Frank Romano says Delta Airlines lost his dog on a flight to Tampa. The airline says the dog escaped from it’s crate.
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LOS ANGELES (CBLA.com) — A Tampa man is in agony after he said Delta Airlines lost his dog at LAX.
Frank Romano and his 6-year-old dog, Ty, a pit bull, were headed to Tampa last Friday.
Romano says he was in his seat when an airline employee broke the news to him that they couldn’t find the dog.
CBS2’s Jeff Nguyen spoke to Romano via video chat Friday, a week after Ty was first reported missing.
Romano is home now and still doesn’t know what happened to his dog.
“It’s been very depressing. Very upsetting. I’ve been crying. I’ve been angry,” Romano said.
“She said your dog bit through the kennel. And we need you to just identify the dog. And then she changed her story that they couldn’t find my dog. And that the dog had been lost for an hour,” Romano said.
Romano got Ty more than a year ago at a pet store where he volunteered as a dog walker.
The store’s manager, David Cervantes, told Nguyen the two quickly formed a bond.
Bird House/Dog House in North Hollywood originally didn’t want to let Romano adopt Ty because Romano’s family was homeless and living in motels.
After Ty left the store, the staff has been getting weekly updates from Romano
“He would call us to say Ty’s doing good. We’re getting along. Send pictures. Everything that went on, we would know,” says Cervantes.
The Department of Transportation’s website says more than a dozen pets have chewed through their kennels and died on flights this year alone.
Delta sent Nguyen a statement that read in part: “Early indications show that procedures were followed, and the dog may have compromised the kennel on its own. Delta regrets this occurred while this pet was entrusted in our care.”
“I just want my dog back. He’s my best friend, that dog,” Romano said.
Romano says his family moved to from LA to Tampa hoping to find steady work. But his effort to make his life better has now taken a huge setback.
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Ty is a 6-year-old brindle and white Bull Terrier (Photo via Frank Romano)
A man is searching for his dog after he went missing Friday night, apparently from a cargo area at LAX.
Frank Romano said he was flying to Tampa out of LAX via Delta Airlines Friday night with his family and his 6-year-old bull terrier, Ty. Ty was in the cargo area in a carrier Romano said he had purchased from PetCo. Romano’s family boarded the plane, but a Delta employee escorted him off the plane and told him that an hour earlier, Ty had chewed through the door of his pet kennel and escaped. Romano found this odd.
“I don’t know how he could’ve bit through his kennel though when it had a metal door and was made of hard plastic,” he said.
Romano says the story about what happened to his “best friend” gets even more bizarre from there. For one, he doesn’t understand why the Delta employee didn’t tell him about Ty’s escape immediately. Also, he said he was told that the kennel Ty escaped from would appear in baggage claim, but it never did.
Romano said he searched around LAX, but Ty never turned up. The next day, his family flew to Tampa as planned. Romano has called Delta several times, but the situation has only become more confusing.
“They give us the run around,” he told LAist. “Even gave us a number to the cargo place at Tampa airport saying he was there. We called and said they had no dogs.”
If this story sounds odd, you might be disheartened to know that it’s not uncommon. Delta apparently has a history of losing pets. The airline has allegedly lost so many dogs under their care that someone created a Change.org petition with over 2,000 signatures to demand they take responsibility.
In 2011, a New York man bought a puppy in Alabama, then arranged to have the puppy sent back to New York along with him. Delta temporarily misplaced the dog, then found it in Atlanta. In 2011, a German Shepherd headed from California to Germany to join its owner—a couple in the Army—got loose in Atlanta while under Delta’s care. That dog was later hit by a car and died. Another unsatisfied Delta customer reported that he and his girlfriend had adopted a stray dog in Mexico in 2010, spent money nursing him to health and then made plans to bring the dog back to their home in Canada with them. Delta allegedly also gave them the run-around as to where the dog was with a similar story about an escape, but couldn’t seem to produce the dog.
Delta also mixed up two children in 2010—a boy and a girl—sending one to Boston and the other to Cleveland when it was meant to be the other way around.
Romano is still looking for Ty, and still doesn’t have any concrete answers from Delta. A representative at Delta told LAist that they would look into this and get back to us tomorrow. We’re hoping we see Ty and Romano reunited soon.
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99-year-old Richard Cole still loves to fly
SAN ANTONIO – He sat quietly at the Delta Airlines gate waiting on his plane while person after person came up to shake his hand and say, “Thank you for your service”.
Retired Lt. Col. Richard Cole, a B-25 pilot in World War II, was heading to Washington, D.C., to the American Veterans Center Conference, but before he could board his flight, he acknowledged the folks around him.
“I feel like I am very fortunate to be an individual that managed to be around today,” Cole said.
At 99 years old, Cole is still going strong.
“He is very healthy and he is still able to travel and when he is invited he still goes places,” said his daughter Cincy Chal.
Cole’s passion for flight was ignited in the 1920s, “Paid a dollar to take a ride on a Ford trimotor and I was hooked,” Cole said.
In 1941 he joined the Army Air Force and was commissioned as a second lieutenant when he climbed into a B-25, “It was heaven on Earth,” Cole said.
Early in 1942 he volunteered for a mission and become the co-pilot for the famous James Doolittle and was a part of the Tokyo Raid.
He recently took another ride in a B-25, and said it was “great” and that ride sums up his service.
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NEW YORK (
TheStreet) —
Delta
(DAL) shares rose Tuesday after the carrier issued a strong traffic report for October.
Delta shares were rising $1.97 on Tuesday to $42.58, a gain of nearly 5%. Year to date, Delta shares have gained 55%.
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Other airline shares were also gaining Tuesday morning, with American
(AAL) up $1.60 to $43.60 and United
(UAL) up $2.25 to $56.54.
Before the market opened, Delta reported that consolidated passenger revenue per available seat mile rose 3% in October, “driven by improvements in domestic and transatlantic unit revenue.” The carrier completed 99.9% of its scheduled mainline flights, and 86.8% of its flights arrived on time.
Delta had not provided specific guidance on October PRASM. On the carrier’s October earnings call, Delta President Ed Bastian said current quarter passenger revenue per available seat mile would grow by zero to 2%.
That level of PRASM growth, “combined with a significant decline in fuel prices, will lead to continued margin expansion,” Bastian said.
“There will be some noise between the individual months due to the timing of the Thanksgiving holiday, with the Sunday Thanksgiving return traffic, which is our largest revenue day of the year, shifting back into November this year,” he said.
Delta was the first airline to report October PRASM.
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Delta Airlines frequent fliers: you have just over two months to stock up on SkyMiles. Starting January 1, 2015, many passengers will need to fly over twice as much to earn the same number of award points.
That’s because Delta will award points in its SkyMiles frequent flier program based on fare paid instead of mileage flown, in a change announced back in February. Once the new system kicks in, lots of Delta passengers will find it impossible to earn anything close to the points they’ve been getting.
Let’s run the numbers. Say you’re flying round trip between New York JFK and Los Angeles International airports. Currently, a basic SkyMiles member (the least frequent flier, with no elite status) earns 4,922 mileage points for that trip based on flight miles. Top-status Diamond Medallion passengers (who fly more than 125,000 miles per year with the airline), receive those miles plus a 125 percent bonus, 11,075 miles total.
Up, up and away for old style frequent flier miles. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Come next year, awards will be based on the base fare, which doesn’t include taxes and fees. I just found an LAX-JFK round trip fare of $396. Subtract taxes and fees ($54) for a base fare of $342. A basic SkyMiles member will earn five times that, or 1,710 points. That’s about 35 percent of the current award miles.
More frequent fliers will earn more points per dollar, on a sliding scale up to 11 times the fare for Diamond Medallion passengers. That may sound like a lot, but 11 x $342 = 3,762 points, barely a third of the 11,075 they currently earn.
Yeah, ouch.
Some passengers will come out better, particularly those on short haul, relatively high fare flights. For example, passengers on Delta Shuttle service between New York and Boston currently earn a minimum of 500 miles, up to 1,125 for Diamond members. Next year, with a base fare of $207, a regular member would earn 1,035 points and a Diamond member 2,277.
None of this would be a big deal if Delta were changing its award redemption system commensurately, but that’s not happening. The number of SkyMiles points needed to redeem awards is remaining largely the same. On the other hand, Delta has announced that it’s getting rid of blackout dates. On the other other hand, no blackout dates don’t necessarily more award seats on any given flight.
Moral: you have until the end of this year to rack up the big flight miles.
DENVER, Colo. – A Ukrainian man was arrested for allegedly making unwanted sexual advances on two flight attendants aboard a Delta Airlines flight that landed at Denver International Airport on Monday night, federal authorities said.
Vadym Pecherskyi, 42, of Kiev, Ukraine, faces possible charges of interference with flight crew members. Pecherskyi is scheduled to appear before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Denver Wednesday, when he will be advised of his rights and the charges pending against him.
Just after 9 p.m. on Monday, an FBI agent was notified by the DIA Communications Center that a disturbance had occurred onboard Delta Flight 2525 from the Atlanta airport to DIA.
At DIA, the FBI agent learned that Pecherskyi had made sexual advances toward two female flight attendants. The man had been served at least two alcoholic drinks before his improper behavior began, according to a news release issued by U.S. Attorney John Walsh and FBI Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Thomas Ravenelle.
As a result of his sexual advances, both flight attendants felt they could not adequately perform their assigned duties aboard the airplane, authorities said, A passenger onboard the flight also confirmed the defendant’s advances toward the flight attendants.
A conviction for interference with flight crew members carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.
This case was investigated by the FBI and Denver Police Department.
DENVER (AP) — A man from Ukraine has been arrested at Denver International Airport after he was accused of interfering with two flight attendants on a Delta Airlines flight.
The U.S. Department of Justice says 42-year-old Vadym Pecherskyi, of Kiev, Ukraine, is accused of making sexual advances toward two female flight attendants on a flight to Denver from Atlanta on Monday.
The department issued a statement saying the man could be charged with interfering with flight crew members, which carries a possible sentence of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Pecherskyi is scheduled to appear before a U.S. magistrate judge on Wednesday, where he will be advised of charges pending against him.
Federal court records did not indicate whether Pecherskyi has an attorney.