Posted on 02/24/2018 9:27:19 AM PST by EdnaMode
Two airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines, announced Saturday that they are ending discounted-rate deals with the National Rifle Association, adding to a growing list of companies distancing themselves from the gun-rights lobby group as it fights a push for stricter gun control measures after a deadly high school shooting on Valentine's Day in Parkland, Fla.
"Delta is reaching out to the NRA to let them know we will be ending their contract for discounted rates through our group travel program. We will be requesting that the NRA remove our information from their website," Delta tweeted early in the morning.
Delta ✔ @Delta Delta is reaching out to the NRA to let them know we will be ending their contract for discounted rates through our group travel program. We will be requesting that the NRA remove our information from their website. 8:32 AM - Feb 24, 2018
Hours later, United Airlines issued a similar statement.
"United is notifying the NRA that we will no longer offer a discounted rate to their annual meeting and we are asking that the NRA remove our information from their website," their tweet said.
United Airlines ✔ @united United is notifying the NRA that we will no longer offer a discounted rate to their annual meeting and we are asking that the NRA remove our information from their website. 10:26 AM - Feb 24, 2018
The Florida shooting suspect, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, allegedly used a Colt AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, purchased legally, in the attack that left 17 people dead and more than a dozen more injured. The teenager, who had received marksmanship training in a Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program supported by the NRA Foundation, also owned at least six other long guns, according to police.
After the shooting, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have led an effort calling on lawmakers to pass restrictive gun measures. The NRA, however, has not been moved.
Speaking at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, Wayne LaPierre, the NRA's executive vice president, called for more armed school security and blamed Democrats and the media for politicizing school shootings.
Since then, starting with the First National Bank of Omaha on Thursday, a number of business have announced they are severing ties with the NRA, including MetLife, the New York-based insurer, and auto-rental service Enterprise.
That’s OK, I almost always fly Southwest, better customer service. And I am not an NRA member just for the discounts, along with millions of other members.
Every so often there is an outbreak of hysteria. Something happens, the media hypes it, some shallow-thinking individuals get all excited about it, and it becomes a fad that sweeps the country. People do stupid things without thinking, because it’s the “latest” thing. Social media loves shallow, stupid things, and propagates them to shallow, stupid people who forward them to other shallow, stupid people.
Before long, all the shallow, stupid people have jumped on the bandwagon, and the fad fades away, only to be replaced by the next one.
I just closed my account with Enterprise. Not a big account, but maybe if enough people drop their accounts they will take notice. So disappointing. There are two other companies under the same parent corporation, one is Alamo, not sure of the other.
Not having flown since 1996 and having no plans to do so in the future, this doesn’t affect me personally.
But I agree, why are companies penalizing folks just because they belong to the NRA? I know lots of folks who belong to the NRA. Some do it for comradeship. Some do it as a learning exercise. Some don’t shoot at all. Some are really gung-ho and shoot often and enjoy it.
Why are these companies doing this? PR has to be the reason. The glow of the PR will be short lived.
So the airlines and the NRA stuck together after 9/11, and with or without an NRA relationship haven’t allowed a gun on their planes in decades...
... And NOW they are severing the ties ? Yeah.
Yep......girl, this is the year we can destroy the Democrat Party, from A-Z., start right now, and never let up, until every Democrat is defeated. Case closed!!!
I thought bullying was bad .....United and Delta
Hear hear!
It’s the demonization of an organization that matters.
Two cowardly airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines, announced Saturday that they are ending discounted-rate deals with the National Rifle Association.
Apparently the airlines have managers with disordered minds punishing the innocent so they can wallow in their ignorance while catering to low information gun control leftists.
It makes me concerned about flying with airlines that feature managers that are supposed to make decisions about airline safety. Demonstrating shallow, unjustified, and hasty decisions is NOT a characteristic of management responsible for the health and safety of millions of airline passengers.
So switch after you use your points.
I’m an NRA member and didn’t even know these discounts were available. I’ll go on doing just fine without them.
They don’t give discounts to anyone that doesn’t belong to some group that has enough membership and economic muscle to shift buying preference to competitors that do. For Delta and United to both eliminate NRA simultaneously looks suspiciously like taking advantage of the situation, collaborating to eliminate competition of one against the other.
Paris isn’t Paris, anymore :...(
To what exactly when my home city is a Delta hub?
eh; depends on where in Paris you go. We stay in the pricey Arrondissements.
I smell Valerie Jarrett.
This is all too co-ordinated.
Favors are being called in.
Flying American today.
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