From the NY Daily News:

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Can this bunch get anything right? Two employees looked at her boarding pass where it said "Paris" and put her on a plane to San Francisco. I recommend that anyone coming to the States use BA, Virgin Atlantic or any other carrier except an American airline. You might end up in Timbuktu, if you get off the ground at all.

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Utterly crazy to buy tickets for a flight only to be removed from security due to airline's incompetence re: overbooking. Passengers affected should be allowed to sue.

I don't know why they are allowed to overbook. Once all the seats are sold they should only be allowed to sell standby.

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I'm having a small problem with videos right now but I read something about it online that didn't explain it as well as you. One day I'll have to tell you what TWA did to me when I flew home in 1991 for my father's funeral. The short story of this was I flew back to London on Virgin Atlantic.

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Here goes. I arrived at Selhurst Park to steward the ZDS match against Norwich when one of the receptionists came out to get me. My then wife was on the phone to tell me my father was dying and my mother had booked me business class on TWA at noon the next day to fly back to New York. Her company's travel department made the reservation and for some reason Palace Travel couldn't retrieve the info and ticket for me. So, the next morning I get out to Heathrow. It took over an hour for me to get ticketed and I waited over an hour and a half to check my bag. By the time I got out to the gate the flight was closed so first they wanted to put me on flight to Chicago and finally put on a flight to Boston First Class. When I got to Logan I had to wait another hour and a half to booked on a Pan Am commuter to JFK. By the time I got to the TWA terminal at JFK it was 7 PM and both my checked bag and my mother were nowhere to be seen. The "customer service" person refused to page her and I was stuck. Fortunately, I was able to call a relative who got a hold of my mother and she came back to pick me up. She had been at the airport but I when she asked the "customer service" person where I was when I didn't arrive on my scheduled flight the answer was, "How the hell should I know!" Never mind that tWA London telexed a list of bumped passengers from that flight and what happened to them. I know this because when I went to "customer service" there was the list with my name at the top (helps to have a last name that starts "Ba.." ). While waiting to be picked up I called Virgin Atlantic to see if I could exchange my return ticket to fly with them and they said of course. My bag showed up the next day (Friday) and my dad passed early Saturday morning. The funeral was Sunday and I flew back that evening in Upper Class. To say that Virgin was far superior to TWA in every respect would be an understatement. That and Palace winning 2-1 away to Leeds were the only things that kept me somewhat sane that weekend.

Edited by kenbarr (09 May 2017 3.06am)

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