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A pair of sisters found themselves shut out from their flight between Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and San Francisco International Airport (SFO) when they went to Starbucks and missed the boarding for their flight. The two began shouting and caused a scene as they claimed that the gate agent was racist and that it was discrimination that caused them to miss their flight.
“You can’t deny me from boarding the plane, that’s racist!”
byu/upstandingelf indelta
The urge for coffee is strong and I am a Starbucks addict, but as Gary from View from the Wing first reported, I would not sacrifice being able to board for a caffeine fix. Delta flight DL2267 was scheduled to depart at 12:09 PM. The women arrived at 11:51 AM and were told that the flight was closed. This means that the flight closed three minutes ahead of schedule (18 minutes versus 15 minutes before). While these passengers have a point (technically), they should shift their energy to getting rebooked as once the paperwork is done and the door is closed there is little chance of making a flight.
Anthony’s Take: This seems like a miscalculation of time versus any type of racism. Hopefully, they got rebooked on one of Delta’s other daily flights and the situation was put to bed. I always get to the gate early as my nerves can’t take cutting it too close.
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Silly ladies played their cards incorrectly. Screaming “Anti semite” these gets the door opened immediately given the blind allegiance everyone has for Israel these days.
Well – the three minutes technically is in their favor. However, doors close means plane goes with those on board. The agents likely thought they were not going and 3 minutes before the 15 minute cut off is unnecessarily close. Do they not realize that the plane is departing and arriving into Akron out of two very busy airports and those three minutes could have resulted in a substantial departure block. Their coffee fix maybe delaying the allotted takeoff 30+ minutes. I am sure the captain had a push back window with an actual approved departure of 30 minutes or so. In this day of crowed skies and airspace- I’m thinking the capitán didn’t want to potentially delay arrival because two ignorant travelers felt their Java was more important than an on time or early arrival in San Francisco vs possibly delayed in a traffic or ground hold. Bet the other 150+ pax happiness made up for their race claims. How would they know they were black when they shut the door if they were at Starbucks. Please, people . Use your commonsense.
Well – the three minutes technically is in their favor. However, doors close means plane goes with those on board. The agents likely thought they were not going and 3 minutes before the 15 minute cut off is unnecessarily close. Do they not realize that the plane is departing and arriving into Akron out of two very busy airports and those three minutes could have resulted in a substantial departure block. Their coffee fix maybe delaying the allotted takeoff 30+ minutes. I am sure the captain had a push back window with an actual approved departure of 30 minutes or so. In this day of crowed skies and airspace- I’m thinking the capitán didn’t want to potentially delay arrival because two ignorant travelers felt their Java was more important than an on time or early arrival in San Francisco vs possibly delayed in a traffic or ground hold. Bet the other 150+ pax happiness made up for their race claims. How would they know they were black when they shut the door if they were at Starbucks. Please, people . Use your commonsense.