Just let this woman get on the dang plane!

[Bateluer]

http://www.king5.com/news/Dying-woman-still-getting-run-around-from-airlines-121616824.html

Crystal Kim has stage four breast cancer and has 2 months to live. She wants to spend her last days with her family in Korea.

"Spend time with my family and die in Korea. And buried by my grandma because she raised me," says Kim.

Her trip home was suppose to be on Mother's Day, a gift from her daughter. But despite having tickets, her medical records, and a doctor's note stating she's strong enough to travel, Korean Air refused to let her board.

"I gave it all to Korean Airlines and it still wasn't good enough," says Mimi, who is traveling with her mom. "Then they asked me for the scans, the MRI's, and the x-rays."

An airline spokesperson told KING 5 that all airlines have policies and procedures to deal with passengers with medical conditions. They need to consider if someone dies in flight, other passengers would be "traumatized."

Seems like a lot of bad press for the airline. Just let her get on the plane, fly home, and spend her last days with her family.

 

[theeedude]

http://www.king5.com/news/Dying-woman-still-getting-run-around-from-airlines-121616824.html



Seems like a lot of bad press for the airline. Just let her get on the plane, fly home, and spend her last days with her family.

This is the KAL PR equivalent of flying a 747 into Soviet Airspace.

 

[jackschmittusa]

1. She seemed fine to fly. The airline has people better qualified to determine her state of health than her own doctor? Get real!

2. How would people be traumatized by "death by natural causes" anyway? Has it really come to that?

3. She should instantly sue for eleventy bazillion dollars, quickly settle for 50k, and have the money to make her last days as comfortable as possible.

 

[davmat787]

There are organizations such as AngelFlight that will fly critically ill people, and their family, free of charge on private jets. Usually there are extra seats on a GV or whatever when the corporate executives fly somewhere. Samsung comes to mind in this situation, I used to see their private aircraft all the time at Boeing Field in Seattle. Of course they should not be expected to do this, but the PR would be invaluable. Speaking of PR, I would guess the more this poor lady receives, the quicker this will be resolved.

Also Asiana flies to Korea out of KSEA last I checked, I wonder if she has tried switching airlines.

Bottom line I expect liability to be a factor in KAL's decision not to fly her.

She should instantly sue for eleventy bazillion dollars, quickly settle for 50k, and have the money to make her last days as comfortable as possible.

For 50K, she could charter a private jet to fly her to Korea.

 

[dmcowen674]

Cool

Great to see Private Company doing the same as the Government telling people what they can and can not do. :thumbsup:

 

[Double Trouble]

What a terrible PR move by the company.... and like most companies, they compound their mistakes by stubbornly insisting they are in the right instead of just saying "yeah, you're right, we should have handled this differently, what can we do to fix it".

Amazing how billion dollar companies can have such lousy sense of PR.

 

[PottedMeat]

All of this for a woman who doesn't need oxygen, or an IV, just a wheelchair to travel. Now they have seats booked for Thursday, this time on Delta Airlines.

"I think we're going to fly to Seoul on Thursday. Definitely. It's important to stay positive," says Mimi.

thats good at least

 

[kage69]

Wow, that's surprisingly to me. Korean Air has wowed me in the past with exemplary service and courtesy, can't believe they'd get this anal about some family reunification, something almost every Korean contemplates often.