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Bad experience with Allegiant Airlines

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Aug 27, 2009, 1:03 AM

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Originally Posted by bah humbug

In that case, I really don't see why the OP was upset because the agent sent them to the line and the other agent sent their passenger to the elevator. Maybe that passenger was an Elite passenger. The OP doesn't know. Just a classic case of eavesdropping. Not knowing the whole story, but getting upset over it.

Allegiant doesn't even have a frequent flier program so they don't have elite passengers. The passengers who were directed to the elevator either had a legitimate disability (traveling with children is not, in itself, a disability) or were from an adjacent counter of another airline and they did have elite status.

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