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Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861
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Date: 
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 01:16:40 GMT
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Jasper Janssen wrote:
_bumped_ from a flight? You mean, as in, you've payed for a ticket,
plane leaves on time, you were there, but there was no room for you
because some bigwig payed them bigtime to get in ahead of you? Is that
_legal_?!

Not only legal, but a completely normal daily business practice.  I
understand the interest they make on tickets paid for bumped flights is
staggering.

And that's my conspiracy theory of the day.

Cheers,
- jsproat

--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/
"The world will not perish for want of wonders but for want of wonder"
-- British scientist J. B. S. Haldane (1892-1964)



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  Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861
 
(...) _bumped_ from a flight? You mean, as in, you've payed for a ticket, plane leaves on time, you were there, but there was no room for you because some bigwig payed them bigtime to get in ahead of you? Is that _legal_?! Jasper (25 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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