‘They held up an entire flight’: Entitled family causes massive line at airport as they demand to check in 16 bags, leading to a dispute when the flight gets delayed

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Oct 4, 2024 7:00 AM EDT

As much as we all look forward to getting on a plane and going on vacation, no one likes the first part of the journey to their destination—the airport lines. Not one person enjoys arriving at the airport two hours (at least) before their flight and moving from one line to another until they actually board their flight.

It is even more annoying when there is some holdup and you end up standing in one line forever, which is what happened to the passenger in this story. They had to wait for around an hour to check in their bags, all because of one entitled family who demanded to check in 16 bags. That family ended up not only creating a huge line, but actually delaying the flight since the airline needed more time to check everybody in after them. Then, they continued to cause a commotion on the flight itself when they were not all seated together.

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    "The flight had to be delayed because of them" 6
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    Entitled family delays a flight and cries about it.
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    I was recently flying cross country Maryland to Seattle. The flight was scheduled to depart at 700. I arrived at the airport around 5am. I expected to check in my bag,
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    clear security and get some breakfast before flying. That plan didn't work. When I arrived the airline had a line of 15 to 20 people waiting to check their bags but figured I'd still be fine.
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    What I didn't account for was the family at the front of the line that was checking 16 bags. The airline I was flying only runs 4 flights a day from this particular
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    airport and therefore only had 2 people working at the check in counter. The family with 16 bags consisted of the mother, father, a baby and 3 children that looked to be between 4 and 9ish years
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    old. They hadn't checked in, prepaid any bags or tagged any of their bags. Plus their credit card had issues and the counter person had to try to find them 5 seats together on a full flight.
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    Overall they spent more than a hour with one of the 2 counter agents. I spent more than 50 minutes waiting to check my bag with the other agent and during that time
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    the mother of the family walked away from the counter in tears because she claimed her children were embarrassing her. Trust me it wasn't the children everyone in line was mad at.
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    By the time I had checked my bag the line had grown to roughly 50 people behind me and the flight had to be held to give people enough time to check their bags and clear security due to the wait.
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    To make things even better. There weren't 5 seats together on the plane, so they seated the mother and 1 child in a row. The 2nd child in middle seat of the row across from her. The 3rd child in
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    the middle seat behind her and the father in the middle seat in the row behind that. They ignored the children for most of the flight except to yell at them and expected the people sitting in those rows to watch the kids.
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    And the final Kicker was they actually needed to go to Texas to get the wife's car and belongs but it was cheaper to rent a car on the west coast. So because the father was in the military, he
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    charged the flights and 16 bags to the government and held up an entire flight he didn't need to be on, to save a couple of hundred dollars on a rental car.
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    Caranath 128 • 1d ago Yeah, he's in for a r. de awakening when he submits the papers for reimbursement. That not how the military operates, especially if he's PCSing within the lower 48.
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    Witty-Kale-0202 .1d ago. He will probably get burned for playing cowboy with his government travel card improperly/illegally. I would hate to have to explain that to my command!
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    oiseaufeux 1d ago • I don't understand why air companies don't make it mandatory to sit kids under 16 next to the parents. That shouldn't even happen to really young kids. Other passengers shouldn't babysit someone else's kids during flight.
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    • TheOriginal Mythrelle 21h ago • Why on earth would you need 16 bags for five people to go collect a car & bring it back? How would they even get five people and 16 bags into a car?
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    CringeEating 11h ago • That government charge card gonna charge back real hard
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    Readingreddit12345 • 1d ago • How do you need 16 bags? I've moved to other continents for years with only one suitcase
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    mrstanksmom • 7h ago People are the worst kind of people
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