Consumers are so spoiled, Pumpkins. They demand cheap flights and then they demand compensation for being bumped.
Back in the day of passes and ID75’s, if one of us got bumped we knew to respond with “thank you, mistress, can I have another?” Or else. A hint of a complaint and I'd be crossed off the list and have to spend the night hustling the canals of Amsterdam because the hotel was sick of me bumming comps. Who doesn’t remember doing that?
Young Gabor Lukacs has convinced the transportation agency to get Air Canada to increase the compensation for bumping lay people. Honestly, if you can’t stand the heat, don’t travel.
On the other hand, if one young fresh faced new immigrant math professor can change an airline, what could 20,000 old faced travel agents do? Have you ever thought of that?
