# Delta forces Ann Coulter to change her seat -- she's peeved **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 19, 2017, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delta-forces-ann-coulter-to-change-her-seat-shes-peeved/791648 "2017-07-19T13:15:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delta-forces-ann-coulter-to-change-her-seat-shes-peeved/791648/61 "2017-07-21T05:05:03Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > The “recent events” you mention represent a tiny percentage of problems with seat assignments. I must assume you don’t fly very often and your view is shaped by the media attention given to a few extraordinary occurrences. Your idea that complaining automatically results in being removed from the plane is frankly bizarre. If that occurred, far more flights would be delayed than are. I don’t have an idea that complaining would automatically result in being removed. That was an abbreviated version of this: > [@Doug\_K](#): > > Again, the airline acknowledged that it was, in fact, her seat, and that it was given to the other passenger by mistake. And assuming she didn’t say anything at the time (which we don’t know - the articles don’t say anything one way or the other) what do think would have happened if she had? They’d say “Oops, my bad. Let me put you back in the seat you were supposed to have?” No, they’d just do the same old smile and “Sorry, but you need to sit in THIS seat, ma’am” bit. And if she’d pressed the matter, she’d have been thrown off for being “disruptive”. Leaving her with the choice between sitting where they told her and complaining later, or missing her flight. > > If Delta doesn’t want to “look bad” they need to stop being bad. And stop this “reservations aren’t really reservations” crap. And again, we have no way of knowing if she did say something at the time. I suspect she may have, and was met with a faux polite refusal. It’s not the initial request that could get her thrown off, it’s if she pressed the matter after the refusal, which would have been painted as belligerent or disruptive - especially coming from her. I know Delta claims she didn’t say anything at the time, but the spokesperson was not there and has no way of knowing what conversation took place. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delta-forces-ann-coulter-to-change-her-seat-shes-peeved/791648/62 "2017-07-21T05:27:21Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > I don’t have an idea that complaining would automatically result in being removed. That was an abbreviated version of this: Even based on what you wrote before, your scenario is unrealistic. People simply don’t get thrown off flights very often. If she had escalated to highly disruptive behavior, she might have been removed, but that’s true in a restaurant or movie theater or any other business. > [@](#): > > And again, we have no way of knowing if she did say something at the time. I suspect she may have, and was met with a faux polite refusal. It’s not the initial request that could get her thrown off, it’s if she pressed the matter after the refusal, which would have been painted as belligerent or disruptive - especially coming from her. I know Delta claims she didn’t say anything at the time, but the spokesperson was not there and has no way of knowing what conversation took place. I’m much more inclined to believe Delta than her. She’s a pathological liar and troll. Her only account of the interaction claims the exchange was "Why are you taking me out of the extra room seat I specifically booked, @Delta?’ Flight attendant: "I don’t know” which certainly wasn’t the entire conversation. And even if she did receive a “faux polite refusal,” it was a pretty minor annoyance. Even if she was completely in the right, escalating to the point being disruptive wouldn’t have been appropriate. I have to ask, how often do you fly? Your posts seem to indicate that your view of how airlines treat complaints is based more on bad publicity over a small number of incidents rather than actual experience. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delta-forces-ann-coulter-to-change-her-seat-shes-peeved/791648/63 "2017-07-21T05:43:25Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I fly fairly often, and I’ve never had the airlines force me to take a seat other than the one I booked. It happened to me. About 15 years ago, I had booked an aisle seat for a long transatlantic flight. A few minutes before takeoff, a flight attendant brusquely told me to “move over” and gave my aisle seat to a late-boarding passenger. I was a little peeved, but I got over it. I had forgotten about it until I saw this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delta-forces-ann-coulter-to-change-her-seat-shes-peeved/791648/64 "2017-07-21T12:22:17Z")
My real dilemma by comparison for my real upcoming flight next month occurred to me as I was choosing seats last night. I noticed that I can buy an extra legroom seat for $X more. One of the seats showing available for that is a window seat in the row just behind the over wing exit row. On this particular plane the exit row does not have a window seat so the window seat in the row behind the exit row would really have a lot of extra legroom but apparently no place to stow a small carryon under the seat in front of me. To me this would be worth the extra cost and I would be willing to pay extra under the presumption I can actually get that particular window seat in the row behind the exit row. This is largely because I have been having a lot of back and leg pain and having that much extra space might make a substantial difference in my level of comfort. Other seats that the airline lumps together under the same extra legroom class for the same additional cost do not feature the same amount of leg room. Paying extra for those seats does not interest me as I do not think the lesser amount of additional space is sufficient. So, if I pay extra for the seat I want and don’t get it but am put in one of the other extra legroom seats do I have a legitimate complaint? Keep in mind I am not a well known person with thousands of twitter followers. IMHO I would have a legit complaint. Now I don’t have a legion of followers to tweet to, and don’t even have a Twitter or Facebook account. And my 13 year old Nokia brick cell phone doesn’t even have a camera to be able to take a photo of a passenger who was given “my” seat by the airline. So I couldn’t take my griping as far as Ann Coulter did. I wouldn’t even if I could. So by analogy, yes I think Coulter has a legitimate complaint. And it was reasonable for her to express her displeasure at the airline. But she took it way too far by dragging the other passenger into this and posting her photo. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delta-forces-ann-coulter-to-change-her-seat-shes-peeved/791648/65 "2017-07-21T12:22:59Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > That we don’t know. It’s entirely possible that she’s completely nuts. Wake up, sheeple! _There was no plane!_ ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delta-forces-ann-coulter-to-change-her-seat-shes-peeved/791648/66 "2017-07-21T12:27:16Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > But she didn’t complain to Delta at the time, or apparently do anything to get the situation fixed. Her outrage was entirely a performance for the public to attract attention to herself. It was fake. Apparently she tried to complain online at the time. She made the point of noting the Wi-Fi wasn’t working on the plane. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delta-forces-ann-coulter-to-change-her-seat-shes-peeved/791648/67 "2017-07-21T13:16:13Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > Delta screwed up, and then whined about a customer publically taking them to task for their screw up. Sure. Delta made an error and Coulter was allocated a seat different from the one she reserved and desired. Coulter instead sat in her desired seat, was asked to move to her ticketed seat (which is HER seat at that point, per the ticket agreement) and made a big fuss. Like I said, she’s the same as someone screaming in a McDonalds because her childlike ego thinks “I’ll throw a temper tantrum and make a public scene until I get my way” is the proper response to a minor inconvenience. Trying to press “Delta made an error” is pretty meaningless. Lots of people make errors. Companies make errors because they’re filled with people. Shit happens. This was a very tiny error. That doesn’t mean that you have to act like a raving three year old because Mommy said you can’t have the doll you saw on the shelf. > [@Doug\_K](#): > > Again, in view of other recent events, do you honestly think complaining at the time would have yielded any results other than getting her removed from the plane? Sure. Probably her $30 back and maybe a couple drink coupons. Which is perfectly adequate compensation for the “loss” she was taking. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delta-forces-ann-coulter-to-change-her-seat-shes-peeved/791648/68 "2017-07-21T14:11:23Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Even based on what you wrote before, your scenario is unrealistic. People simply don’t get thrown off flights very often. If she had escalated to highly disruptive behavior, she might have been removed, but that’s true in a restaurant or movie theater or any other business. > > I’m much more inclined to believe Delta than her. She’s a pathological liar and troll. Her only account of the interaction claims the exchange was "Why are you taking me out of the extra room seat I specifically booked, @Delta?’ Flight attendant: "I don’t know” which certainly wasn’t the entire conversation. So she didn’t say anything at the time, but there was certainly more to the non-existent conversation than she claimed? > [@](#): > > And even if she did receive a “faux polite refusal,” it was a pretty minor annoyance. Even if she was completely in the right, escalating to the point being disruptive wouldn’t have been appropriate. Delta accepted extra money from her in return for allowing her choose her seat. She was not allowed to use that seat. She was completely in the right, she was not disruptive. And yet Delta didn’t offer to refund her for the service she paid for but did not receive until after she complained publicly. > [@](#): > > I have to ask, how often do you fly? Your posts seem to indicate that your view of how airlines treat complaints is based more on bad publicity over a small number of incidents rather than actual experience. No you don’t, and no they don’t, because it’s irrelevant. We’re only talking about this one incident. I have said nothing about how rare or common similar incident are. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delta-forces-ann-coulter-to-change-her-seat-shes-peeved/791648/69 "2017-07-21T14:13:55Z")
Well. It’s certainly going to be difficult to get _this_ horse back in the barn. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delta-forces-ann-coulter-to-change-her-seat-shes-peeved/791648/70 "2017-07-21T14:47:58Z")
I only fly a few times per year, usually to a fabulous vacation destination, as I don’t travel for work. But I will say that flying is a major PITA these days, in large part because the airlines are simply not customer friendly. They routinely cancel flights, change flight times, change seat assignments, add layovers, you name it. It’s like a crap shoot. You give them your money and hope that when the departure day arrives, you’ll be on a flight that somewhat resembles what you originally booked. (And you can’t wait to book til the last minute, because airfares can change on a whim, too.) Case in Point: Just this week, Frontier notified me that they were changing my flight to SFO from a direct 5 hour travel time flight, arriving at 6pm, to a non-direct 10 hour travel time, ultimately arriving at midnight. So my choice was to drive 2.5 hours to my friend’s house at midnight (which, incidentally, is 3am my time) OR I could book a hotel room in SFO that night, adding several hundred bucks to my cost. Oh, and I had to change my rental car reservation, too. (I ended up cancelling and booking on Delta.) Last year, Delta changed my flight home from Maui to add in another layover in ATL, which added another 6 hours to my travel time. Another memorable time, even though I’d booked the flight and selected seats 10 months in advance, by the time we departed, NONE Of us were seated together, including my 2 kids. Thank goodness they were old enough to behave themselves for 11 hours. So, yes, I completely understand the frustration of flying. It’s gone from bad to really, really bad, as airlines do whatever they want to eke out more pesos. That being said, Ann Coulter is a ridiculous, hypocritical, overly-dramatic pimple on the face of America. And I just wish someone would pop her already. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delta-forces-ann-coulter-to-change-her-seat-shes-peeved/791648/71 "2017-07-21T14:54:18Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > She was completely in the right, she was not disruptive. She was disruptive when she made the decision to sit in her preferred seat rather than the one shown on her ticket, thus forcing the flight attendant to ask her to move, Coulter demanding to know WHY she had to move, etc. ---
**Author:** ![SmellMyWort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SmellMyWort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmellMyWort)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delta-forces-ann-coulter-to-change-her-seat-shes-peeved/791648/72 "2017-07-21T16:25:09Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > So she didn’t say anything at the time, but there was certainly more to the non-existent conversation than she claimed? > > Delta accepted extra money from her in return for allowing her choose her seat. She was not allowed to use that seat. She was completely in the right, she was not disruptive. And yet Delta didn’t offer to refund her for the service she paid for but did not receive until after she complained publicly. > > No you don’t, and no they don’t, because it’s irrelevant. We’re only talking about this one incident. I have said nothing about how rare or common similar incident are. You say you fly often yet you don’t seem to realize how lame and uninformed your argument is, and you conveniently ignored my earlier post pointing out that it doesn’t appear the Coulter bothered to use Delta’s proper complaint channel. Most civilized people, when dealt an unsatisfactory experience, will give the company a chance to make it right before spewing their bile on social media. And how is “Delta” supposed to know that she’s unhappy enough about a trivial mistake that she even wants some sort of compensation? She was given an equivalent seat, one that she’d selected in the first place. She may have complained to the flight attendant but is he/she supposed to pull $30 out of his/her pocket and give it to her on the spot? Reshuffle everyone around because of her demands while they’re trying to board and take off on time? Did Coulter even bother trying to see if the other people in her row would mind switching before taking their picture to post on Twitter? I’m curious, **Doug K.** and **doorhinge** , what you would have done in her situation? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delta-forces-ann-coulter-to-change-her-seat-shes-peeved/791648/73 "2017-07-21T16:58:48Z")
> [@SmellMyWort](#): > > She was given an equivalent seat, one that she’d selected in the first place. She may have complained to the flight attendant but is he/she supposed to pull $30 out of his/her pocket and give it to her on the spot? Reshuffle everyone around because of her demands while they’re trying to board and take off on time? She bitched about the flight attendant asking her to move and how, when she demanded to know why, was told “I don’t know” (complete with photo of said attendant because we all needed to know who this person was who dared cross Coulter). Bitch, the reason why is simple: Because your ass isn’t in the seat designated on your ticket. No, she doesn’t know WHY your ticket isn’t the seat you wanted but that’s not really her job. What she does know is that your ass is in a seat that someone else has a ticket for so instead of throwing a tantrum on the internet, go move it to where it belongs. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delta-forces-ann-coulter-to-change-her-seat-shes-peeved/791648/74 "2017-07-21T18:07:28Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > On the basis of my own personal experience, absolutely. When I’ve pointed out a problem with my seat assignment, the flight attendants have always been helpful and tried to accommodate me. > > The “recent events” you mention represent a tiny percentage of problems with seat assignments. I must assume you don’t fly very often and your view is shaped by the media attention given to a few extraordinary occurrences. Your idea that complaining automatically results in being removed from the plane is frankly bizarre. If that occurred, far more flights would be delayed than are. > > Flying coach certainly has its annoyances but being removed from the plane for complaining isn’t one of them. I’ve only ever seen one party of passengers removed from a flight (in many hundreds of flights) and they were being total assholes. The rest of the passengers cheered when they were booted. I probably would’ve found a flight attendant and said “I reserved an aisle seat because I tend to get up frequently and I don’t like to disrupt the other people in the row”. If that didn’t work I’d be fine with it because then I wouldnt feel at all bad about climbing over the other people in the aisle every twenty minutes. But I’d almost feel obligated to mention it if they moved me to a window. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delta-forces-ann-coulter-to-change-her-seat-shes-peeved/791648/75 "2017-07-21T19:39:46Z")
> [@SmellMyWort](#): > > And how is “Delta” supposed to know that she’s unhappy enough about a trivial mistake that she even wants some sort of compensation? She was given an equivalent seat, one that she’d selected in the first place. She may have complained to the flight attendant but is he/she supposed to pull $30 out of his/her pocket and give it to her on the spot? Reshuffle everyone around because of her demands while they’re trying to board and take off on time? Did Coulter even bother trying to see if the other people in her row would mind switching before taking their picture to post on Twitter? > > I’m curious, **Doug K.** and **doorhinge** , what you would have done in her situation? The question isn’t what one of us would have done. It’s what Delta **should** have done. What the flight attendant should have done instead of just saying “I don’t know” would have been to call someone who could check it out and ask Ann to be patient while someone sorted it out. If her reservation was put in the system correctly (and it apparently was, because the airline was able to verify that she did in fact pay extra for a specific seat) it shouldn’t have taken more than a few minutes for someone else to verify it while the plane was still being boarded. At that point, her complaint would be in the system, which is how Delta could know a passenger was unhappy. And where do you get “reshuffle everyone around”? All they would have had to do to correct the mistake was switch her with the person they’d put in the seat she reserved. And if that turned out to not be possible for some reason she should have been offered the refund by the time they got to the destination. For what it’s worth, before taking it to social media I would have written a letter to Delta expressing my dissatisfaction not just for the incident, but also for the fact that I had to write that letter, pointing out that the flight attendant should have sent my initial complaint up the chain. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delta-forces-ann-coulter-to-change-her-seat-shes-peeved/791648/76 "2017-07-21T21:35:14Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > The question isn’t what one of us would have done. It’s what Delta **should** have done. What the flight attendant should have done instead of just saying “I don’t know” would have been to call someone who could check it out and ask Ann to be patient while someone sorted it out. I disagree. The FA’s have no time to check on a random passenger’s complaint about their seating assignment. They are too busy trying to get people’s 75 pound “carry on” bags into the upper bins, telling people to clear the aisles for boarding, and demanding people turn off their laptops. Any complaints should have been handled at the gate. And that goes for me, when my family of 4 ended up being scattered randomly on the plane even though I’d reserved our seats 10 months in advance. > [@](#): > > If her reservation was put in the system correctly (and it apparently was, because the airline was able to verify that she did in fact pay extra for a specific seat) it shouldn’t have taken more than a few minutes for someone else to verify it while the plane was still being boarded. Her boarding pass said something different than what she reserved. Her complaint should have been lodged with corporate, at the boarding gate, or after the fact via email. The FA was not at fault here. > [@](#): > > All they would have had to do to correct the mistake was switch her with the person they’d put in the seat she reserved. That person was under the impression that it was the seat SHE reserved, because it was printed on her boarding pass. So now what do you do? > [@](#): > > And if that turned out to not be possible for some reason she should have been offered the refund by the time they got to the destination. Technically, she was still in a seat that costs another $30 to reserve. That’s how the system works now. Each seat is assigned a value from $0 on up. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delta-forces-ann-coulter-to-change-her-seat-shes-peeved/791648/77 "2017-07-21T21:37:55Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > Again, in view of other recent events, do you honestly think complaining at the time would have yielded any results other than getting her removed from the plane? Sure. Of course, the right time to complain was when she got her boarding pass, and it had the wrong seat on it. She could probably have gotten out all sorted out. Instead, she ignored the seat assignment, and sat in a seat assigned to somebody else. Of course the flight attendant will ask her to move to her assigned seat. The flight attendant is tasked with getting everyone seated so the flight can take off safely and on time. Even then, if she’d complained politely, the attendant might have been able to get her a window seat. But then there’s no good way to do so. Fyi, last time delta asked me to move, I objected to the first seat they offered, then they offered me a better one (for me) and they ALSO refunded my “more space” fee, despite my getting the more space. They didn’t tell me they would refund it. I just got a credit on my credit card from them. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delta-forces-ann-coulter-to-change-her-seat-shes-peeved/791648/78 "2017-07-21T22:20:38Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Grown up people can handle being “pissed off” without acting like temper tantrum throwing children. Ah, but Coulter is a Republican, and our President is…? Personally, I think Ann Coulter is hot in a “Skeletor wears a blonde woman’s skin” kinda way. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2017, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delta-forces-ann-coulter-to-change-her-seat-shes-peeved/791648/79 "2017-07-22T00:02:16Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > Again, the airline acknowledged that it was, in fact, her seat, and that it was given to the other passenger by mistake. Why quote my post if you aren’t going to read it? I specifically explained how they did not acknowledge it was “her seat.” She doesn’t own the seat. She just got a seat assignment. And her assignment was to a different seat than the one she sat in. The lady who had an assignment to that seat has JUST AS MUCH A CLAIM to call it her seat as Coulter does. Delta has not made themselves look bad at all. They dealt with it perfectly. They hear about the complaint, so they give her exactly what every other person would have gotten if they’d complained, and nothing more. Ann Coulter looks bad, because she decided to whine on Twitter rather than actually act like an adult and fix her ticket before she got on the plane, and then continue to pretend to be persecuted after restitution was made. I would be much more likely to fly Delta after this incident. They didn’t knuckle under for an entitled asshole who decided to whine on Twitter and publicly shame the person who sat in the seat WHO DID NOTHING WRONG. She was too much of a child to deal with the problem like an adult, and so they didn’t give the asshole what they want. Coulter made herself look like a horrible person, and yet people still want to twist to make her out to be some innocent victim. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2017, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delta-forces-ann-coulter-to-change-her-seat-shes-peeved/791648/80 "2017-07-22T00:27:33Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Why quote my post if you aren’t going to read it? I specifically explained how they did not acknowledge it was “her seat.” She doesn’t own the seat. She just got a seat assignment. > > And her assignment was to a different seat than the one she sat in. The lady who had an assignment to that seat has JUST AS MUCH A CLAIM to call it her seat as Coulter does. I read your “explanation’”. The problem is, Delta said otherwise. Or do you think they were lying when they said [this](http://news.delta.com/delta-s-response-political-analyst-ann-coulter-s-public-attack-airline-s-employees-customers)? > [@Delta](#): > > We are sorry that the customer did not receive the seat she reserved and paid for. And saying it was her seat doesn’t mean she owns it. It means she paid extra for the use of that specific seat on that specific flight. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delta-forces-ann-coulter-to-change-her-seat-shes-peeved/791648.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delta-forces-ann-coulter-to-change-her-seat-shes-peeved/791648.md?page=5)