Delta bumps entire flight for Florida basketball team (Video)

All 50 passengers on a flight to Atlanta, GA., were bumped from their plane in order to accommodate the University of Florida men's basketball team who were on the way to CT for a Monday night game -which they lost; the chartered plane the team was to use had mechanical difficulties so the airline decided to swap the team onto flight 5059 leaving travelers scrambling.

Delta spokesman Michael Thomas told The Sun in an email that the passengers from flight 5059 were accommodated on other flights and given vouchers valid for use through Delta for future trips.



The airplane originally meant for the basketball team required maintenance, he wrote, and, "due to operational need and aircraft routing requirements as a result of the busy travel holiday," Delta decided to use the other airplane and cancel the commercial flight for which it had been initially scheduled.

"Delta apologizes to those customers on Delta Connection flight 5059, operated by ExpressJet, who were impacted by the resulting cancellation of their flight," he stated.

I would be extremely annoyed at being bumped, and no amount of vouchers would help.