Passengers booked on a Delta Connection flight operated by SkyWest claim that the flight was delayed substantially so that the CEO’s daughter wouldn’t miss the flight. While the airline mostly denies the accusations, I don’t find the response to be terribly reassuring.
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This reminds of that tradwife influencer profile from a year or two ago that revealed how the couple's relationship began when the guy had his airline executive daddy mess around with passenger records and booking info so the guy could sit next to his romantic target and hit on her during the flight.
I remember seeing several OMAAT commenters defend that obviously inappropriate behavior. I wonder what those same people think about this?
If your country is run on “status” this is kind of an expected result. Not sure the CEO is to blame for this, the country is built on big corporations. Don’t want the flight to be held by a CEO’s daughter? then introduce more equality, which also means a large part of the population has to give up some of their wealth.
Would you Ben, give away near 50% of your income to the government (as many Europeans do)? If not, then holding a flight for a CEO’s daughter is part of the trade-off for your wealth.
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Delta is probably guilty of doing the same stuff themselves. If do I could see why they don’t want to criticize SkyWest.
Come along now Tim, stir up the proletariat with your words of wisdom. One can only imagine what you make of Micky Mouse MBA management as opposed to shop floor ground up experience?
People in the USA easily give away 50% of their income to the government. Are up federal taxes, state taxes and property taxes ( people who rent even end up paying that with thru their rent ) can easily hit 50%. Plus I did not even add in that a lot of European countries included heath care in that 50% and in the USA people pay for that outside their taxes with insurance. The USA is not a lower tax country compared to a lot of European counties.
Fascinating how Ben went with “SkyWest” (not Delta), which is technically accurate, but, c’mon the livery clearly shows Delta and most laypersons would think of it as Delta.
Meanwhile, Gary went with “Passengers Say Delta Regional Flight Was Held For CEO’s Daughter — Upgraded Passenger Sent Back to Coach” Hmm.
So, was it Ed’s daughter? No. It was the daughter of SkyWest CEO Russell Childs. So… Childs’s child. Hmmm.
Could that be the real 1990 posting today or perhaps it is 1990Bot the onanist?
There you are again 1990, the real one or might it be the other 1990Bot, you know the one, the one who looks like a t*rd with a vajazzle?
Jeez! Everyone chill out! It was the last flight of the night. I believe all of us would have wanted the flight delayed to get us to where we wanted to be.
there could've been up to 70 other people on that flight, all of whom lost an hour of their lives. The daughter could've easily just been reaccommodated on a flight the next morning, like they would have done for literally any other person. it's disrespectful and a waste of everyone's time.
Ben , this is no problem at all . I myself benefited from Delta holding a trans-con L-1011 flight from Atlanta for about an hour , so I could connect from a late Atlantic Southeast Airline (ASA). Being that I am disabled , I was very grateful , and the polite passengers welcomed me . The crew had advised the passengers that a late-flight passenger would connect . No one complained .
The CEO was protecting his vulnerable daughter ; nothing to see here .
These days the other passengers sound selfish .
Couldn’t the CEO just charter a private flight for his daughter? Or does he lack familiarity with such possibilities in the air travel industry?
What do I make of this story, you ask? I think it belongs on Gary’s blog, not OMAAT.
Using SkyWest is the better term.
Because some ignorant dumb Brit wouldn't understand that SkyWest operates for AA AS DL UA.
Like other relics of pre deregulation, DOT needs to modernize this mainline-regional relationship model.
The nepo hypocrisy aside.
I was always voicing this to airlines.
They should make it policy to hold the last flight up to 90 for misconnect.
People taking the last flight should be aware and prepared to be delayed.
It's not so much that the last flight of the day was held for several late arriving passengers, it's that dozens of people were made to wait because the CEO personally intervened for his daughter. It's the feeling of those with all the money and power will do anything not to be inconvenienced, while the rest of us are made to accommodate them. I would be pissed too.
An L-1011.
Something tells me this was a little while back.
Times have changed. I would be all for an airline holding an aircraft for a truly vulnerable passenger.
The daughter of an airline CEO my dear, is not. Probably the LEAST vulnerable person on that entire plane. With daddy as the CEO of an airline I think she would have alternatives.
“Some ignorant dumb Brit”, might not care about the platitudes of one who has nothing of value or intellect to add to any topic of conversation. The simple minded trolls of this website have chosen to avoid being belittled, whilst some too thick to acknowledge their inadequacies continue regardless.
Is that what your Micky Mouse MBA taught you to behave like EskimoBot? No, you probably purchased a knockoff certificate from some local ghetto gezzer, yes?
Ben, must love your clicks bro!
Jim Narrows, clearly part of the Epstein class. Supports CEOs. Hates women and those serving him. Hates the TSA and doesn’t want them to get paid. It all adds up.
I think it’s a really interesting story about big airline business and airline customer service. As you asked!
Few people in Europe give up 50pc of their income (in the UK for most people it’s in the twenties per cent) and you get free healthcare included. Perhaps don’t peddle this myth that the US is a low tax nation especially with healthcare being extra.
The crowned prince of the nepo hypocrites, is that what EskimoBot is aiming for? No! One thing is for sure, it is not at the top of the Class Inequality Iceberg. Even the bottom rung is well beyond its capabilities.
I know “The knives are out”. However, the nepo hypocrite might think that street encounters are to its own advantage, but little does it know about the opposition …. 🙂
FMBWI , "dozens of people were made to wait" .
They have already been waiting for security , waiting to check in , waiting to board , and waiting to taxi , take off , flight duration , waiting for baggage , waiting for a ride home , and waiting to go to sleep . That's life in the big city .
Assuming for the sake of argument the passenger was the daughter of the SkyWest CEO. In that case it is all but certain she was traveling as a non-rev. It may have been on a positive space pass, but nevertheless she was a non-rev. So Skywest held the flight for a non-rev. That’s bad all by itself. But then to bump who I am assuming was a revenue passenger from his/her upgraded seat to accompany the entitled princess’s little ass is beyond reproach. Note to SkyWest leadership: traveling as a non-rev, regardless of your rank or status with the company, is a privilege and not an entitlement.
I’m sure you’d say the exact same thing if you were one of the affected passengers.
bunch of cry babies. 1. Skywest routinely holds the last flight of the day to these smaller airports for passengers. 2. Skywest is private, and the airline can hold for whomever they want, so yeah, it was the CEO's kid, get over it.
Pathetic and absolutely thoughtless. Delta—do the right thing and investigate this unforgivable and intolerable incident and let the public know the outcome. Or lose loyal Delta patrons to United.
SkyWest is fulfilling a contract for Delta in this case. I am surprised Delta allows SkyWest such nepotistic control of this corner of their operation. I bet some direct conversations have been held between the parties.
Your own keyword is PASSENGER(S) such as a late flight with many connecting passengers. Not one offspring of a ceo who couldn't get to the airport on time. What happened, the limo or horse drawn chariot was late? Many restaurants are also privately owned. Doesn't mean when their daughter shows up they are going to go over to your table where you are about to start your meal and spit on your food to make you leave because according to you they can do whatever they want because the business is privately owned.
If I recall correctly, I think Delta had something similar when Leo Mullin was the CEO. Passengers were bumped so that the executive cronies' families could "non-rev" in first class. Flights were held up, legitimate passengers missed connection flights, etc. That might have been one more nail in the coffin for his tenure and for those he surrounded himself with.
No, SkyWest is NOT a private company. It is a publicly held company (SKYW) and answers to the investors.
Part of me expected for the airline to say they held the plane for a high-mileage pax without noting high, non-rev miles. Anyway, holding for a daughter is OK only if they'd do the same for any of us.
Skywest is a public company porkchop and as a result, by law, has to answer to its investors. As such holding a plane for a non revenue passenger is, in essence, fraud. Minor though it may seem.
How is this any different than the Graziano alum/UA chairman &CEO and four sons transferring from a UA/Uexpress jet, getting off, and then *GETTING BACK ON*, I believe on the ramp/tarmac??