If he provided proper ID/credentials to the airline people and they still booted him,then they have a REAL problem.Watch his patients claim harm because they didn’t get treatment.
Airlines don’t need to be justified. The only issue that occurred was the amount of force needed to remove the passenger from the airplane by a police officer.
Who was the Captain of the plane?
What does he/she have to say about this?
The Captain is the boss of the plane, not a ticket agent or security person.
Why is no one talking about the Captain?
It would be very interesting to know, and if I were his lawyer, I would try to find out, just exactly HOW he was selected for ejecting!!
What a disgusting act on the part of “Untied” airlines!!
If removing him was legal then there is no problem.
This makes the situation much worse, from an optics perspective.
Hard to believe so many think the airline was at fault. Read the truth, check airline (government) procedures and then comment. Wake up America.
Little surprised at all the whining on FR....this moron is the only one to blame for this whole soap opera. He should have had the sense and the class to get up and leave quietly. People are bumped all the time. Put on your big boy pants, grow up, and suck it up.
This isn’t to justify the airlines,
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If the airlines followed the correct procedure in selecting those to be removed
and other action had to be taken to get them off then I don’t necessarily see
the airlines as at fault. Now the removal process by the Police may have some
explaining to do at some point in the followup that sure to come.
Has no bearing on what happened. He was randomly selected. UA very likely violated their own policies stated in their contract for carriage. This attempt to malign the passenger is bogus.
Happy I am flying Delta today. BOYCOTT UNITED. And dragging the doctor out in public now is unnecessary. Respect his privacy. UNited is sole villain here. And also Congress for setting caps on compensation. Or is this refs that Trump can rescind?
It’s hard to believe all the snowflakes on this one. Dr. Dao woke up and had a bowl of Stupid for breakfast. 4 people were asked to leave the jet... 3 left “peacefully.” The Dr. decided to play “Occupy United” and pretend he was going to die on his mission to save the plane. When you are asked to leave a plane by a law enforcement officer and you refuse you enter a whole new level of stupid. As you are being escorted off the plane you can do all the whining and complaining and moaning and not break federal law. Once you refuse and resist... you better have a good lawyer to find a loop hole in the law that allows you to hijack an aircraft with a load of people who want to get home. Over 40,000 overbookings took place last year! How many “Dr. Daos” did we hear about. This guy was just playing martyr.
I’d say the context is irrelevant.
Since he was selected randomly, not based on his history, it didn’t matter who it happened to.
Criminal background is irrelevant. He had a good job that he had to be at the next morning. It’s hard to get a good job with a record. I don’t blame him.
I was bumped from a British Airways flight from St Petersburg to London n 1996 when it landed in Warsaw. I was offered no compensation, hotel accommodations, or an explanation. When I asked why I was being removed, the only answer was a stern: “You have to get off.” I figured out for myself that the flight had been overbooked. I complied and had to spend the next 26 hours in the waiting room seated (when I wasn’t walking in a circle keeping my eye on my luggage) in a hard-plastic, unupholstered banana seat until the next flight to my destination. I could not venture into Warsaw because I had no visa.
In reality United Airlines, treatment of one of their customers and paying passengers who had already boarded the plane and taken his seat was treated criminally. They beat him unconscious and illegally removed him from the airplane. If they had wanted to remove passengers they have to do so before they board the plane and have taken their seats.
United Airlines is about to deservedly get the pants sued off of them. UAL lost nearly A BILLION DOLLARS in value today alone.