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Spirit Airlines Attempts to Collect Cancellation Fees From Flight 1549 Passenger 1

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @03:04PM from the is-that-your-final-answer dept.

In the granddaddy of all stupid public relations decisions, Spirit Airlines decided to charge two passengers a $90 cancellation fee because the couple never used their return flight from Myrtle Beach on Flight 1549. While Spirit Airlines employees may not be very adaptable to tough situations, their HR department can take solace in the fact that they know how to spew forth company policy. It only took a day for the company to give the Kolodjay family a full refund. Behold the power of bad press!

Comment ...and now, from rural Oregonians (Score 1) 713

by unclecameron on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @03:19PM (#26283533) Attached to: Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax

I live in rural Oregon, the area potentially most affected by this. Rural area people are the worst off economically now, since the state sold and then squandered most of our resources called ONC funds based on the wholesale timber sale years ago, now complains it is broke, um, no kidding? Sustainability of its forest resources is the long term solution, rather than the pillage-the-forests days of yore. Now the people have to try to figure out how to pay for the sins of those who have long since cashed out. Good luck to the Governor, people here will never put up with GPS trackers.

Economic Crisis Will Eliminate Open Source 753

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @10:53AM from the why-so-gloomy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The economic crisis will ultimately eliminate open source projects and the 'Web 2.0 free economy,' says Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur. Along with the economic downturn and record job loss, he says, we will see the elimination of projects including Wikipedia, CNN's iReport, and much of the blogosphere. Instead of users offering their services 'for free,' he says, we're about to see a 'sharp cultural shift in our attitude toward the economic value of our labor' and a rise of online media businesses that reward their contributors with cash. Companies that will survive, he says, include Hulu, iTunes, and Mahalo. 'The hungry and cold unemployed masses aren't going to continue giving away their intellectual labor on the Internet in the speculative hope that they might get some "back end" revenue,' says Keen."

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