On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:54:23 GMT, "None" wrote:


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The only problem with all this is that if the airline gets enough
people to accept vouchers voluntarily then you don't get bumped at all
and get nothing but your original flight. They aren't that stupid.

Oh, but they are. Airlines invol passengers all the time and managers
instruct their gate agents to list them as "voluntary" because they hand
them a voucher and get them to sign the release.

Oh really? And just what proof do you have of this other than just
posting it and making some claim?


Many people aren't aware of the cash law, and the airlines take full
advantage of that because they don't tell them, which they are supposed to
do. International passengers get jerked around the most because they aren't
aware of U.S. travel laws.

Says who? Show me where it says that the airlines have to tell a
passenger what the law is. And again some me some proof you have of
international passengers getting jerked around. When airlines think
that they may need to bump someone they ask for volunteers. If they
need them, they offer compensation, usually vouchers. They have
absolutely no obligation to offer anyone cash nor to tell them that
they can refuse and if involuntarily bumped can get cash. Only if
they don't get enough volunteers do they have to involuntarily bump
someone and then give them their options. If a passenger isn't aware
of the law, that's their problem not the airlines. Ever hear that
ignorance of the law is no excuse?


I was involuntarily bumped twice this year, both times I demanded cash
compensation, and both times the agents had to check with management,
because the agent wasn't aware even, that the cash law existed. Of course,
they offered a voucher, which I quickly turned down. Why take a stinking
200 dollar voucher that the airline will write off, when 400 in cold hard
cash is what I am owed?

So that makes all agents for the airlines involved the same? Or all
airlines the same? Your post is typical of all those that have some
bad experience (real or imagined) then go out and blame a whole
industry for one or two incidents (being perfect themselves, of
course).


If you don't teach them, they'll never learn.


Since you're so good, why don't you go out and turn around the airline
industry then?