{"id":25731,"date":"2010-07-10T23:06:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T23:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/07\/10\/warning-delta-airline-may-lie\/"},"modified":"2010-07-10T23:06:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T23:06:01","slug":"warning-delta-airline-may-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/10\/warning-delta-airline-may-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning: Delta Airline May Lie to You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I injured my knee last February, it became apparent that I would not be able to fly to my BIL&#8217;s wedding in DC.  So&#8230;..<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230; we called Delta Airline and asked if it was possible to get the ticket refunded or something. This was many weeks before the wedding itself.<\/p>\n<p>A Delta employee, over the phone, assured us that there would be no problem at all.  Just get one of those &#8220;you can&#8217;t fly&#8221; notes from the doctor, and bring it to the terminal  on the day of the flight.  A voucher would be issued.<\/p>\n<p>So I got the note from the doctor, and Amanda brought it to the terminal on the day of the flight.<\/p>\n<p>The people at the terminal said that they don&#8217;t issue the vouchers, but no problem, just call the airline after the trip and we&#8217;d get a voucher.<\/p>\n<p>So  we did.<\/p>\n<p>And we did that again.<\/p>\n<p>And again.<\/p>\n<p>The injury was in February.   The flight would have been in March.  It is now July.  And, it is starting to look like we are not going to get that refund or voucher.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to use that to visit my elderly mother in September.  It is simply not possible for the four of us to buy tickets for that trip. I wonder which one of us is not going to go?<\/p>\n<p>Delta Airlines. So far, you are worse that Northwest.  I didn&#8217;t think that was possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I injured my knee last February, it became apparent that I would not be able to fly to my BIL&#8217;s wedding in DC. So&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4549,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6H1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}