{"id":23780,"date":"2011-06-08T07:48:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T11:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23780"},"modified":"2011-06-08T15:48:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T19:48:29","slug":"delta-airlines-welcomes-troops-home-with-200-surcharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23780","title":{"rendered":"Delta Airlines welcomes troops home with $200 surcharge (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young staff sergeant made this video during his flight on Delta Airlines after they charged his unit $200 a piece to cover their fourth bag of luggage which was authorized on their travel orders upon their return from Afghanistan. The soldier in the video claims his fourth bag was his M4 carbine with a grenade launcher &#8211; something he really couldn&#8217;t leave behind if he didn&#8217;t have the $200 out-of-pocket to pay Delta for their arbitrary charge;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_borufk9RTc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll admit that i have a real hard-on for Delta Airlines anyway. They arbitrarily decided that they wouldn&#8217;t allow duty-free liquor on a flight from Panama one year which screwed up my supply of Panama&#8217;s Abuelo rum for an entire year. A stewardess on the same flight told me she had been allowed to bring liquor on the trip &#8211; so I&#8217;ve decided to boycott them. This just reinforces my boycott.<\/p>\n<p>At their blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.delta.com\/2011\/06\/07\/military-travel-baggage-policies-our-thoughts\/\">Under The Wing<\/a>, Delta writes;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the case of today\u2019s situation, we would like to publicly apologize to those service men and women for any miscommunication regarding our current policies as well as any inconvenience we may have caused. We are currently looking further into the situation, and will be reaching out to each of them personally to address their concerns and work to correct any issues they have faced.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, if they hadn&#8217;t made a stink, I doubt Delta would have done much of anything for these troops.<\/p>\n<p>You can file a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delta.com\/emailus\/servlet\/EmailUs?cmd=go\">complaint or comment at this webform<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to ROS and Lou West for the video.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Jeff Schogol sends a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/afghanistan\/delta-changes-bag-policy-after-public-outcry-over-charging-soldiers-1.146040\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> describing Delta&#8217;s complete capitulation to the power of the internet;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By Wednesday afternoon, although Delta had been following the terms of its contract with the government, the airline decided to amend its policy. Soldiers traveling in coach will now be allowed to check four bags free instead of three, the airline said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, what about that year I went without my Abuelo Rum, Delta?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young staff sergeant made this video during his flight on Delta Airlines after they charged &hellip; <a title=\"Delta Airlines welcomes troops home with $200 surcharge (Updated)\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23780\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Delta Airlines welcomes troops home with $200 surcharge (Updated)<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shitbags","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}