Parkland mother gets free chartered jet flight two ways May 02, 2018 | Registered: 10 years ago Posts: 2,061 |
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yurble
Who immediately thinks of calling a charter flight, under any circumstances? Charter flights aren't a part of my world, they're for people with lots of $$$.
If I needed to get somewhere quickly, I'd call a regular airline or book through the website. I'd expect to pay a premium for a last-minute flight, maybe $1000 if it normally costs $300. And that's assuming I would book the flight...in the case of someone being dead I don't see what difference it makes to be there, unless it is to support/grieve with someone else.
But that's breeders for you - do what feels right and worry about the consequences later. I would never buy something without inquiring into the cost, if it was a service I hadn't purchased before and it sounded expensive.
Re: Parkland mother gets free chartered jet flight two ways May 02, 2018 | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 1,802 |
Re: Parkland mother gets free chartered jet flight two ways May 03, 2018 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 12,434 |
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Tiquer
What's the downside to the charter company to say they are not forgiving the bill? Chances are, they are not a publicly traded company that has to answer to stockholders or deal with customer boycotts from people who book flights based on price alone. They are a niche service that caters to high end clients.
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Edit: the article mentioned this woman did first try to fly commercial, but there were no available flights. Even so, Talon Air is a for profit business, and it's unfair to expect a business you have no relationship with (because if she did, she'd have some idea of the cost) to donate $36K to a total stranger just because.
Re: Parkland mother gets free chartered jet flight two ways May 03, 2018 | Registered: 10 years ago Posts: 880 |
Re: Parkland mother gets free chartered jet flight two ways May 04, 2018 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 2,308 |
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addiea raine
I find this really hard to believe that this woman couldn't find something. Airlines are really good about asking if anyone would be willing to take a voucher for a later flight in cases of emergencies like this. They love the PR and considering what happened, I'm sure that this is what would have happened. I looked up where Islip is in New York.....New Jersey isn't that far and neither is Maryland. There is no way in Hell she wouldn't have been able to find a flight out.
Re: Parkland mother gets free chartered jet flight two ways May 04, 2018 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,199 |
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But I was called callous, shallow, and mean spirited when I refused to donate to the Sandy Hook families after the tragic events which happened there some years back. I simply asked the question, "Why would well-to-do and wealthy New England families need money from a 9-5 working stiff apartment dweller?!?" I understand the concept of funeral expenses, etc., but once those are covered, that's pretty much it for a non-breadwinner of a family. Money isn't going to be helpful in these situations.
Re: Parkland mother gets free chartered jet flight two ways May 05, 2018 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 12,434 |
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bell_flower
It was not the government's place to use taxpayer money to pay these people. I know the standard explanation was, this was necessary because the airlines would have been bankrupted by the settlements. They should have crossed that bridge at that time.
If a decision was made to pay people, then everyone should have received the same amount, from a restaurant worker to an investment banker. A life is a life. It became a slippery slope with the relatives of the deceased demanding to be paid more when the deceased made more money to compensate for their financial loss. (They got it.) Pretty distasteful all around.
Re: Parkland mother gets free chartered jet flight two ways May 05, 2018 | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 1,802 |
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yurble
If a person loses quality of life due to work, and that work is in public service or for the government, the government should compensate. We'd expect a company to pay if the worker is injured in a warehouse, how is this different?