The gate agent last night who blocked the Deadheading Capt from sitting in a nice seat up front (long leg) because she saved it for her family member non reving

Is that allowed? If its known for a fact that's what happened, that agent could be in heap big trouble over that if tis followed up on.

I don't get it. He's disabled and felt bad that he boarded last, and couldn't get a first class seat? If he wanted a first class seat that badly, all he had to do was pay for it...

I agree that it can be an uncomfortable experience to travel if you are disabled, but people do it all the time without crying.

Really? She mustn't travel very much

I hope his plan was not to book a coach seat and show up fully expecting a FC upgrade. FC is almost always full anyway, so to show up, especially last minute, expecting to trade seats with someone already in FC and getting mad when it doesn't happen is pretty unreasonable. Blaming the airline in that situation is even more unfair. Flying with a major illness/fever (was it contageous?) just adds more guaranteed bad outcome to this.

If I was in FC I would have traded with him, and I think we do need to empower front line employees to take a few minutes to work out important issues over the all mighty D-0 so while we could have possibly handeled this better, it is very unreasonable to try and accuse DL of being anti veteran or whatever the thesis of that article was trying to do.

Why didn't they move him to FC after they were airborne with those that offered to switch? D+0 met, FAA regs met (door closed).

Methinks this is being blown out of proportion by the media and the Col (?) mentioned in the other thread with an agenda.

104F he should not have been flying in any seat - other than an air ambulance.

Was he even in uniform?

How would anyone know he's a Vet unless he was?

Sounds to me like he ended up sitting next to this one gal, in back, who later, found out he was a vet, and then she back filled the "Delta hates Vets" story enroute.

If he was in uniform, why didn't one of the F/C seat swappers swap with him as he went by, rather than wait until he was all the way in the back, or as mentioned above, swap after takeoff?

Flew with an Australian captain in the commuters who used to insist on making ALL p.a. announcements to the passengers because "passengers find my accent more comforting than your American accent."

Yet in fact, "Captain Kangaroo" once made an announcement after a precautionary landing due to a minor maintenance issue where he told the passengers, "Not to worry folks, because at no time were your lives in danger."

Best part was that it sounded like good ole Steve Irwin: "...at no toim wa yo loives in daaaaynga." I'm sure that was refreshing for Mr. Businessman to hear.

What a tool.

Pilots or flight attendants who loudly ***** about the airline, their coworkers, and the passengers while riding on a hotel bus that is full of passengers.

The guy at the gas station who was washing his CAR with a squeegee. Tizool.

Maynard James Keenan