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When is it okay for an airline to release your seat?

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Oct 19, 2009, 11:25 PM

Gromit801

Join Date: Aug 2007

Posts: 745

You better care about what the food vendors say, because they will take it to airport management, who in turn will take it to the various Airline Station managers, telling them that they will not discriminate, nor endorse any one airport vendor over another.

Or have you never heard of things like EEO and Minority business laws? A lot of food vendor shops I've seen are staffed by minorities or owned by such. For any airline to say their vouchers can only be used at ABC burgers (because they happen to be the closest), and not DEF Taqueria will create seven different kind of legal hell for an airline.

Last edited by Gromit801; Oct 19, 2009 at 11:28 PM.

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