Posted on 04/13/2017 9:36:43 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
I thought they were Chicago Airport Security thugs, not Feds, like TSA or FBI..................
The thing they could have done is kept upping the price until someone took the deal.
“Those who would trade liberty for security deserve neither.”
Can’t wait until HyperLoop travel will make air travel obsolete. Flying anywhere is miserable these days. Better to go by auto if you can drive it in less than 3 hrs. The stupid clods at United could have chartered a jet for those four late arriving crew members and saved millions for the company. This is just common sense, which the cheap skates in charge should have considered when they offered such a measly sum to deplane.
The passenger that was pulled off the plane suffered a concussion, broken nose and he lost two teeth according to a FOX news report.
This whole incident, including the behavior of both the airline and the passenger, reinforces my dislike of flying.
With inconsiderate TSA perverts, inconsiderate crews, and inconsiderate passengers, if there is any reasonable alternative. I don’t fly.
Did screaming girly-’doctor’ actually get back onto the flight?
Let's see. Michael Brown robbed a store, assaulted a cop and tried to steal his gun, and then charged him, and was a huge dude. This passenger was reacting to United violating the law regarding removing a passenger already boarded and in his seat, did not offer any kind of physical resistance, and probably didn't weigh more than 130 pounds.
Yeah, I can see the similarities. /sarcasm
Needs to never happen again. Period.
Require the airlines to keep raising the offer until someone takes it, if that’s ten grand, then they shouldn’t have overbooked.
Spare me the “They’re just people doing a job” BS, that’s no excuse.
There is a market based solution to this.
For me- once you’ve taken my money you *ARE* going to fulfill your end of the contract OR I will make your existence as miserable as it deserves to be, which is going to involve whatever combination of lawyers, social media and physical action I think most appropriate.
If you don’t have the seat, don’t sell it, PERIOD. Anything else is fraud.
Absolutely correct. And they likely wouldn’t have had to have gone much further than the $800 already offered.
That, OR hire a car to DRIVE their employees (I hear it’s a 4.5 hour drive, for gosh sakes).
Either of those is a HUGE BARGAIN when compared to what they ended up “buying”.
That seems like the most obvious solution to the problem.
I understand the "thoughts from a Pilot Wife" but all of that is a reflection of our overly-lawyered society. Yes, I'm sure there are 37 pages of fine print behind every airline ticket, and yes, if I were to read and memorize all 37 pages of fine print I could probably avoid these unpleasant situations.
But the only people who want to live in THAT type of society are the lawyers who are paid to write the fine print.
Just pay people to get off the plane. It's simple. It's relatively cheap. It's easy for anyone to understand.
So how did he get back on the plane? Wasn’t he in the custody of the 3 aviation security officers?
we are not forced to fly the airlines...its our choice....
No, sorry lady, your husband can get a new career.
That's what engineering companies would do if they knew they wouldn't be able to just bring lots of engineers in from foreign countries to undercut the wages of American engineers.
But they have another way to handle the problem at lower cost, and they take it.
Same here. Why should they keep upping the price when they can just call in law enforcement? Cheaper. In the short run, anyway, which is all anyone at Dunder-Mifflin Airlines can focus on.
United has been a horrible, awful airline for a long time. I’m just very glad that I have been airline free since 2012. I hope it is forever. Much of the problem is government, but not all. United tries very hard to be a bad airline.
And then there’s the “Contract of Carriaige” the airlines use. Most are the size of small novels.
My immediate question is how do you get informed consent on a 35-40,000 word contract. . . .
They were Chicago airport security agents, not the feds.
According to the attorney at the news conference, Dao received a severe concussion, a broken nose that will require reconstructive surgery for sinus damage, and he lost two front teeth. Sounds like the thugs meant business when he resisted getting off. I don’t think receiving a beating when being bumped is in the contract of carriage fine print.
This airline shill is trying to polish an unconstitutional turd and make us think its a diamond. Assaulting folks because they have the temerity to insist on a company honoring a contract is flat wrong.
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