Delta terminated four Korean-speaking Agents for offering unauthorized upgrades
Jul 20, 2018, 3:37 pm
#31
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Jul 20, 2018, 4:03 pm
#33
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I work professionally with a rediculously large Korean manufacturing conglomerate... I have years of experience with the Korean “style” of business..I’ll bet my 401k that Operational Upgrades were being improperly applied in a method that became so entrenched that other Korean speaking staff were sucked in. It wouldn’t surprise me if it is connected through abusing the KE partnership...
In theory Operational Upgrades take into account medallion status of the particular carrier’s passenger. On KE metal I have no effective status beyond Skyteam Elite+, and vice versa...codesharing creates lots of room for Shena...
Alternatively I have also seen manual seat assignments written in pen on boarding passes to D1 both on normal and non rev boarding passes...in one case the gate agent came on board with the passenger and manually wrote on the manifest given to the purser...I was mildly interested but since I was in a nice seat I didn’t care enough to ask but did ask a friend to pull up the flight manifest later, it showed the seat empty...
i fly out of a large southern city known for its Coca Cola!
In theory Operational Upgrades take into account medallion status of the particular carrier’s passenger. On KE metal I have no effective status beyond Skyteam Elite+, and vice versa...codesharing creates lots of room for Shena...
Alternatively I have also seen manual seat assignments written in pen on boarding passes to D1 both on normal and non rev boarding passes...in one case the gate agent came on board with the passenger and manually wrote on the manifest given to the purser...I was mildly interested but since I was in a nice seat I didn’t care enough to ask but did ask a friend to pull up the flight manifest later, it showed the seat empty...
i fly out of a large southern city known for its Coca Cola!
I wish I lived there so I didn't have to transfer...EVER. LOL.
Jul 20, 2018, 4:48 pm
#34
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Jul 20, 2018, 8:46 pm
#35
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To be fair, Hartfield Jackson isn’t Atlanta, and so I’ve heard Atlanta has many attractions and even world class adult entertainment....I wouldn’t know as I’m still getting used to this “sweet tea” and that’s enough excitement for me....