American Airlines Sold a First Class Seat With No Tray Table—And a Coach Seat Labeled ‘Broken’ [Roundup]

News and notes from around the interweb:

• Another day, another customer who deserves a full refund.
  

  Hey @AmericanAir I paid for a 1st class seat so i could comfortably get work done and this is what i got! No space to work to even eat. Not great service. Think I deserve a credit or partial refund. pic.twitter.com/tnQl0f2RiK

  — cathleen R (@cathleen13) May 7, 2025

  And another.

  Nothing more luxurious than flying American on the a319 by
  byu/JohnnyHorseRacing inamericanairlines

• “Service animal” The size of that thing!
  

• Association of American Railroads seeks repeal of 2024 Biden administration rule requiring a minimum of two crewmembers to operate trains which was a campaign promise that, they say, had no data to back up safety improvements to justify its cost.
• Bernie Sanders flies private because United Airlines is so inefficient: “When you run a campaign and you do 3, or 4 or 5 rallies in a week, the only way you can get around to talk to 30,000 people – think I’m going to be sitting on a waiting line at United waiting while 30,000 people are waiting? That’s the only way you can get around.”

  The truth is that Sanders should be doing something about how long it takes to fly commercial. The need to show up hours in advance of a flight, go through long security lines and run the gauntlet of shopping malls to take what’s supposed to be the most efficient mode of transportation is a failure of epic proportions. Getting to, through and out of airports is taking longer and longer. He can avoid it – the rest of us cannot.

  WATCH: @BretBaier challenges Bernie Sanders on why he spent $221k using private jets during his ‘fighting oligarchy’ tour pic.twitter.com/lMii8D4HC1

  — TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) May 7, 2025

• Surprised this doesn’t happen more often, honestly.
  

  Flying today from DCA… a guy is asleep at [Delta Sky Club] bar. Bartenders (the two usual ones there) try to wake him. Then he gets up and yaks, and sits down again. They offer to call paramedics and he declines. Soon a red coat arrives, w a wheel chair and assistant. They wheel guy to gate. I arrive at my gate two hours later to see he is on my flight.

  Bar tender and red coat are both there. The guy claims he is sober now and had bad fruit earlier. The red coat was excellent. She calmly said his options were to fly tomorrow, or refund ticket, or paramedics, or police. She said w bar tenders input on drinks and gate agent attesting to the guys smell, he could not fly on the same day of intoxication regardless of how sober he may be now (note: she was not buying it). If he got sick in air it risked plane being diverted so gate agent had right to deny boarding.

  Ok… best part… he was D1 and I was first on upgrade list.

• An airline that could fix this would be truly ‘premium’ and win so much loyalty:
  

  American Airlines $AAL – HAS to be one of the worst airlines to travel with. Why would staff tell customers to check their carry-on when there is space available to put in the overhead? (Proof provided). The Stock is a true reflection of the failure AA is #americanairlines #aal pic.twitter.com/RmXXHEVTg2

  — Tommy Aggelos (@AggelosTommy) May 8, 2025

• Special.
  

  A beautiful moment on @AmericanAir flight from DC-Toronto. A woman was very anxious and not feeling well with turbulence so flight attendant jumped in next to her and consoled her for most of the flight, got her tissues and water. Just a great moment of humanity & caring.❤️ pic.twitter.com/7rSXxKbpzU

  — Randy Clarke (@wmataGM) May 7, 2025

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