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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 86419 times)

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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #460 on: September 06, 2017, 04:40:28 PM »
Um, no.
There is more than one Gary in the world.
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(If it was Gary from VFTW, he would've linked his website, btw.)
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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #461 on: September 06, 2017, 04:49:00 PM »
Um, no.
There is more than one Gary in the world.
Yeah, I'm well aware, It's just not common you should quote someone by name so I figured its Gary from VFTW.
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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #462 on: September 06, 2017, 04:55:06 PM »
FTFY

-1. I'm getting horror stories about the way Iberia treated my mother with a bunch of kids more than 3 decades ago  ;D

They haven't changed much.

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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #463 on: September 06, 2017, 05:17:33 PM »
Airlines have trained us that we are self loading cargo.
Comments like this show why this won't go viral: https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/airlines/airline-news/nightmare-spain-iberia-airlines-strands-3-children/#comment-1324312
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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #464 on: September 06, 2017, 05:24:04 PM »
Airlines have trained us that we are self loading cargo.
Comments like this show why this won't go viral: https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/airlines/airline-news/nightmare-spain-iberia-airlines-strands-3-children/#comment-1324312

I kind of had a feeling you'd be getting a lot of that.

Had the 17 year old been younger you'd have a different story here.   

And again I totally disagree with the airlines not trying to find 3 other people.

At the end of the day how you can take 3 minors off involuntary when they aren't even old enough to compensate them is just ridiculous IMHO.
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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #465 on: September 06, 2017, 05:39:09 PM »
Airlines have trained us that we are self loading cargo.
Comments like this show why this won't go viral: https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/airlines/airline-news/nightmare-spain-iberia-airlines-strands-3-children/#comment-1324312
The guy kind of has a point IMHO. I'm not justifying Iberia's attitude, but is it really such a big deal for a 17 year-old to fly and care for younger siblings in such a scenario?
I went to yeshiva outside my home country and had to fly often "all by myself."
Plenty of girls go to seminary thousands of miles from home at age 17.
I'm sure plenty of us travel-lovers on here were flying to foreign countries at age 17, no?

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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #466 on: September 06, 2017, 05:51:03 PM »
The guy kind of has a point IMHO. I'm not justifying Iberia's attitude, but is it really such a big deal for a 17 year-old to fly and care for younger siblings in such a scenario?
I went to yeshiva outside my home country and had to fly often "all by myself."
Plenty of girls go to seminary thousands of miles from home at age 17.
I'm sure plenty of us travel-lovers on here were flying to foreign countries at age 17, no?
That's not really same. Here the grandparents accompanied them to the airport and the mother expected to know where they are the entire time until landing, where, I assume the she was waiting. Then they got bumped and were out of the airport, unplanned - now that's very scary for a parent so far away

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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #467 on: September 06, 2017, 06:04:28 PM »
Can there be a notify thread like the sizzling flight deals thread that gets updated whenever Dan asks for suggestions about a post? Had I seen this in time I woulda joined the discussion and raised the issue of being verbose/chronicling vs. being pithy/punchy.

There was probably no chance of this story going viral regardless because (BH) everyone was fine once the ordeal was over. Had there been lasting damage ch"v people would be screaming for blood. But I think this story will pay off in the future in a  "this also happened" way.
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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #468 on: September 06, 2017, 06:16:29 PM »
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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #469 on: September 06, 2017, 06:21:10 PM »
IS it possible that the motivation to bump them was precisely because they couldn't be compensated and therefore they save money?

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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #470 on: September 06, 2017, 06:23:23 PM »
IS it possible that the motivation to bump them was precisely because they couldn't be compensated and therefore they save money?
absolutely and thats why they should be punished (so it that it doesn;t happen again to someone else and that money wont ever be part of that decision again )

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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #472 on: September 06, 2017, 06:42:25 PM »
Feelings don't care about your facts

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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #473 on: September 06, 2017, 07:27:51 PM »
You should add this to your post.
Lol, to show what?
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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #474 on: September 06, 2017, 07:30:32 PM »
Lol, to show what?
How they disregard the issue and still going in circles
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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #478 on: September 06, 2017, 09:29:08 PM »
Worth a retweet?
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Re: Has This Ever Happened To You With IBeria Airlines-Minors Bumped?
« Reply #479 on: September 07, 2017, 01:57:45 AM »
imagine if the hotel the airline chose had a policy requiring an adult to check-in
i remember not being to check-in to a hotel that i had booked once, when i was underage