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Originally Posted by PHXFlyer
He has a ticket. The original one he was supposed to travel on. He also has a reservation on the flights they promised him. I'm sure they will honor that reservation as long as he pays the change fee. As was pointed out before he had the choice to travel on that original ticket without his girlfriend who didn't have the proper visa to transit the US. He chose not to fly without her. That's a voluntary change.
To expect that he'd be accommodated on a flight from EZE to the UK regardless of the cabin class is ridiculous. As one who has shelled out good money to travel in international business/first class I can tell you if I knew that any airline had put a slag paying a cheap economy fare in a premium cabin for such nonsense I'd raise bloody hell. He paid for an economy ticket and should expect nothing more. Sorry but you don't get to dine on caviar and champagne when you've paid a cheap fare. And the change fee is completely justified given the circumstances.
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First things first, you say that I had the choice to travel on the original flight. Correct. But given the situation, what type of heartless selfish sick person would have actually gone ahead and jumped on the plane leaving his girlfriend, deeply upset and broken-hearted, behind at the airport? With some of the comments on this site I can definitely think of one or two heartless candidates. Yes I had the choice, but thankfully I didn't choose to fly, thus enabling me to be able to take care of my girlfriend. It is what normal people call compassion. Try looking it up in the dictionary for a definition as you clearly have no idea what it means. However, you are not alone as Delta evidently find it impossible to show any compassion either.
Now you go onto say that to expect to be accomodated on the flight regardless of class is ridiculous and that the change fee is totally justified given the circumstances. As ever PHX you choose to miss out the main points of my story just to put your own little digs in. We all know which side you are on but the way you continually choose to twist the knife at every corner is just spiteful mate! You remind me of a young schoolboy whose own life is so unhappy that he needs to make other people's lives unhappy just to make his sad and twisted life a little better. Anyway back to the quote, perhaps it would be ridiculous to expect to be accomodated on a flight regardless of class, if it had not been for the fact that the manager told me this. These are his words not mine! He realised the terrible situation Delta had put us in, and saw fit to offer his help and if necessary upgrading us if it meant we could get home in time. So ridiculous? I don't think so as he agreed to it!
And you also say that the change fee is totally justified as well. Again and as always you are missing the point. You are either missing the point on purpose just to show the airlines how much you love them, or maybe it is because you are too thick to take in all the information that I write. I'm not sure which and to be fair I don't really care. So anyway, change fee totally justified? Let's just think about this shall we, manager gives his word that we would not face any fees for changing our tickets....and when I go to change my ticket I am told that I will have to pay a change fee of 100 pounds. So you are saying that it is totally justified that I have to pay this change fee of 100 quid after the manager tells me that I won't have to pay it? Again please read this again if you don't understand it the first time. Maybe you will need to read it several times before it sinks in. To me it is basic stuff, the manager told me that I wouldn't have to pay a change fee, and now they are telling me that I will have to pay a change fee. Are you trying to say that to go back on a promise where the manager gave me his word and shuck my hand is totally justified?
Right now then let's get down to it, "
As one who has shelled out good money to travel in international business/first class I can tell you if I knew that any airline had put a slag paying a cheap economy fare in a premium cabin for such nonsense I'd raise bloody hell." What an absolutely despicable snobbish upper-class idiotic thing to say. However, it helps me to picture the type of person you are. I thoroughly despise the likes of you. To know that you would kick up a fuss if you knew that a member of the working class was situated anywhere near your caviar and champers chums, makes my skin crawl. What difference would it make to you if some "slag" had been accomodated in first class to help a manager keep an earlier promise. The slag isn't going to stop you from eating your prawn and cucumber sarnies with the crust cut is he? And what exactly does this slag reference actually mean? One online dictionary says:
coal waste: the mixture of coal dust and mineral waste produced after coal has been mined
I remember when I was young I lived a few miles from a slag heap , which was a huge dump of mining waste that looked like a massive black hill. This is in Newcastle which in the past was a big coalmining area. However, it was terribly working class where the people worked awfully long hours earning very little money - horrible people eh PHX? What a bunch of slags. So I'm not sure what you are getting at with this slag remark but the common meaning for a slag over here in Britain is for someone who sleeps around and isn't too choosy who she will part her legs for.
I'm not sure what you are trying to get at calling me a slag, but whatever it is I feel very angry and offended by it.