Originally Posted by
robthree
Not so good with reading comprehension? Or do you just lack experience with traveling with children? And any semblance of empathy.
Its 1 in the morning. You've been bumped. Which happens. And we all have to live with it. You've got the wife and a couple of kids under 10 who are all tired and cranky. You need a place to rest. A hotel rooms sounds perfect. Drag your kids out to the curb, wait for the shuttle, slog over to the hotel, check in, slog up to the room. Who _cares_ what the cost is. Even if they're giving them away for free. now its 2am. The kids are out. But you better not be. Because you have to be in line at security at 6. Which means in three hours you need to be vertical, and ready to slog them back down stairs, back onto the van, stand in line at security, and schlep them back down to the gate to be there an hour before departure on the first flight of the day.
A hotel room isn't ideal. Even a free one. A couch in a quiet corner is what a family needs when you're stuck in an airport for less than 6 hours. The crew room would be the ideal place for that rest. You would almost certainly not be bothering anyone. Certainly no pilots would be using the crew room for their legally required pre-duty rest period, right?
That it is an ideal location, and you are unlikely to disturb anyone does not make it any more allowable - there have been several notices given out that families are not allowed in crew rooms at any time. But if you haven't seen such a notice, it is a reasonable question to ask.
You're rude. A jerk. And a generational bigot. Go pound sand.
That still sounds entitled. I got a wife and 2 young kids too, never been stuck at 2am at an airport because I do my best to make sure they don't end up in that position. If it's holidays or what I think is a busy travel season, I buy tickets. If I nonrev with them, I make sure to check for decent loads and multiple options out of that airport.
"A couch in a quiet corner is what a family needs when you're stuck in an airport for less than 6 hours. The crew room would be the ideal place for that rest."
What the family needed was you to pony up and buy tickets when the loads were that bad you faced being stranded. The crew room is for crews. Define "ideal place." If you're that stranded guy with family, I guess your ideal place is the crew room. If there's a crew member resting in the crew room just looking for peace and quiet, then his ideal place for YOU would be a hotel or upstairs on the chairs like the rest of society.
Your 'baggage' and lack of planning shouldn't involve using company rest facilities in order to cheapen out even more. (Didn't buy tickets, don't want a hotel room, and don't want to sleep on chairs like the rest of the flying public).