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Can Anyone Help Jonathan Get to Houston?

JayKoz said:
I have no clue how true this is, but I have a co-worker that went to a tournament game this year through his friend - and his friend was a guest of this particular team. This was also in Albany.

He told me that the NCAA takes care of the hotel bookings ahead of time, and the higher the seed, the better hotel you get.

Again, not sure regarding how true this is, but thought it was interesting. You’d have to think that the NCAA is booking blocks a year ahead, at least.
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Not sure that happened in Vegas with the hotels - from their Instagram profiles, you can tell Arkansas was in Vdara which is a significant step up from Luxor where UConn was put originally. UCLA was in the Delano, also a major step up on Luxor. It appears the NCAA booked exclusively MGM Resorts hotels and UConn got shafted. Glad they got the hell out of there and went up to Resorts World, who appeared to treat them extremely well.
 
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UConntLose said:
Since I work in PR, I think there is a major PR opportunity here if an airline comes to the rescue and gets him down there. I'm going to start emailing the executives of the major airlines and see what can be done.
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I think Alaskan airlines would be at the top of the list.
 
aburks41 said:
So the inside scoop is there was only 1 seat left on the PJ for a handler, and they offered to buy the other handler a commercial plane ticket. They refused, claiming they needed to travel together. Ungrateful SOB's...
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Well they showed who is in charge. Lol Now neither of them nor Jonathan will be there
 
aburks41 said:
So the inside scoop is there was only 1 seat left on the PJ for a handler, and they offered to buy the other handler a commercial plane ticket. They refused, claiming they needed to travel together. Ungrateful SOB's...
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Imagine turning down free airfare, hotel and tickets to the Final Four just because you could not sit together on a flight. The handlers could have just went up to Adama and asked that give up his seat for the other Handler and he fly commercial since the Handler's feel like they are more important than him...

I have a little French Bulldog.. . I'll say she identifies as a husky, hell, I'll even dress her up like one, if it means free travel, hotel and tickets...
 
ADK46er said:
Imagine turning down free airfare, hotel and tickets to the Final Four just because you could not sit together on a flight. The handlers could have just went up to Adama and asked that give up his seat for the other Handler and he fly commercial since the Handler's feel like they are more important than him...

I have a little French Bulldog.. . I'll say she identifies as a husky, hell, I'll even dress her up like one, if it means free travel, hotel and tickets...
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This is a gross misstatement of what happened. The handlers did not turn down free travel because they're ungrateful. They turned it down due to the extremely stringent rules of how his handlers must travel with him. Don't forget he's a specially trained dog, as are his handlers. He cannot be in public without them.

The one(s) who dropped the ball here are those non-Jonathan staffers who didn't offer to or refused to give up their seat and fly commercial so his handlers and him could be on the charter.
 
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brasssbonanzaa said:
The one(s) who dropped the ball here are those non-Jonathan staffers who didn't offer to or refused to give up their seat and fly commercial so his handlers and him could be on the charter.
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So we needed to rent a minivan and hire a driver. Or Uber pet.
Not as convenient as a chartered plane but seems like a solvable problem but I never had to plan travel for ct most recognized dog.
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
This is a gross misstatement of what happened. The handlers did not turn down free travel because they're ungrateful. They turned it down due to the extremely stringent rules of how his handlers must travel with him. Don't forget he's a specially trained dog, as are his handlers. He cannot be in public without them.

The one(s) who dropped the ball here are those non-Jonathan staffers who didn't offer to or refused to give up their seat and fly commercial so his handlers and him could be on the charter.
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That doesn't even make sense. He is a privately owned dog. There are no NCAA or UConn rules that can penalize them here. This is 100% on his owners.

You also can't be serious trying to tell a donor - who offered to spend upwards for $10k-15k for Jonathan - to give up their seat so an additional handler can fly private.
 
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brasssbonanzaa said:
This is a gross misstatement of what happened. The handlers did not turn down free travel because they're ungrateful. They turned it down due to the extremely stringent rules of how his handlers must travel with him. Don't forget he's a specially trained dog, as are his handlers. He cannot be in public without them.

The one(s) who dropped the ball here are those non-Jonathan staffers who didn't offer to or refused to give up their seat and fly commercial so his handlers and him could be on the charter.
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That’s absurd. Have you ever met a human being? No one who was told they could get on the team charter from Green was going to say “No, that’s fine, I earned the right to be on this charter but I’ll drive to Logan and fly commercial by myself instead.”
 
Ok, here’s the story now that it’s confirmed. I reached out to a higher up at Delta. It turns out Delta has a Celebrity pet program. They stated the would love to have Jonathan on their flight. AD David Benedict connected me with Jonathan’s handler, I connected her with Delta. Glad this all worked out!
 
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UConntLose said:
Ok, here’s the story now that it’s confirmed. I reached out to a higher up at Delta. It turns out Delta has a Celebrity pet program. They stated the would love to have Jonathan on their flight. AD David Benedict connected me with Jonathan’s handler, I connected her with Delta. Glad this all worked out!
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UConntLose said:
Ok, here’s the story now that it’s confirmed. I reached out to a higher up at Delta. It turns out Delta has a Celebrity pet program. They stated the would love to have Jonathan on their flight. AD David Benedict connected me with Jonathan’s handler, I connected her with Delta. Glad this all worked out!
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Let me shake your hand and say a job fantastically done
I tip my hat to you UConntLose
I feel many folks including AD David Benedict owe you one
Cant figure why he couldn't do something but I guess he feels its below his pay grade - its plain ridiculous
 
UConntLose said:
Ok, here’s the story now that it’s confirmed. I reached out to a higher up at Delta. It turns out Delta has a Celebrity pet program. They stated the would love to have Jonathan on their flight. AD David Benedict connected me with Jonathan’s handler, I connected her with Delta. Glad this all worked out!
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Tip of the hat to you for making this happen.
You should be given a ticket to the game as an honorary Jonathoan handler.
 
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