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Old July 6th, 2017, 09:14 AM posted to rec.travel.air, alt.airports, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics,sac.politics
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Default United Airlines gives 2-year-old's seat away to standby passenger

United Airlines requires children over the age of 2 to have
their own tickets and occupy their own seats, but that didn’t
stop the airline from allowing a 27-month-old child from sitting
in his mother’s lap after they accidentally oversold his spot.

Shirley Yamauchi says she and her son Taizo had boarded their
flight from Houston to Boston on June 29 — the final leg of an
18-hour flight from Hawaii — when a standy passenger approached
and claimed Taizo was in his seat.

"I told him that I bought both of these tickets and he tells me
that he got the ticket on standby. Then he proceeds to sit in
the center,” Yamauchi told Hawaii News Now.

Yamuachi says she tried to inform a flight attendant about
Taizo’s seat, but the woman claimed she couldn’t do anything
about it, seeing as the flight was full.

Not wanting to cause a scene — or worse, instigate an incident
like the one that befell the elderly United passenger who
refused to give up his seat on in April — Yamuachi sat Taizo on
her lap and kept her mouth shut until she reached Boston.

"I started remembering all those incidents with United on the
news. The violence. Teeth getting knocked out. I'm Asian. I'm
scared and I felt uncomfortable. I didn't want those things to
happen to me," she told Hawaii News Now.

Upon reaching Boston, Yamauchi was told to call a United hotline
to explain the situation. But when she finally got through and
asked for a refund, she was told that United would need to
cancel her return trip to Hawaii in order to do so, reports KITV.

In total, Yamauchi told Hawaii News Now she had paid nearly
$2,000 for both tickets.

A United spokesperson tells Fox News that the airline has
already reached out to Yamauchi to apologize for the incident.
The airline also pinpointed the cause of the seating snafu,
explaining that Taizo’s ticket was incorrectly scanned at the
gate.

“On a recent flight from Houston to Boston, we inaccurately
scanned the boarding pass of Ms. Yamauchi’s son,” said United in
a statement obtained by Fox News. “As a result, her son’s seat
appeared to be not checked in, and we released his seat to
another customer and Ms. Yamauchi held her son for the flight.

"We deeply apologize to Ms. Yamauchi and her son for this
experience," the statement continued. "We are refunding their
tickets and providing compensation as a goodwill gesture. We are
also working with our employees to prevent this from happening
again.”

Yamuachi, however, doesn’t sound too keen on flying with United
anytime soon.

"It's worrisome,” said Yamuachi, according to KITV Everyone who
has helped me so far has contradicted each other. With their
suggestions, this needs to stop. United has made errors that
make national headlines … yet, it continues.”

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2017/0...lines-gives-2-
year-olds-seat-away-to-standby-passenger.html

 




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