Meanwhile, at United Airlines:
Okay, I’m done, I promise!
teehee
“I just flew United… and boy am I beat.”
Once again the short straw sucks.
I read an article that was quoting people’s twitter posts on it. The one that sticks in my head is:
“No more seating prepare for a beating!”
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I will be back later with more united MEMEs lol
Any movie with Leslie Nielsen is mint!
Math time
United recently lost 37 million from a corruption scandal, stock has lost 250 million in value because of negative press, 1000’s of people will no longer fly UAL, or at least not for a while, and a lawsuit is likely going to cost them a few million. Cost of bad policies and bad press $300,000,000 + or -. Cost of chartering an aircraft from O’Hare to St. Louis to shuttle a few employees, $2000
Yes, not even considering the fact that they literally bloodied the guy, just the idea of forceful removal of a paid customer who was already seated on the plane was stupid when you look at all the other ways they could have gotten those employees to their destination. Stupid on top of stupid going on over there.
I read that P Trump is looking into hiring United Airline to deport illegal immigrants after seeing that video.
John.
Maybe they would loan services to the UK
Dont realy get it.
Normaly if they need to remove anyone its the last person checked in or something like that its not just a random person.
If thats the case here, this guy is just being a dick beacuse its probably stated somewhere when you buy a ticket.
Thankfuly i dont have to interact with passengers.
No, the story is that they ‘bumped’ four paying passengers to make way for employees that needed to get to the next hub. Those four passengers were already seated onboard the plane. There are no written policies that I know of that would excuse that. They had done nothing wrong, and should not have been removed - period. If it had been an actual over-booking, the airline should have stopped them at the gate. That would have been reasonable. Once the passenger is rightfully seated, there is no excuse for kicking them off. The airline should have just made other arrangements for those four employees.
The airline first tried to bribe the passengers with $400, then $800, but nobody took them up on it. So, the airline “randomly” selected four of them to be ejected from the plane. Three of them left, probably not in a good mood, but more-or-less peaceably. This man refused, saying that he was a Doctor and was flying to see a patient. The airline then called for security to forcefully remove him. Three men dragged him from the plane, and he ended up bloody from it. There’s certainly more to the story, but that’s as much as I know.
I would chip in for that. Criminals should go to jail (or be executed, if their crime warrants). Criminals from another country should go to jail in their own country.
+1 David
Hospital-ity
I just hope UA is as good at dragging people into a plane as they are at dragging them out.
John.
i know it’ll come off as devil’s advocate but:
UA has the right to bump anyone at any time for any reason or no reason at all (unless of course you refuse to bake a cake for a gay wedding; that’ll cost you $135k)
the stock will recover has already recovered as airline value is solely based on locations serviced, even above ticket price. sure a few people will boycott, but as with any overly-regulated service that has zero competition and the fedgov to bail out, people will still get on UA planes regardless of how many doctors they have the State bloody and drag off the plane, as they have no choice. You simply cannot boycott a monopolized service… hell half the time you purchase an airline ticket off the internet you don’t even know who the carrier is until you are on the plane.
Now if anyone in the USA could start an airline to and from wherever whenever at the whatever price suits them, people might be able to effectively boycott UA, and UA stock might actually dive. But as it stands, UA could have come out and said “Don’t like it tough; we’ll do it again tomorrow if we want” and it would do little to damage them.
Self moderated
This whole incident is old news now, but here is another perspective https://thepilotwifelife.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/i-know-youre-mad-at-united-but-thoughts-from-a-pilot-wife-about-flight-3411/