I got the shaft!!!
Oct 13, 2000 | 10:53 am
#16
Join Date: Apr 1999
Posts: 3,709
To follow-up on what dranz said...
Courtesy goes a LONG way, especially in a "crisis". On an AA flight, I was going to miss my connection and the next flight was full.
The folks who were ranting and raving ended up stuck in coach on another airline. I ended up in FC on the second connection that was supposedly full. And this was without Elite status.
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"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own."
Courtesy goes a LONG way, especially in a "crisis". On an AA flight, I was going to miss my connection and the next flight was full.
The folks who were ranting and raving ended up stuck in coach on another airline. I ended up in FC on the second connection that was supposedly full. And this was without Elite status.
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"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own."
Oct 13, 2000 | 1:06 pm
#17
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Portland, Oregon; seat 3A
Programs: UA 1K 2021-22-23-24;Formerly a longtime UA Premier Exec; NW silver (legacy), Alaska Gold (way back)
Posts: 2,318
Exactly so. When a recent UA flight was cancelled, which was supposed to carry two of my employers and me in coach, I was extremely nice to a Red Carpet Club agent, and ended up (for a small charge) with three tickets in First Class on a Delta nonstop to the same destination.
I have never before bought a Delta ticket in a United Red Carpet Club, let alone three at once. Right after I got my three tickets, a horde of passengers from the cancelled flight descended on the agent, looking for help. My employers and I had another drink
and watched the carnage 
before we left for our DL seats.
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"If you want to win the game, write the rules."
I have never before bought a Delta ticket in a United Red Carpet Club, let alone three at once. Right after I got my three tickets, a horde of passengers from the cancelled flight descended on the agent, looking for help. My employers and I had another drink
and watched the carnage before we left for our DL seats.------------------
"If you want to win the game, write the rules."