{"id":520,"date":"2004-09-07T02:08:07","date_gmt":"2004-09-07T02:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:46","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:46","slug":"bad_airline_story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Bad Airline Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. I&#8217;m not a frequent Delta flyer, but if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bentoncourier.com\/articles\/2004\/09\/03\/opinions\/75koped.txt\" target=\"browser\">this story<\/a> pans out I&#8217;ll be an even less frequent one. Apparently a Delta affiliate wouldn&#8217;t allow other passengers to give up their seats for a soldier on leave. (hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donaldsensing.com\/2004\/09\/why-i-will-never-fly-delta-airlines.html\" target=\"browser\">Rev. Sensing<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/marinecorpsmoms.com\/archives\/000302.html\" target=\"browser\">Marine Corps. Moms<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve fired off the following note to Chataqua Airlines, at their marketing@rjet.com address, and I&#8217;ll report back on what I hear. You may want to send them a note as well&#8230;be civil; as I note, we don&#8217;t have all the facts yet.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Please forward this note to Bryan Bedford, your CEO.<\/p>\n<p>According to the account in the Benton Courier of September 3rd, your staff refused passage on Delta flight 6281 to a Benton soldier coming home on leave from Iraq, and further refused to allow other paying passengers who offered to allow her to exchange their seats to allow her to travel home.<\/p>\n<p>I sincerely hope that this isn&#8217;t true. I&#8217;m hard-pressed to imagine that an airline that uses this as it&#8217;s mission statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>OUR VISION: We believe that every employee, regardless of personal beliefs or world-view, has been created in the image and likeness of God. We seek to become stronger from our diversity. We seek personal respect and fulfillment from our work. Most of all, we seek to recognize the dignity and potential of each member of our Republic Airways Holdings Family.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>would act so inhumanely.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll await your reply.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. I&#8217;m not a frequent Delta flyer, but if this story pans out I&#8217;ll be an even less frequent one. Apparently a Delta affiliate wouldn&#8217;t allow other passengers to give up their seats for a soldier on leave. (hat tip to Rev. Sensing and the Marine Corps. Moms) I&#8217;ve fired off the following note to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}