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Thanks for the advise Mars! I have already tried to ask the embassy to bring forward my girlfriend's visa interview date but they, like Delta did not want to help and said that they couldn't (or wouldn't) help. Also, as far as getting in touch with the media, I've just sent an email off to all the UK newspapers. Next I'm going to hunt out all US newspapers addresses and Argie ones too. Hopefully there is someone who wants to bring down these lying scumbags a peg or two!
My girlfriend's mother told me a story before about the brother of a friend of hers from Argentina who was supposed to be going to Ireland. However, when he arrived at the US he was detained for 2 days for flying into the country without the relevant transit visa. Eventually he was allowed to fly home to Argentina when a translator was found and he was fully interviewed nazi style. He was asked why he was travelling and who was he going to see and if he could prove if he had any money. The poor soul has never had the courage to leave his country since. Thanks US Customs!
I hate to think about my girlfriend if she had actually been allowed to fly and then held in the US like a terrorist before finally being shipped back home whilst I had to continue to Manchester and then Newcastle where I'm from. This type of thing obviously happens all the time, as normal people who have never travelled in their life just don't know info like; it is necessary to have a transit visa to transit in the US. However, his case is a bit different to ours as my girlfriend proactively asked Delta what she needed to travel and they told her lies. This is the problem. But we'll see what the press and the American aviation regulators make of it all now.

Thanks Butch I'll heed the warning! Nothing about Delta would surprise me now. I'll be careful with them.