Delta kicked 50 passengers off flight

[700UW]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2517469/Delta-kicked-50-passengers-flight-Sunday-Thanksgiving-charter-plane-Florida-Gators-basketball-team.html
 

 

Delta kicked 50 passengers off flight the Sunday after Thanksgiving so it could charter a plane for the Florida Gators basketball team

• The full flight from Gainesville, Florida, was canceled, even though passengers could see their plane sitting on the tarmac
• The Delta plane that the Florida Gators' chartered to get to Storrs, Connecticut, for a game had been grounded with mechanical problems

 

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[WorldTraveler]

if true, then it is bad and I hope you aren't expecting me to defend it.

 

[swamt]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2517469/Delta-kicked-50-passengers-flight-Sunday-Thanksgiving-charter-plane-Florida-Gators-basketball-team.html

Great customer service here. You know Delta had plenty of time to revamp some aircraft and fly the team out the next morning as their game was not until Mon night. I hope all the passengers find other means of transportation. Hope they move their business to other airlines in the future...

 

[robbedagain]

i smell a lawsuit comin  
  poor poor absolute complete disgusting way dl handled that    absolutely no excuse for that  

 

[FrugalFlyerv2.0]

if true, then it is bad and I hope you aren't expecting me to defend it.

Actually that's exactly what we're expecting.

 

[WorldTraveler]

it was poor, robbed, but there are rules about flight cancellations.

It isn't the first time that an airline has taken a plane from one flight for another... don't think you will find lawsuits.

Bad handling for sure. not sure why anyone would expect a defense of very poor handling.

Also, if it was a 50 seater, it was a Delta connection operator, not Delta. I have no idea if DL had any part of the decision and I do get that DCI carriers act on behalf of DL but if it was a 50 seater, DL didn't operate the flight and each carrier is kept accountable for its own operations with the DOT.


swamt,
read that WN was fined for improperly operating a 717 by FL over 1000 times. did they have time to fix that problem?

 

[700UW]

swamt,
read that WN was fined for improperly operating a 717 by FL over 1000 times. did they have time to fix that problem?

You are off topic, using your own words, throw yourself off the boards.
 
The Federal Aviation Administration is proposing two fines totaling $987,500 against Delta Air Lines for allegedly operating two commercial planes in need of repairs.
 
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/11/business/la-fi-mo-faa-fines-delta-20120711

 

[WorldTraveler]

so I'm off topic to throw in WN's fine but it's ok for you to do the same about DL on a topic that is about a charter flight that took the aircraft for a scheduled flight?

If DL is wrong, they should pay the fine. Did you expect me to say something else?

The article you cite is almost a year and a half old. Did you notice that?

 

[Kev3188]

This happens more than you'd think. it's not common, but it's not uncommon, either.
 
JMO, but there are a lot of impulsive decisions made at the DCI level that can often wind up having a wide range of unintended consequences. This can also be a knock on effect of different depts. not talking to each other, depending on which DCI operator we're talking about. 
 
Sidebar: Anyone else notice the focus on people being able to see "their" aircraft? How is that any different than when one needs an engine change, but is still at the gate?

 

[metopower]

This story is only a story if Delta is in the sentence .

 

[robbedagain]

kev  ive actually never heard of taking a revenue flight and cancelling it and then chartering it for a college sports  although i would think that dl would use a mainline plane to charter the gators but i do not know about that...
 
as for taking one plane out to use it for another is one thing  but with all of the planes dl has  would it been a lot easier just to steal a plane from atl for example and fly it down to fla to take the gators to connecticut?

 

[FWAAA]

I feel bad for the passengers who missed important events like the one who missed a funeral.   ExpressJet did them wrong, from the information available.
 
Having said that, the real sad story here is that the U of FLA thinks so little of their basketball players that they would cram them onto a crappy 50-seat CRJ for a flight to Connecticut.   OUCH!
 
The 50-seaters don't have Economy Comfort, do they?    

 

[BABABOOY]

You are off topic, using your own words, throw yourself off the boards.
 
The Federal Aviation Administration is proposing two fines totaling $987,500 against Delta Air Lines for allegedly operating two commercial planes in need of repairs.
 
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/11/business/la-fi-mo-faa-fines-delta-20120711

July 12 2012? Seriously? And the article says "Proposed fine" 

 

[Kev3188]

This story is only a story if Delta is in the sentence .

I disagree. This sort of story is a (lazy) copy editor's dream, regardless of which carrier is in the headline.
 
 

kev  ive actually never heard of taking a revenue flight and cancelling it and then chartering it for a college sports  although i would think that dl would use a mainline plane to charter the gators but i do not know about that...

Basketball and hockey teams generally travel on CRJ's (assuming it's a doable flight range-wise).

That aside, I can't see why a spare wasn't pulled from elsewhere- even if it was a different carrier. That's done all the time for "regular" flights, so why not here? All the more so given some of the pull down that was done for the holiday weekend.
 

 
 

I feel bad for the passengers who missed important events like the one who missed a funeral.   ExpressJet did them wrong, from the information available.
 
Having said that, the real sad story here is that the U of FLA thinks so little of their basketball players that they would cram them onto a crappy 50-seat CRJ for a flight to Connecticut.   OUCH!
 
The 50-seaters don't have Economy Comfort, do they?

AFAIK, no.

 

[robbedagain]

thanks kev