Not overbooked. Didn’t have their crap together and had no logistical way to get their 4 employees (4 hrs by car or other carrier..... riiiiiiight?) to another airport for a flight noonish tomorrow. Absolute F’n Morons. It is incompetence at an epic level multiplied by stupidity and topped off with a sprinkle of jack boots. UAL needs the alien anal probe hard core and are about to get it. This guy is walking away with 5 mil plus.
The official excuse is that they overbooked it.
(By four, magically, doncha know.)
United, fly the friendly skies..Or we beat you.
There is no way he gets that much. And his beef would be with the cops, not the airline.
He gets $150k, tops.
>>It is incompetence at an epic level multiplied by stupidity and topped off with a sprinkle of jack boots.
Worth saying again.
Some people on another forum I’m on, including some lawyers, did some analysis of the United Ts & Cs for passenger behavior. On the face of it, they had no ability to remove him involuntarily once they had allowed him to boarded and be seated, based on their own rules.
As you said, this ought to end up being very expensive, both in settlement costs and PR. It already is, in PR. And unfortunately we’ll never know how expensive the settlement costs are, as they will be under NDA.