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Customer Service cancer is not a good enough reason for AA

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Jun 7, 2009, 10:19 PM

mikeynla

Join Date: Jun 2009

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To whom I address my "first post" is of no issue. To attack an airline for something like this is ludicrous, and that's why I chose to post.

Point taken about posting "rights," I did not choose my words correctly. But I stand by my point.

This may be my first post on this site, as I just discovered it. But I frequent other travel sites, and run across complaints of this sort all the time. The OP specifically states "do not patronize American Airlines." As I stated in my reply, the cancer issue is truly heart-wrenching. I was simply stating my point that American has really done nothing wrong.

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