Houston – United Apologizes To Passenger Who Says US Rep Took Her First-class Seat

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    Simon posted a photo of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee in what she said was the seat she paid for.  (FACEBOOK)Houston – United Airlines has apologized and given a $500 travel voucher to a passenger who accused the airline of giving her first-class seat to U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Houston Democrat.

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    An airline spokeswoman said Monday that its internal systems show the passenger, Jean-Marie Simon, canceled her Dec. 18 seat from Houston to Washington, D.C. after a weather delay.

    Simon denies that she canceled the flight. She was given a seat in Economy Plus on the flight, and told the Houston Chronicle she saw Jackson Lee sitting in the seat that was assigned to her.

    United says it upgraded Jackson Lee automatically and not because she was a member of Congress. The congresswoman says in a statement that she didn’t ask for anything “exceptional or out of the ordinary.”


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    Normandavid1
    Normandavid1
    6 years ago

    Don’t believe anything this liberal member of Congress says.

    qazxc
    qazxc
    6 years ago

    Don’t believe anything any member of Congress says.

    Butterfly
    Butterfly
    6 years ago

    The apology should be from the congresswoman!! She had the nerve to take the seat so now she should publicly apologize!!

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    6 years ago

    The Congresslady seems to be a very strange person.

    puppydogs
    puppydogs
    6 years ago

    Could you imagine it was the other way around, a white republican congressmen and a black passenger????? The fake liberal media would be all over this story.

    adar29
    adar29
    6 years ago

    So another case of white male privilege oh wait it was a black woman stealing someone’s seat?

    lazy-boy
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    lazy-boy
    6 years ago

    “United says it upgraded Jackson Lee automatically and not because she was a member of Congress. The congresswoman says in a statement that she didn’t ask for anything “exceptional or out of the ordinary.” “

    sounds a bit weird doesn’t it?