Posted on 04/13/2017 9:36:43 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
Under no analysis did UAL comply with its contract of carriage. Ask your husband what that means. Hint: its a breach of contract and a violation of federal law.
If I were United I would litigate this, but they will probably pay this guy a grossly undeserved amount of money to settle.
Even if United breached the terms of its contract with him (and they do not appear to have breached, it looks like they followed the proper procedures for requesting volunteers and offering compensation before cancelling his ticket), he did not have the right to possess the aircraft. It is not his aircraft.
He has the right to money damages from United’s breach of contract, but he did not have the right to insist on remaining in physical possession of the aircraft after United and law enforcement ordered him to remove himself from their aircraft.
Under no analysis did UAL comply with its contract of carriage. Ask your husband what that means. Hint: its a breach of contract and a violation of federal law.
Cry me a river. Why is it airline employees (a SO in this case) think they are a gift to humanity?
Only 2 paragraphs matter in this case. UAL failed to follow them.
Exactly.
The crew was on a power trip. That’s all there is to say about tge entire incident. If you fly enough you will see others with the same attitude.
> Did screaming girly-’doctor’ actually get back onto the flight? <
From what I understand, yes. After the three cops dragged him from the plane, all three of them (!) went looking for a gurney. They left the good doctor alone, so he simply re-boarded the plane.
Crazy, eh?
Absolutely correct. And they likely wouldn’t have had to have gone much further than the $800 already offered.
I doubt they would have needed to go any further than $800 if they had offered cash instead of a travel voucher.
To get his laptop.
Would you have left yours there?
If you’re dragged out of some place without your property, would you just forget about that property?
that there are always two sides to every story
Well, I do want a competent one when I fly, and in the air a disruptive passenger is a security risk for all on board and may have to be handled physically. But on the ground, seated, minding his own business and not causing a ruckus it's a different story. There are ways of handling overbooking and this isn't one of them.
All good things gotta come to an end
and it's the same with the wildwood weed.
"You can drag me then, I don’t go. I'm staying. You'll have to drag me."
Well -- OK, @sshole. You got your wish.
> So how did he get back on the plane? Wasn’t he in the custody of the 3 aviation security officers? <
See my post #28.
Your opinion has no bearing on the subject. No one asked you for it.
No, these guys are total idiots that can't tell socks from sneakers on an infant.
Wonder if she was put up to this, or wrote this excuse all by herself.
Meh
Fwiw, I attended an event at a local hotel......this was several months ago & one of the Benghazi team was going to speak.
I got there early......found a seat fairly close to the front...,,and don’t remember seeing a ‘reserved area’.....but all the same asked the couple in front of me if I could sit there.
Later, close to starting, a group of people came in and DEMANDED I move because the seats were ‘ reserved for other people’....
I tried arguing, but was outnumbered
The ‘other people’ turned out to be some of our local political cartel ( sorry, but that’s what they act like.)
They were ‘ neverTrumpers’ during the campaign even though they were suppose to be campaigning for him in the county!
I was upset.....angry.....offended......
I found a seat in the back.....
No one is more deserving than others in these type of situations...
This pilot’s wife is looking out for Numero Uno.....period
I’m probably being to simple minded about this but getting past the point of this being a public relations nightmare and the fact that this guy is going to make a lot of money in a lawsuit, and the fact they would have saved a lot of money if they would have kept bumping up the deal until someone took it, why don’t the airlines set aside seats for crew members instead of booking paying passengers and then causing a nightmare by forcibly removing them?
In my simple mind they set aside a certain number of seats for each flight for crew members. If they don’t need the seats then sell them as standby. The point is that United and I’m sure the rest of the airlines think it is preferable to sell the seats and then bump people who have paid.
I’m just saying that you can’t go back and change how United screwed up, but they should try and fix it going forward.
It was United’s fault for 1) over booking, 2) not upping the price for a volunteer, 3) beating the snot out of a customer and 4) not scheduling the crews better. Who will they beat down next time, a pregnant mother, a toddler, or grandma?
The plane was delayed something like 2.5 hours. That hardly gets the “MUST!!!” fly crew to the next airport in time. IF there really was a “must” to any of it. As if there aren’t jump seats in the cockpit and steward’s sections. Fine, switch out the current crew with the “musts” or whatever it takes. As it is, they’re now facing a $$$$$$ suit, very bad publicity and lost customers.
United acted like a Chicago thug gang and so should be sued for millions and those thugs and their supervisors fired.
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