand demkr's expectations. I would have expected it. Ive never looked for it in the refund rules, but I am kind of surprised to hear they won't. AA was in line for the government handouts when they needed it. Wouldn't hurt them to relax the rules so someone can perform their civic duty for the government without being penalized.
May 16, 2009, 1:45 pm
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I haven't sued AA, but my husband has defended them in several cases. The most infamous was a case where a guy (lawyer) bought a vacation package to Cancun. While he was in Cancun, a hurricane hit. He sued AA for the hurricane interrupting his vacation. The district court told him it was crazy and threw it out. He appealed to the state supreme court. The written opinion given by the supreme court of Oklahoma was hilarious. They basically stated that AA could not be counted on to control the weather, etc and it was a waste of the court's time. They made him pay all court costs, including my husband's bill.
May 16, 2009, 2:39 pm
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Besides, a few times when I've been called for jury duty and had non-refundable travel booked, I was excused from jury duty and made the trip. It's usually discretionary with the judge, but that's been my experience.
And back to the OP's question, no, I haven't sued AA lately, nor have I had any reason to.
May 16, 2009, 3:01 pm
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Don't think you'll find it there.
I'm really not following how you can make that connection.
Besides, a few times when I've been called for jury duty and had non-refundable travel booked, I was excused from jury duty and made the trip. It's usually discretionary with the judge, but that's been my experience.
And back to the OP's question, no, I haven't sued AA lately, nor have I had any reason to.
I'm really not following how you can make that connection.
Besides, a few times when I've been called for jury duty and had non-refundable travel booked, I was excused from jury duty and made the trip. It's usually discretionary with the judge, but that's been my experience.
And back to the OP's question, no, I haven't sued AA lately, nor have I had any reason to.
May 16, 2009, 3:42 pm
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Was in line, never took it except for the compensation for the national airspace being shut down for 3 days. Also only AA never hid behind bankruptcy.