After a weekend of brutal publicity over its refusal to grant a dying
Vietnam vet a $197 ticket refund because his doctor forbids him to fly,
Spirit Airlines issued has a simple response:
"No."
The terse, one-word retort from company spokeswoman Natalie Pinson
appears to have grounded any hope that Jerry Meekins, 76, of Clearwater,
Fla., might get his money back. Meekins bought the ticket to Atlantic
City last month so he could see his daughter before she had surgery of
her own. But when his esophageal cancer left his immune system too
ravaged for travel, all the airline offered him was another ticket.
"What are they going to do?" Meekins asked the Tampa Bay Times. "Fly my casket up to Atlantic City?"
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1 comment:
This airline should be ashamed of itself. This man put his life on the line for them and the rest of us & the airline doesn't see it fitting to refund his ticket price because he's dying from a disease? Only thing I can say is that people should boycot them, not give them any federal money (bailout) & watch them die. I believe it's called Karma.
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