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re: How to get free stuff when airlines screw you?

Posted on 5/15/26 at 12:29 pm to
Posted by WarBoudin
Member since Aug 2024
1080 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 12:29 pm to
Have you tried playing the race card?
Posted by TDsngumbo
Member since Oct 2011
50745 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 12:30 pm to
Don't just sit there and accept this bullshite. When you get on the plane, take the roll of toilet paper out of the bathroom. I bet they'll think twice before delaying the next flight.
Posted by Cheese Grits
Wherever I lay my hat is my home
Member since Apr 2012
62241 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 12:31 pm to
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How to get free stuff when airlines screw you?


How things have changed in a PC world


In the old days you got free stuff when the hot airline stewardess screwed you. It was also a time when folks dressed up in their Sunday Best to fly and we still had manners.
Posted by zuluboudreaux
God’s country USA
Member since Jan 2008
1173 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 12:53 pm to
Delta One, Rome to New Orleans.
Stopped boarding due to a mechanical issue. Cancelled flight. Could not fly home till 48 hrs later.
European law - they paid each of us $650 for the delay.
Delta Customer service gave each of us $2,125 in Flight credits.
We flew 3 more round trips on the Delta $$$ - Key West, Miami & Knoxville.
Used the $1300 for hotels.

Didn’t even have to ask for anything.
Posted by Jmcc64
alabama
Member since Apr 2021
2183 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 1:08 pm to
Back in '23 KLM cancelled my flight from AMS to ATL about 3 hrs before the flight.
I ended up staying overnight then AMS-CDG-ATL the next day.

they reimbursed me for the hotel, food and threw in about $600 for my inconvenience.

I really didn't have to ask, just filled out forms and voila.
This post was edited on 5/15/26 at 1:09 pm
Posted by Bill Parker?
Member since Jan 2013
5391 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 1:46 pm to
I usually shite in my hand and throw it at the stewardess. Then I run up and down the center aisle of the plane on my knuckles, beat my chest, flare my nostrils and accuse them of disrespek.

I suggest you do the same.
Posted by Tarps99
Lafourche Parish
Member since Apr 2017
12693 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 2:56 pm to
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How good are your handjobs?


You could just start rubbing your leg against another man in a men’s room stall like US Senator Larry Craig from Idaho. He was a Republican.

quote:

On June 11, 2007, Craig was arrested for indecent behavior in a men's restroom at Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport; he pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct in August 2007 and paid $575 in court fines and fees. The arrest remained unknown to the public until the Washington, D.C.–based newspaper Roll Call disclosed it in an article, drawing widespread public attention as well as charges of hypocrisy against Craig, as he had been an opponent of LGBT rights in the United States.[2] Despite stating that he was not and never had been homosexual, on September 1, 2007, Craig announced that he would resign from the Senate, effective September 30, 2007. He later reversed this decision and chose to finish the remainder of his term, although he did not seek re-election in 2008.
This post was edited on 5/15/26 at 2:59 pm
Posted by fightin tigers
Downtown Prairieville
Member since Mar 2008
78383 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 2:58 pm to
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How to get free stuff when airlines screw you?


What until they serve the other side of the row then reach over and grab something off the cart.

Take the puke bags for later use.

Go take all the TP out the lav. Both of them.
Posted by ummagumma
Member since Aug 2012
343 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 3:01 pm to
Option 1 - act like your parents raised you and just be respectful and make note of company performance for future reference.

Option 2 - act like a Spirit “customer” and hope for a feature presentation on Worldstar and keep your respect.
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
92253 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 3:17 pm to
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1 - act like your parents raised you and just be respectful and make note of company performance for future reference


OP’s post and attitude is a reflection of why our society is so fricked right now
Posted by Rex Feral
Somewhere near Athens
Member since Jan 2014
16595 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 3:21 pm to
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US Senator Larry Craig from Idaho. He was a Republican.


That's an odd reference.
Posted by TygerLyfe
Member since May 2023
3972 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 3:25 pm to
Contact 777tiger directly, he's got the hookup
Posted by Friscodog
Frisco, TX
Member since Jul 2009
5066 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 3:33 pm to
Posted by Mid Iowa Tiger
Undisclosed Secure Location
Member since Feb 2008
24837 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 3:48 pm to
If your delay is weather related you’re SOL if it’s on the airline the. You get comped.
Posted by Boudreauboudreaugoly
Land of the Rice n Son
Member since Oct 2017
2967 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 4:06 pm to
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What tricks and tips do yall know to get free shite from these vultures of the skies?


Do Y0gi and B00B00 know about you?
Posted by cgrand
HAMMOND
Member since Oct 2009
48924 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 4:25 pm to
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Boudreauboudreaugoly
that username will never not make me laugh
Posted by ClientNumber9
Member since Feb 2009
10109 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 4:57 pm to
What's the delay from? Weather? You get nothing for that. Mechanical? Call customer service and they'll probably throw something at you just two shut you up. Maybe a $50 voucher or something.
Posted by The Pirate King
Pangu
Member since May 2014
68414 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 4:58 pm to
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when airlines screw you

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delayed on a connecting flight over two hours


Wut. That wouldn't even rank in my top 50 of being screwed by airlines.
Posted by Zap Rowsdower
MissLou, La
Member since Sep 2010
16202 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 5:20 pm to
Delta gave me $300 gift card once for giving up my seat because of a weight issue that caused 1.5 hour delay. By that time I wasn’t making my connecting flight anyway and much preferred the quiet little regional airport with no crowds at the bar I was in to wait for a rearranged flight schedule.

That’s about all I can to the conversation unless you want to hear about having drinks with a lady who was flying to a rehab center and had a theory to give herself a horrible hangover to start the program off so she could go through with “I’m never drinking again.”
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
122162 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 5:20 pm to
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What tricks and tips do yall know to get free shite


What is it with people who think they deserve some free shite when things don't go their way? There are delays, flight cancelations, etc that happen. shite happens, sometimes you just have to ride it out. You have to know how to talk your way into something and having the attitude "how do I get free shite when the airlines screw up?" isn't the attitude you use to do that.

You have to communicate with people in away where they will think "you know what? I like that guy, is day is being disrupted so I am going to do something to maybe make it a little better". No one wants to deal with the person who thinks they are owed something for things that are out of other people's hands.
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