HAPPY BIRTHDAY JETBLUEHOSTAGE.COM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

It was a week ago at around 3pm that I started JetBlueHostage.Blogger.com. Out of curiosity, I did a domain search for JetBlueHostage.com. And what do you know? One of ‘em slipped thru the cracks didn't it, JetBlue? With the magic of URL forwarding, we were born.

It was a week ago that JetBlue admitted they made a mistake. The biggest "no-shit-sherlock" statement of 2007.
It was a week ago today that I received one of the thousand or so emails that started going out. "A roundtrip ticket equivalent to the amount you paid when booking this reservation" for all people held "hostage" for longer than three hours.

This is when some simple math is appropriate.
630 Boarding time
500 Shuttle Relief
10.5 Hours in the comfort of 32" in leg room

3 < 10.5

A 6.5 hour disparity sparked the birth of this blog.

Up to then, "The Valentine's Day Hostage Crisis" it was just another unwritten post in my oft neglected blog NotEverythingIsACrisis.com.

Instead of spending my Valentine's Day with my family, who had arranged to travel to LA from the Bay Area, my friends in LA and Charlie, I commiserated with the other passengers on JetBlue #351.

Setting out to find a way for the long-term "hostages" to be compensated accordingly was my search for India. Of course I stumbled onto you and you, me. And I have never been more grateful. Thank you.

Thanks to Jaunted.com. Yours was the first site to link to us. And honestly, this would be nothing NOTHING, if you didn’t give the very first track back to us.

Thanks to CNN and Abbie Tatton and the people at The Situation Room.

Thanks to Charlie and Ruth and David. Y’all are the information trifecta. Let’s fight the good fight.

Love,
Gen