Non-refundable tix and Jury Duty...
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Non-refundable tix and Jury Duty...
Inspired by a current OMNI thread, I was curious if anybody here on FT has experience getting an airline to wave change / cancellation fees due to being selected for Jury Duty. IMHO, it seems like the ethical thing for airlines to do would be to waive the fees since the pax has a civic duty to appear when summoned for jury duty. What do you think? Any experiences with this situation? good or bad?
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Inspired by a current OMNI thread, I was curious if anybody here on FT has experience getting an airline to wave change / cancellation fees due to being selected for Jury Duty. IMHO, it seems like the ethical thing for airlines to do would be to waive the fees since the pax has a civic duty to appear when summoned for jury duty. What do you think? Any experiences with this situation? good or bad?
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I got a jury summons a couple years ago and I already had a trip booked that week. I called immediately and got jury duty delayed, then I moved out of that state.
You should be entitled to 1 delay. Have you used your delay?
You should be entitled to 1 delay. Have you used your delay?
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Here in Dallas (and I'd guess it might be state-wide), having purchased tickets for leisure travel is sufficient reason to be granted a jury duty postponement. Interestingly, they say that business travel is not a valid excuse, although if you show them a ticket receipt, I don't see how they could tell the difference.
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Here you can have I believe two delays, having prepaid transportation counts for it, just let them know. The ticket has to be dated before the summons for serving so you can't rush out and buy tickets once you get it I don't know the policy of the airlines, I would assume each one is different, but I wouldn't expect any of the majors to do much about it for you.
It's not the airlines responsibility to cover you, no matter what the duty was, you took that risk buying a non refundable ticket and not getting insurance for it.
It's not the airlines responsibility to cover you, no matter what the duty was, you took that risk buying a non refundable ticket and not getting insurance for it.
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Here in Dallas (and I'd guess it might be state-wide), having purchased tickets for leisure travel is sufficient reason to be granted a jury duty postponement. Interestingly, they say that business travel is not a valid excuse, although if you show them a ticket receipt, I don't see how they could tell the difference.
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I always show up unless I will actually be out of down the days of required service - because my experience is sometimes I just show up for the two days and never get selected for a jury and that fulfills my duty for the next 2 years. The one time I was selected for voir dire and was initially chosen I spoke with both attorneys and informed them I had a non refundable ticket to travel before the estimated finish of the case and they excused me - I think neither was happy about the prospect of having a disgruntled juror on the panel.
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Here in Dallas (and I'd guess it might be state-wide), having purchased tickets for leisure travel is sufficient reason to be granted a jury duty postponement. Interestingly, they say that business travel is not a valid excuse, although if you show them a ticket receipt, I don't see how they could tell the difference.
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The airline does not refund nonrefundable tickets without all sorts of fees. Hmm, probably why they're called nonrefundable. Also, you probably have hotel rooms, tours, all kinds of other things pre-paid that also cost money. Instead, I was asked to send a copy of the tickets/receipt to the judge, and he excused me from jury duty. You do not have a "civic duty" if it will cause you financial hardship. I was a little worried because the first time they called me, I was in Africa and had no way of knowing about it until too late. But fortunately they understood all that. (Louisiana) I guess that's the chance they take when they mail summons to an address, instead of actually serving it to an actual person.
Inspired by a current OMNI thread, I was curious if anybody here on FT has experience getting an airline to wave change / cancellation fees due to being selected for Jury Duty. IMHO, it seems like the ethical thing for airlines to do would be to waive the fees since the pax has a civic duty to appear when summoned for jury duty. What do you think? Any experiences with this situation? good or bad?
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Here in Dallas (and I'd guess it might be state-wide), having purchased tickets for leisure travel is sufficient reason to be granted a jury duty postponement. Interestingly, they say that business travel is not a valid excuse, although if you show them a ticket receipt, I don't see how they could tell the difference.
I didn't have to do anything. I just said I wanted it to be postponed in NY and that was all they needed. NY doesn't do any automatic exemptions for professions like doctors which I thought was odd. One can't just claim to be a physician without some type of license to back the claim.
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