1(877)FLYERS6 - Stranded Holiday Traveler Help Line
If you're stranded or heavily delayed at the airport this holiday season, you may want to have 1(877)FLYERS6 saved in your cellphone contacts. That's a special free flyer hotline set up by the Coalition for an Airline Passengers' Bill of Rights. They offer a variety of services, like emailing your family or business associates and let them know where you are, offering real-time weather and flight status information, and let you know about hotel or rental options, as well as help you deal with refund situations. If you're stuck on the tarmac and not being let off the plane, they will pass the info on and try to get media out to the airport.
Who's Been Naughty and Nice With the Airlines [Coalition for an Airline Passengers' Bill of Rights via Rick Seaney]
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@m0unds: Agreed, but they likely wouldn't make the effort without asking how long they have been stranded, how many times the United flight attendants have slapped them across the face, etc.
Can you imagine the coalition's central command center?
"We are now at DEFCON 3. American Airlines Flight 447 has been sitting at the DFW tarmac for 4 hours with 187 passengers stranded. Notify the media and get General Arpey on the line!"
Does the hotline help deal with over-zealous TSA rent-a-cops that enjoy pissing off travelers?
It's a neat idea, but I can totally imagine the "contacting the media because you're sitting on the tarmac" thing being abused by passengers..