After landing in Baltimore at 0115 this morning, I curled up in a quiet spot in the airport for a few hours before my 0600 departure to PHL on the obscenely expensive 90-mile BWI-PHL flight.
As I walked over to the deserted US Express gates, two rats scurrying around D36 greeted me. Lovely. I managed to fall asleep quickly, but was awakened an hour later by the cleaning crew, loudly discussing the Baltimore Ravens and how hot Beyonce was. For good measure, every other word was a vulgar one and they somehow deemed it fitting to take a break and have their conversation just a few paces from where I was trying to sleep.
But all was not lost: at 0530 a US Airways representative stated that he would be needing one volunteer to take a later flight to PHL and was offering a $450 voucher. Score! Or not…
I agreed to give up my seat and he thanked me, told me to have a seat, and that he would process the VDB after he got the flight out.
About ten minutes later he received a phone call informing him that the FA’s seat was broken on the CRJ and an additional volunteer would be needed. He made several announcements pleading for one more volunteer, then in exasperation stated that the last one to board would be his second volunteer.
Unreasonable? Nah! We’re talking about US Airways here!
I think you are. You are complaining because you got a seat on the flight you booked. Now you wanted 450 bucks because you weren’t picked to get bumped. Kind of prissy if you asked me
@Jay: I hear you, but I adjusted my plans because the gate agent told me that he would take my seat–not just that he may take my seat.
Legally, we formed an oral contract and I detrimentally relied on it in adjusting my morning plans in PHL.