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Re: JD update
[Re: SXMWendell]
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03/17/2020 08:20 PM
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He was on the Delta flight to Atlanta today. Was just going to check, flight has probably landed in Atlanta by now.
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Re: JD update
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03/17/2020 09:02 PM
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Re: JD update
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03/17/2020 09:29 PM
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Thanks. In ATL now.
Left SXM an hour late due to Delta gate agents in ATL allowing 3 US citizens to board and travel to SXM. The incoming US citizen ban started TODAY! 3 on the ATL flight and 1 on the JFK flight today. Only 5 inbound passengers from ATL and 3 should not have been allowed to board. Tell me that is not incompetence.
I will make a separate post tomorrow and relay some information the flight attendant gave me.
J.D.
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Re: JD update
[Re: ruralcarrier]
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03/17/2020 09:33 PM
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Jd wasn’t that fun sitting there? Then they had to find their luggage before we could depart.
Last edited by Bdallas; 03/17/2020 09:38 PM.
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Re: JD update
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03/17/2020 09:34 PM
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And one got seated in Delta Comfort and got free drinks!
The flight attendant I talked to said there would be a very serious discussion with the ATL gate agent who boarded them.
Last edited by ruralcarrier; 03/17/2020 09:40 PM.
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Re: JD update
[Re: SXMWendell]
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03/17/2020 09:41 PM
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Yep. Pretty amazing but it is proven time and time again, YOU CAN NOT FIX STUPID!
I will say, the pilot did an excellent job making up some time. He taxied the entire length of the SXM runway to take off over MAHO and it was pretty fast.. Taxi to the gate in ATL was pretty fast as well.
Last edited by ruralcarrier; 03/17/2020 09:45 PM.
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Re: JD update
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03/18/2020 06:49 AM
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Got into DAY about 15 minutes early last night on a MD-88 with less than 30people on board. Kudos to Delta for flying that small number of people.
Thanks everyone for your concern.
I have some banking an other things (groceries if I can find any) to tend to this morning and then I will make a separate post regarding the Delta situation that should not have happened.
J.D.
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Re: JD update
[Re: ruralcarrier]
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03/18/2020 06:51 AM
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Re: JD update
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03/18/2020 07:30 AM
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Good deal. Even you couldn't smooze her! Another possible tip, even though I had the same boarding passes you have, the counter agent still insisted on printing new ones or suggested I should have used a kiosk. I would still feel better having checked in online as you have. The line moved pretty slow yesterday but it was due to them checking in the JFK flight first. Once that was done, it was pretty smooth. I do not think there is a JFK flight today. I was just going to message you and see what was going on. Good luck.
J.D.
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Re: JD update
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03/18/2020 09:31 AM
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JD-Glad you were able to get home OK. As you said, glad they flew the plane into Dayton with so few people onboard. Amazing, what a moron gate agent in Atlanta, and who KNOWS what those people were thinking, flying down? My GUESS is that they perhaps own property in SXM and somehow thought the ban didn't apply to them???
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Re: JD update
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03/18/2020 10:50 AM
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Thanks again everyone and for the multiple offers I had if I did not get out. Thank you.
J.D.
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