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Watch: Family Refuses to Give up Toddler’s Seat on Delta Flight and Are Threatened With Jail and Kids Being Taken

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Last week, we wondered if major airlines were in some kind of twisted competition to see which could treat passengers the worst.

And, yesterday we reported that Delta – the airline that recently kicked a man off a flight because he dared to get up to use the restroom – was bumped up a notch in the rankings because an employee was caught on camera smacking a phone out of a kid’s hand.

United Airlines probably is still in first place for the Dragging and Dropping of Dr. David Dao, a 69 year-old man who was “forcibly removed” from flight 3411 a few weeks ago.

But Delta is a close runner-up for an incident that occurred on one of their flights last month.

Brian and Brittany Schear, of Huntington Beach, California, were on a red-eye flight on April 23 from Maui to Los Angeles when they were told that they had to give one of their seats to another passenger.

The ordeal began when the airline asked the family to give up a seat they had purchased that was occupied by their 2-year-old, Grayson. The airline wanted the family to carry him on their laps for the flight instead.

After the Schears tried to refuse – explaining repeatedly (and calmly) that they purchased that seat and needed to use it – the airline staff made an outrageous threat:

Despite feeling they were in the right, that threat was terrifying, Brittany Schear told ABC7 News:

The Schears filmed their encounter with airline staff and shared it on YouTube.

In the video, you can hear Brian saying, “You’re saying you’re gonna give that away to someone else when I paid for that seat? That’s not right.”

The airline staff tells him they need the seat because the flight is overbooked and the original passenger whose name was on the seat isn’t using it.

You also can hear Schear explain that initially bought the seat for his 18-year-old son, but sent the teen home early on another flight so that his toddler would have a seat on the plane.

Schear says Grayson flew in his own seat on the original flight out to Hawaii without a problem. He says Delta knew he was planning to use the seat for his younger son when they boarded their return flight.

“It’s a red-eye. He won’t sleep unless he’s in his car seat. So, otherwise, he’d be sitting in my wife’s lap, crawling all over the place, and it’s not safe.”

Flights from Maui to Los Angeles take approximately 5 hours.

Later in the video, you can hear an agent telling Schear that according to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations, his 2-year-old son could not occupy a seat during the flight and would need to sit in an adult’s lap.

Schear explained that his toddler had been strapped into a car seat in his own seat on the destination flight – on the same airline – but the agent ignored that inconvenient piece of information.

Let’s take a look at what the FAA actually says about flying with young children:

Interesting.

Here’s what Delta’s website says about flying with young children:

Looks like those Delta employees were either lying to the Schears, or they are entirely ignorant of both FAA and their own employer’s rules. Either option is disturbing.

It is outrageous that Delta wanted to kick a toddler out of the safest place for him to be on that plane because the AIRLINE OVERBOOKED and wanted to give the young child’s seat to someone else.

Delta released a statement to ABC7 News:

The airline also told ABC7 that the family was not kicked off the plane because the flight was overbooked, but did not elaborate or offer any other details as to why the family was booted from the flight.

How convenient.

Eventually, Schear did agree to hold Grayson in his lap so the family could remain on the flight, but an agent told him it was too late, saying his family would either have to exit the plane or the crew would have to deplane all of the passengers.

“So we’re getting off this plane no matter what now?” Schear asked.

“I told you guys at the beginning you had two options and now it’s come too far,” an agent responded.

“I have two infants,” he said, “and nowhere to stay. There’s no more flights. What are we supposed to do — sleep in the airport?”

“At this point, you guys are on your own,” she said.

So, around midnight, the Schears ended being kicked off their flight, and were left having to search for a hotel room and pay $2,000 for another flight the next day, on United.

Delta reached out to the Schears yesterday to gather more information – after the family posted the video showing their ordeal on YouTube and Facebook.

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    • GOLOC

      Well just like the Airlines, it’s OK, We can do what ever we want,
      Huge Revelations Made And MSM Is Hiding Them – DNC Argues In Court They Have The Right To Rig Election

    • Pink Slime

      Flying is just too convenient (beats walking) combined with hours and hours just waiting to get groped and the airlines got you by the balls. It’s pretty hard to give up your seat after that.

      You almost want to go 10 rounds. :roll:

    • Just me

      After the last grope/pat down I will NEVER fly a commercial flight again.

    • Black Humor

      Airplane passengers obviously are in need of 2nd amendment rights and strict ”stand your ground legislation”. And dont get me this ”dangerous to shoot in planes” talk. Guns are suppose to be dangerous when handled properly, that is why they are considered weapons! :lol:

    • Josie

      Sue, sue, sue the hell out of this airline. That’s what you call biting the hand that feeds you. These airlines are so arrogant, they could less about the passenger just money, money, money…

    • Knarlydawg

      STOP FLYING !! I believe the small print in your purchase contract with the airline (buying a ticket), gives them the right to do just about anything they want to do and you agree when you purchase the tickets. Don’t like the terms…..don’t contract their services…..it’s real simple.

    • dennisR8

      #Never Delta until the end of time. Over booking with modern computers? The act of incompetent people

    • 2QIK4U

      :shock:

    • freedomringsforall

      He says he paid for the seat but the airlines knows the name does not match the ticket.
      So however he acquired the seat he did it inappropriately.

      That alone should get him kicked off the airplane.

      Everyone is crying crocodile tears for this scamming family.

      If a terrorist did this and the airline let the terrorist fly regardless of the terrorist’s name not matching the ticket and blew up the plane all the same morons crying the crocodile tears today would be screaming sue the airline should be sued because they did not follow proper procedure.

    • jdpent01

      jdp…No the rule should be if you paid for any seat its yours, unless you relent and give it up on a voluntary basis.

    • jdpent01

      jdp…if any big shots can’t manage their travel time right, they should have no ability to bump anyone else, Airlines should not over book flights.

    • Student of Life

      Best defense for this kind of BS is to know what the regulations require.

      According to those regulations, each person on a flight must have an individual seat and seat belt during takeoff and landing except that a child UNDER 2 years of age MAY be held by an adult if the parents choose not to purchase a separate seat. A child who has passed his or her second birthday MUST have a separate seat. This is according to general flight rules, FAR 91.107, applicable to all flights.

      If the child was 2 years old and the airline was saying he had to be held by an adult instead of having his own seat, they were violating regulations that are basic knowledge for all aviation personnel who work in passenger-carrying operations.

    • Pat

      Ha ! The video has been removed from Youtube! Guess they settled?

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