xolinlevh

My thought was more that posting a picture of a specific person in this sorta 'attack' of her for getting the seat may violate some Twitter T&Cs

DeweyCheathem

Why "WOW!!!"? I'd surmise that a majority of people who have any familiarity with Coulter feel that way about her.

DavidDTW

Detroit isn't near a coastline??? Ok, we call it shoreline around here. And the same could be said for SLC....

TheMadBrewer

She has the same right the rest of us has to be upset about a seat change.

But publishing a picture of the person who ended up in the seat (and I understand she did another of flight crew) is beyond bad form. And given her language in the past could be taken as a threat.

MSPeconomist

Assuming that ATL = Atlantic and not Atlanta airport (which AFAIK doesn't have a coastline, but perhaps there's a little pond there?), this can't possibly be true.

This can't be true either. Most of DL's hubs aren't within 50 miles of a (real) coastline. Now if you were to generalize the concept of coast line to include not only the Great Lakes, but also the Mississippi River and the Great Salt Lake, you might be moving closer, but ATL would still be a problem. OTOH doesn't some minor river flow through downtown Atlanta, near the Coke museum?

Exactly.

Isn't 42 the answer to everything?

She might be too cheap to pay for the bodyguard to have a FC ticket. There could also be some fundraisers were the rules preclude FC travel.

It's easy to imagine (some, certainly not all) charities that would balk at paying for FC tickets.

I can hate what someone says but defend to the death their right to say it or in this case, fly in the seat that they purchased.

BTW, the rant and twitting happened after the seat was taken, so this cannot be used to excuse DL's action in taking the seat.

Doesn't DL have rules that you're not supposed to take pictures of individual passengers or crew on board without their explicit permission?

It's poor form but I was trying to think of an innocuous reason that the passenger would be harmed by the photo: guy flying to have an affair and lying to wife that he was going elsewhere on a business trip, someone flying to a sporting event after telling boss he/she was sick,.....In all of my examples, the passenger is at least arguably doing something wrong and doesn't want to be caught, but your surprise example indeed seems to be an innocent party.

I hope DL isn't giving C+ and FC seats for free to random people just because they are oversized. That's what paid extra seats are for.

Spanish

I with you on this one. She's pretty famous, and must make enough for a few extra money $ on the flight.

jdrtravel

You don't build wealth by giving money to Delta.

Spanish

No, you build it by increasing income. You not going to be a million - air by saving a few bucks here and there by cutting corners with a 5 digit income.

To save real money, you need to make real money first...

Miesque

Believe it or not, there are actually people with $50 Million, $100 Million and much more who fly Coach so this whole notion about being able to afford it is a silly conversation and off point.

Ber2dca

While I in theory agree, I have seen pictures of people with faces clearly visible all the time on FT even in threads where 'bad behavior' was talked about. I always wondered about the ethics of that, but it didn't seem to offend anyone else then.

I think in this day and age, where people post *so* many videos on Youtube, blogs etc. of just about anything noteworthy, people's faces are plastered all over the internet. If it wasn't Ann Coulter, I don't think much would be made of it by people in this thread.

Doc Savage

Ah, the sweet sensation of schadenfreude.

GatorBlues

Atlanta's how to save money pseudo-celebrity, Clark Howard, disagrees according to this quote from his website:

That’s the hardest part. Most people don’t start thinking about saving until their 40th birthday. But if you start early, it makes a big, big difference down the road. Sean Williams from Fool.com did a analysis in 2016 on how much one needs to save annually to be a (tax-deferred) millionaire by age of 65. His calculations assumed a moderate 7% growth rate, starting with NO money down.

Age 20: $3,500 annually

rufflesinc

A million bucks in retirement savings , that will replace your earnings, at age 65 when you retire, is not the same as a million bucks at age 40 or however old Coulter is

lamphs

I was a bit bored this afternoon - too hot/humid out - and by chance came across this thread.

If this happened to anyone else, especially if someone asked for advice in the 'seat change' situation, a valid advice would be 'take to Twitter'. But not for Anne Coulter because folks don't like her (neither do I particularly).

She has the right, like any of us, to the seat we paid for. I could also fly in domestic F, if I wanted to shell out those $, but I choose not to because I tend to be frugal.

It is too bad that folks so often have to apply politics to these threads when they do not like an individual. This thread should be about 'here is the seemingly legitimate problem, and let's hear from others about their similar experiences including resolutions'.

jdrtravel

This has nothing to do with politics, or at least not real politics. People don't like her because she is a bully and deeply offensive. They don't dislike her because she supports lower taxes or an isolationist immigration policy.

I'm very liberal and one of my very best friends is very conservative. We get a long just fine.

For much of the public she has lost her right to be offended because she is such an reckless iconoclast, and seemingly never in a productive and caring way, and again, not at all because of her "political" perspective. It's about how she treats other people.