Comments on: Why I feel bad for off-duty airline employees

By: Cameron

Cameron — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:48:12 +0000

Hi there, I saw your post a while ago about soliciting questions and advice-seekers.

I recently booked a non-refundable roundtrip ticket with United, and then plans changed and I won’t be using the return flight (which has two legs). I figure I would like to notify them, so they can resell the seat if they like, or whatever, but is it possible to negotiate any credit from them in addition? Thanks.

By: First

First — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:07:04 +0000

Lucky,
Thanks for sharing the great pics! awesome.

Who get to sit in BusinessFirst section?

By: lucky

lucky — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:58:17 +0000

Yes Oliver, it took only a few minutes and we were still 30 minutes early.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:28:39 +0000

I am not employed by an airline and probably not qualified to comment, but neither was this rude passenger, so I’ll take a stab anyway: airlines probably don’t have a ton of extra stuff sitting around idle at the airport. The staff that receives an inbound aircraft probably just finished sending out another one, either from the same gate or from another one. In this case, it seems (since there was no other aircraft at the gate) that they probably came from another gate. “Calling ahead” doesn’t do much good if they are busy with another flight.

Besides, I take it the idiot still got off the plane ahead of the planned arrival time.

By: Gray

Gray — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:29:24 +0000

Wow – I’m impressed he was able to maintain composure. If I were him, I would’ve gone all four stripes on his @$$.