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Outrage-U.S. Airways attendant refuses to hang up veteran's medal-filled jacket to stop creasing
The London Daily Mail ^ | October 10, 2014 | Sophie Jane Evans

Posted on 10/10/2014 7:52:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: txrefugee

I’ve heard that SW and US Air are merging. Is that true?


41 posted on 10/11/2014 6:07:31 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (Nothing says you are sad that someone died like looting local places of business!)
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To: bigdaddy45

It wasn’t rules, she just didn’t want to!! B****!!!

I mean, there are surely guidelines, but every airline will allow for “best judgement”
This airline is apologizing, not because they’re sorry (or they’d do something great for the serviceman) but it’s CYA time. grrrrrrr


42 posted on 10/11/2014 6:09:52 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (Nothing says you are sad that someone died like looting local places of business!)
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To: bigdaddy45

Maybe that’s what you think, but they are (usually) quite smart and accomplished. At least with my son’s former airline. He was a flight attendant and they have intensive training on how to treat customers, how to handle this emergency and that emergency. You would be surprised.


43 posted on 10/11/2014 6:14:38 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (Nothing says you are sad that someone died like looting local places of business!)
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To: txrefugee

Ok, wrong airline, it’s apparently American, not SW.


44 posted on 10/11/2014 6:17:12 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (Nothing says you are sad that someone died like looting local places of business!)
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To: Shimmer1

It wasn’t rules, she just didn’t want to!! B****!!!


Exactamundo. Bad hair day, wrong time of the month, etc. I’m sure she had a good reason for not doing it.


45 posted on 10/11/2014 6:34:10 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: bigdaddy45

Have you seen the coat in question? I think you might change your mind (daughter of a Marine dad and six other military family members)


46 posted on 10/11/2014 7:16:25 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: fatnotlazy

Your understanding of the history of US Airways is in error. One idiot F/A dowe not represent the airline. Unlike you I am very personally acquainted with the airline


47 posted on 10/11/2014 11:27:27 AM PDT by Tzfat
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To: Tzfat

As I said, at one time US Airways had a virtual monopoly on air travel here. So I had to fly with that airline; for the most part I had no other choice. As a frequent passenger, I have more than my share of stories of lousy service and a general bad attitude. I’m not the only one. I worked for 35 years in a law office and if I treated clients the way this airline treated me on more than one occasion, I would be out of a job. But as far as I know, none of the employees with whom I had a bad encounter, were never disciplined and I never received so much of an apology from the airline.

Give me Southwest or any of a number of other airlines. At least they don’t regard their passengers as less than human.


48 posted on 10/11/2014 12:09:58 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: fatnotlazy

So your anecdotal experience with an airline you do not like reveals the real reason this flight andendant did this stupid thing? That is called a strawman. And just because YOU don’t know if employees are disciplined for stupid things does not make it true. Your logic has failed on many levels.

I can tell you first hand that US Airways employees are disciplined for stupid things they might do. I’ve made sure of it on more than one occasion.


49 posted on 10/11/2014 12:34:20 PM PDT by Tzfat
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To: SkyDancer

It’s a coat. I may have gotten wrinkled. Yes, the flight attendant was being stupid. But I’m not going to equate this with the kidnapping of the LIndbergh baby. My “outrage” meter requires something a bit more heinous.


50 posted on 10/11/2014 1:31:12 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: bigdaddy45

I think I used the word “appalled” instead of outraged. Still in all ....


51 posted on 10/11/2014 1:59:21 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: Celtic Conservative

“not sure what the shoulder cord is for”

I was a combat engineer but my brother was a Ranger and he had the blue cord. I’m pretty sure it’s for infantry.


52 posted on 10/11/2014 5:43:53 PM PDT by HenpeckedCon (What pi$$es me off the most is that POS commie will get a State Funeral!)
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