Posted on 04/15/2017 4:55:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
His boarding pass wasn’t revoked, since there was no legal trigger to revoke the pass.
It wasn't an overbooking. It was making room at the last minute for operational airline staff. The gate agent was probably going by the UA book. Instead of upping the compensation, the agent called security to resolve the dispute.
Except a private airline is not supposed to use law enforcement for non security issues.
What you are saying is that even illegal orders MUST be followed?
How did that work out for the troops at the Nuremberg trials?
“A policeman’s job is only easy in a police state.”
Orson Welles
“If he wins we all lose.”
Who’s “we,” you got worms? The rest of us “we” will win when Dr. Dao gets his multi-million dollar settlement from both United and the City of Chicago, and the three cops are doing a couple of years in the slammer for felonious assault.
United forcing off paying customers to make room for employees who “need” to be ferried somewhere is disgusting. They have one choice in the future, offer enough money that someone is guaranteed to volunteer.
He paid for a ticket, which is a contract that United had the legal obligation to fulfill to deliver him safely to his destination, they broke that contract so they could put an employee on that flight in place of the customer they had a contract with.
He wasn’t approached by police because he broke any law but to accommodate the airline that not only breached the contract they agreed to with the customer, but also because they were so incompetent they sold tickets to customers who were going to get bumped.
How hard is it to schedule employee transits so paying customers don’t get bumped? Answer: not hard at all. United was negligent. Police should have said it is your problem United this man has broken no law and you have a contract to transport him safely to his destination, get your act together!
In the end this policy of neglect and total disregard for their passengers will not only cost them the lawsuit award but lots of lost business. I won’t fly United ever again.
They should try to settle out of court because the longer this is news the more customers United loses. Maybe they will go bankrupt, what a dumb a** policy!
I hope United loses big and the cop gets sued and it helps to convince other cowboy cops you can’t treat law abiding or any non violent person with this kind of excessive violence. A shiny tin badge does not give anyone the right to break the law including assaulting people.
No need to. United's future actions and the settlement they pay will say all that needs to be said about the situation.
And "revoking" somebody's boarding pass for no valid reason doesn't erase the rights they had under their contract with the airline, and FAA regulations.
Except they didn't overbook the flight. They just decided that it would be better to kick four paying passengers off of the flight to re-position some crew members. It was about greed, somebody at United thought the convenience of their crew was more important than their paying passengers.
Still waiting for the 3 officers' names to be released. Considering the digging into Dr Dao's past, all 3 of those boys better be squeaky clean.
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