Bumping airline common passengers so big shots can fly.

[Dugout DickStone]

I would love a picture of the Iowa jumbo rabbit buying group

[Emo EMAW]

I'm on a Southwest flight at Americas best airport and they have 140 on board but manifest only shows 139 so they are going up the aisles checking all ID's.

[mocat]

would be so much easier with assigned seats

[Emo EMAW]

What do you know, not sure  who's fault (I guess by default the airlines fault), they admitted a child incorrectly (lap vs ticketed). 

[Emo EMAW]

They ought to just ban lap children. 

[Gooch]

They ought to just ban lap children. 

This

[mocat]

banning lap children would disproportionately affect children of lap band patients

[Dugout DickStone]

They ought to just ban lap children. 

This

yes

[renocat]

I see a kid beating coming

[steve dave]

GTFOOMF with your 350 lb allowance for bags and being pissed that united won't do your lazy ass job for you. If I was United I'd load his 400 lbs of crap up for him and then release the bomb doors at 35k feet raining it down on flyover country. If I was United I wouldn't give any extra allowance to military to begin with.

United gives 3 checked bags to international three cabin first class passengers, they give 5 free checked bags to soldiers

United gives 50 pounds per bag as an allowance to economy passengers, premium cabin passengers, elites, and soldiers are allowed to check 70 pounds per bag without an overweight fee

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2017/05/17/national-guard-soldier-claims-united-airlines-charged-200-for-overweight-bag.html

[renocat]

Apparently United agent hates killerjoes.  Must have been an Obama disciple or muslim.  Soldiers should be given leeway.  The agent sbould have to kiss his butt.  SteveDave do airliners have bomb doors?  I hope I never get bonked by falling debris.  This videoing of jetflying beeves has to quit.. Last week a family got kicked off the plane for trying to store a bcake in the overhead bin.  They were trying to put in the bin container for safety gear.  Attendant made them put it under the seat, when he turned his back they put the cake overhead.  Peeesed off him big time and family cussed him too.  They tried to make a big deal of this.  I guess the cake might have been heavy also.

[steve dave]

Yeah, I'd throw that family the eff off the plane as well.

[Dugout DickStone]

Yeah, I'd throw that family the eff off the plane as well.

Yeah, rules don't apply to us.  Wait, they do

[steve dave]

local downgrade doesn't feel rules apply to him, gets his dumbass kicked off flight. better alert the media!

[Brock Landers]

A birthday cake is a pretty stupid item to travel with.  The chances of the cake getting smashed somewhere along the way are pretty high.

[mocat]

A birthday cake is a pretty stupid item to travel with.  The chances of the cake getting smashed somewhere along the way are pretty high.

yeah, wtf is that about. like you can't get a cake wherever you're going?

[star seed 7]

Check your privilege mocat

[Mrs. Gooch]

I am planning a trip on United with a friend. She said, "Good thing {her husband} isn't going with us." He is an Asian male doctor.

[Dugout DickStone]

I am planning a trip on United with a friend. She said, "Good thing {her husband} isn't going with us." He is an Asian male doctor.

she sounds like a loser.  don't go

[BrokenSky1113]

They paid for the god damn seat, the baby is allowed on the flight without paying for a ticket.  They're just putting their gd baby in the seat that is open, it would be no different then if you randomly had a seat open next to you and your friend who was also on the flight with a ticket moved up and sat next to you.  You guys are dumbasses.

Well the difference is that if there was an empty seat then the passenger they were trying to accommodate would be assigned that seat and it would no longer be an empty seat. It's more like what sys was saying about if you paid for an extra seat for elbow room.

They shouldn't be trying to accommodate a passenger in a seat that was already paid for by someone else (I'm well aware that they are allowed to but idgaf bc that is stupid)

you realize that you are advocating for an airline to not be able to resell the seat of a passenger who no shows a sold out flight, right?

I'm ok with a regulation that forces a company to only sell a product one time.
It is not outrageous to suggest that airlines find a business model that allows them to make a profit without relying on screwing consumers.
Honestly, what kind of business claims that it can only make money by selling more than they can accommodate? The only reason we accept it is because they have been doing it for so long and it is protected by the government.

[puniraptor]

The real only reason we accept it is that it results in lower fares for everyone.

[steve dave]

Yeah, people act like air travel is some service they deserve on their own terms. I'm very free market capitalist when it comes to air travel.

[IPA4Me]

Late arrival on connecting flight. Had to check my bag rather than use the overhead storage.

Is this grounds to rage?

[michigancat]

Late arrival on connecting flight. Had to check my bag rather than use the overhead storage.

Is this grounds to rage?

lol no. Be thankful you made the flight.

[michigancat]

Also be thankful that your second plane even took roller boards. I almost always put everything in a backpack because of the tiny overhead bins on the planes I take to tiny towns.