Laptop screen was crushed by reclining seat

A passenger on a Delta Air Lines flight from Austin, Texas, to Los Angeles, California, says his livelihood was destroyed after his laptop screen was crushed when the passenger in front of him reclined his seat.

Pat Cassidy, who hosts the Hard Factor podcast, placed his 16-inch Macbook Pro on the tray table and began to edit photos. As he was working, Cassidy was horrified when the person in front of him reclined their seat, crushing his screen.

In an article on Barstool Sports, Cassidy wrote that the flight attendant didn’t seem to care that his laptop was destroyed.

“To make matters worse the flight attendant came over to tell me that the guy sitting in front of me ‘needs to be able to recline his seat’ and then asked him if ‘he was okay?’ completely ignoring the fact that the thing I use to podcast and lose money gambling had be decimated. ”

Cassidy said he received an email from Delta informing him that they do not cover personal property that is damaged during a flight, instead offering him 7,500 “bonus miles” as compensation.

He slammed the offer on Twitter, calling the bonus miles “the equivalent of a $75 gift card.”

“Delta is giving me the equivalent of a $75 gift card and an explanation that you would give a six-year-old. Cool.”

Not everybody had sympathy for Cassidy, with a few people blaming him for the damage to his Macbook.

“Am I the only one to think this is not the airline’s fault? You _tucked_ the screen into the tray storage area. Frankly, it’s unsurprising that this would happen,” Twitter user Hisham wrote. 1190kex.iheart.com