HM The Queen wrenched on Rovers and whatnot in the war as a teen/ young adult.

I feel you, Peter, but dumbasses are the vast majority in this world, and they never understood technical terms and realities to begin with. Some of them even write self-righteous blog posts about things they don’t comprehend.

There are a few 737's like this.

If we can teach a robot to fly a plane we can teach one to run a diagnostic and take apart other ‘bots.

Lol “Gigantic” jet engine.

“the airline could have taken 30 seconds to reissue a ticket under the correct name”

Notice how the quotation ends in “provided-” As in, “Provided the following stipulations are met”. Here the is paragraph that comes immediately after the quote; the first stipulation:

“The airline allowed the transfer of his 18 yr old seat to one of his younger children. This was done with airline approval prior to boarding.”

“freshly washed blankets are only supplied to the first flights of the day; after that they’re just folded and reused.” Sorry but this is BS as a blanket (sorry) statement. It may be true for some airlines, but definitely not all the majors. Used pillows and blankets are visibly wrinkled and dirty, just folded they…

I hope Jalopnik “executives” are looking into the eye of this shitstorm and are maybe at least considering hiring employees that can interpret rules and their relevance to real-life situations.

Delta was not violating rule 121.311. The context of that rule is when the child has his own seat. In other words, airlines must allow children to sit in a car seat rather than force them to sit directly in an aircraft seat.

Rules are ok to follow when they don’t kill or harm people. Asking someone to abide by the terms they agreed to is not unreasonable. You’re conflating inconvenience with genocide....

The FAA rule is that a child traveling infant in arms HAS TO FLY IN SOMEONE’S ARMS and not in a seat, because the child doesn’t have his own ticket. She stated it a little strangely but that’s the reality. BTW the FAA does regularly fine the hell out of airlines for breaking FAA rules.

The dad refused to put the kid in his lap long enough for the cops to show up BEFORE the video stars.

If they had scanned the older son’s ticket, which would be illegal, the airline would not have put someone else in that seat. They re-assigned the seat because the passenger who was supposed to be in it (older son) didn’t show up. I would bet a lot of money that if the family had called the airline when they bought…

This would lead to higher fares and fewer available seats for the flying public, which would just make it even harder for everyone to get where they want to be.

Right. But the guy in the video was refusing to do that. He had been refusing long enough for the police to be involved BEFORE the video even starts. That’s what caused the actual problem.

Yeah, Do As You Please At All Times Airlines is so much better... Business with rules are so lame.

Because the passenger whose name was previously attached to that seat (the older child on the earlier flight) NEVER CHECKED IN for the flight. So they assigned it to someone else.

Lololololol. Never flown standby I see.