Terminalcoffee discussion

So the big travel news today is that Delta charged thirty returning soldiers for their luggage. Thanks for serving our country through that tour, that'll be $200 if you want to bring back the things you left with.

The smaller (and more limber) news is that we now need to protect our bags from thieving Polish contortionists.
http://news.travel.aol.com/2011/06/08...

I heard the luggage charge was somewhere around $2800 for many of the soldiers, which is a ridiculous amount to charge a civilian and downright despicable to expect of a returning soldier.

I feel like the words "polish contortionist" are a set-up for a bad joke.

I think it was a cumulative $2800 between the members of the group, but I might be wrong.

Sarah Pi wrote: "I think it was a cumulative $2800 between the members of the group, but I might be wrong."

My sources aren't good; all I saw was a ticker headline at the bottom of the screen on CNN. But any charge, whether it's 200 or 2000 is ridiculous.

$20 is too much to charge returning soldiers. No Delta for me in the future, tyvm.

Sarah Pi wrote: "So the big travel news today is that Delta charged thirty returning soldiers for their luggage. Thanks for serving our country through that tour, that'll be $200 if you want to bring back the thing..."

That is odd, since the soilder's orders (or, miliary orders in general) are ususally enough to cover their baggage and/or travel related fees. Or, at worst, they can file a travel voucher to be reimbursed for the money while using their gov't issued credit card. Either way, it is a high fee.

They're allowed four bags apparently, but there was some discrepancy in which Delta claimed they were only allowed three (or four in first class). It said that they may get reimbursed after the fact, but that doesn't change the fact that their homecoming is marred by having to shell out $200 on the spot.

Yeah, it was lame. I heard on the news that as soon as it happened, someone posted it to Youtube and Delta had changed their policy within one hour. So now soldiers are allowed four bags with no charges.