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Nightmare On Iberia Airlines: Kids Forced Off Plane In Spain
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The Kids In Spain Are Left Off The Plane: A Nightmare With Iberia Airlines
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Author Topic: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?  (Read 86404 times)

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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #20 on: August 25, 2017, 12:10:37 PM »
Meh, 90% of FTers always defend the airline and harass the OP.
Yeh exactly why I hate FT. They seem to think it's shticky to bash a op like this and defend the airlines. To the contrary you will always find some nice members as well who will defend the op.
You can say what you think when you think what you say.

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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #21 on: August 25, 2017, 12:10:59 PM »
First is first someone open a thread on FlyerTalk
Link?
You can say what you think when you think what you say.

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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #22 on: August 25, 2017, 12:15:15 PM »

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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #23 on: August 25, 2017, 12:17:06 PM »
OP is still at 1 post count...
Probably has something to do with location and time.
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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #24 on: August 25, 2017, 12:19:36 PM »
Probably has something to do with location and time.

I guess he's gonna need some popcorn by time Shabbos is over by him

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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #25 on: August 25, 2017, 12:26:23 PM »
I guess he's gonna need some popcorn by time Shabbos is over by him

Though screen name reads very much like this;)
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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #26 on: August 25, 2017, 12:30:08 PM »
Though screen name reads very much like this;)
I think you really meant this

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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #27 on: August 25, 2017, 12:31:48 PM »
Rereading OP, I highly doubt they were singled out due to age. Though it is likely that they were singled out due to the fact that they were a party of 3 - much easier to deal with one party of 3 if they needed to bump 3 passengers, than to deal with 3 parties of 1, or even a party of 2 and another single passenger. Oldest of the 3 being 17, might not have been so obvious to be a minor, so error might have not been caught due to appearance. Doesn't excuse the airline, but could be a bit of an explanation.
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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #28 on: August 25, 2017, 12:33:16 PM »
I think you really meant this
No I didn't. Are you related to בלעם? He claimed to know what other think.  ;)
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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #29 on: August 26, 2017, 03:26:47 PM »
That is an excellent point.  When we asked them this was the excuse that they gave us.

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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #30 on: August 26, 2017, 03:37:38 PM »
Thank you all for your informative feedback.  I will follow up and try to get this story out and see what Dan has to say.  At the time when they told me about compensation, I told them I don't care about the money I just want my children to arrive safely on this flight.  From that point on, they refused to speak with me,  I felt helpless.

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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #31 on: August 26, 2017, 09:39:47 PM »
When did they check in for the MAD-TLV flight? Not in NY?
If the 17 YO was old enough that the 11 didn't need to fly as an AU, then as far as the airline is concerned, they just bumped a family of 3 with an adult and 2 children although I would expect some common sense to be involved here as well, not just company policy.

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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #32 on: August 26, 2017, 11:02:56 PM »
That is an excellent point.  When we asked them this was the excuse that they gave us.
When you asked what? You asked how they could claim that you checked in last if you checked in still in jfk?
You can say what you think when you think what you say.

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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #33 on: August 27, 2017, 11:57:40 AM »
When did they check in for the MAD-TLV flight? Not in NY?
If the 17 YO was old enough that the 11 didn't need to fly as an AU, then as far as the airline is concerned, they just bumped a family of 3 with an adult and 2 children although I would expect some common sense to be involved here as well, not just company policy.


They flew from Miami to Madrid, not NY.  I would have expected them to have gotten boarding passes in Miami for their connecting flight from MAD to TLV, but they didn't.  Isn't it normal to get a boarding pass to their connecting flight?  That is why I am suspicious that the Iberia rep knew they overbooked and my children seemed like an easy target to bump off the plane. 

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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #34 on: August 27, 2017, 12:02:44 PM »
They flew from Miami to Madrid, not NY.  I would have expected them to have gotten boarding passes in Miami for their connecting flight from MAD to TLV, but they didn't.  Isn't it normal to get a boarding pass to their connecting flight?  That is why I am suspicious that the Iberia rep knew they overbooked and my children seemed like an easy target to bump off the plane.
Was it on one ticket?

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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #35 on: August 27, 2017, 12:04:26 PM »
They flew from Miami to Madrid, not NY.  I would have expected them to have gotten boarding passes in Miami for their connecting flight from MAD to TLV, but they didn't.  Isn't it normal to get a boarding pass to their connecting flight?  That is why I am suspicious that the Iberia rep knew they overbooked and my children seemed like an easy target to bump off the plane.
When we asked why my children who were minors were being bumped they responded that it is because they were one of the last to check in.  You would think that they should have checked them in for this connecting flight when they got their boarding passes  for the Miami to Madrid flight (12 hours earlier than the Madrid to Tel Aviv flight).

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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #36 on: August 27, 2017, 12:08:59 PM »
When we asked why my children who were minors were being bumped they responded that it is because they were one of the last to check in.  You would think that they should have checked them in for this connecting flight when they got their boarding passes  for the Miami to Madrid flight (12 hours earlier than the Madrid to Tel Aviv flight).
Was their luggage checked all the way through from MIA to TLV? Was their flight from MIA on an Iberia ticket and Iberia aircraft?
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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #37 on: August 27, 2017, 12:12:52 PM »
Sure.

Here is a picture of my two youngest 11 and 15 finally sleeping in the hotel during the 12 hour layover in Madrid, while my oldest couldn't sleep a wink knowing she was responsible for her younger siblings. 

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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #38 on: August 27, 2017, 12:15:53 PM »
Was their luggage checked all the way through from MIA to TLV? Was their flight from MIA on an Iberia ticket and Iberia aircraft?
Their luggage was not checked all the way through.  Their flight was a joint flight with American Airlines

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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #39 on: August 27, 2017, 12:17:09 PM »
Their luggage was not checked all the way through.  Their flight was a joint flight with American Airlines
Was it one ticket or two? Was it an AA ticket or an IB ticket? Was MIA-MAD on an AA aircraft or on an IB aircraft?
I've been waiting over 5 years with bated breath for someone to say that!
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