Posted on 04/10/2017 2:59:25 PM PDT by grayboots
My husband is a Gold member on United and is totally disgusted by what they did to that poor man. I thought of a great marketing idea for other airlines. If they offered a comparable status on their airline to fly, my husband would jump at the chance to fly with them. Do you think the other airlines would think of this? I think so many people would switch over to their airline in a heartbeat. Or is this not an option for them?
Oh you’re killing us...we are in family room rolling on the floor ;)
Keep em coming :)
Good to have some humor shed on an unbelievable story.
I quit flying United years ago because they lost and beat up our luggage—guess I was ahead of the game! Now they are beating up people :(
That’s funny!
Who set the $1350 maximum? What if an airline were willing to pay more?
Apparently no one was volunteering to change flights.
They computer generated the seat numbers at random and told the passengers in those seats to leave the aircraft.
If United was insistent upon this one doctor being removed from the flight, they could have easily booked another flight for him on another airline either later that evening or earlier than the 2:00 pm United flight the next day.
Airlines have their rules, but when did passengers cease being human beings?
I wonder if the algorithm is about luggage...
Pull off either passengers who have no checked luggage or whose checked luggage is near the cargo bay doors.
United is run as if its corporate leadership is a government protected monopoly, or Mafia, maybe.
Delta doesn’t steal your luggage.
Maybe the one who looks like he can’t put up much opposition.
It’s neither overly ambitious nor false. In both this case and the case of those on trial in Nuremburg there is a question about the responsibility of those who committed a crime. I take the position that the LEOs abused their authoriy and committed assault. So this isn’t about employees doing mundane things as part of their jobs. This is about shielding a crime behind the claim that they were simply doing their jobs.
The Nuremburg trials cannonized the legal principle that everyone has a moral duty to refuse immoral and/or unlawful orders. Assault is a crime. Murder is a crime. Legally the question asked and answered by the Nuremburg trials applies equally to both crimes. Yes murder and mass murder in particular are more henious than assault, but I wasn’t suggesting that assault and murder are the same thing. I was suggesting that crimes were being defended with the “just following orders” defense in both cases. Hence they are equal when comparing them. So you disregard the most important part of my point because of ... honestly ... a knee-jerk reaction.
Yes, for disruptive behavior or safety issues. But they need to refuse to board you if they intend to bump you.
United really is a substandard airlines. I have been flying frequently since 1982 and I have flown many foreign carriers as well and US based carriers and I have to admitted many 3rd world country airlines service easily surpasses US carriers
United really is a substandard airlines. I have been flying frequently since 1982 and I have flown many foreign carriers as well and US based carriers and I have to admitted many 3rd world country airlines service easily surpasses US carriers
Dee Cocheran
“Airlines have their rules, but when did passengers cease being human beings?”
An excellent question that brings to mind a description of the airline industry:
The only large industry dedicated to driving their customers stark raving mad.
Well then...if that is the criteria they use...I guess I'm safe at 6' 4" and 250 lbs.
I'm also double safe since I'll never fly United again. United Airlines that is.
Not only is your comparison laughable, it’s ridiculous. For you to somehow equate both is a stretch of epic proportions. Forcibly removing a passenger from a plane who refuses to cooperate is not unlawful or immoral.
If those LEOs removed someone unwelcomed in your home, would you also then make this same insane argument?
He wouldn’t vacate the aircraft, what would you do?
Things happen. They needed those seats so that the crew could service others at another airport. Can you imagine the headlines then if you show up and there is no crew to fly your airplane?
With union contracts, you can’t simply drive pilots to airports. Even if the airports are down the road. For example, if pilots are at DCA and need to get to IAD, they would have to fly to ATL and then to IAD as opposed to driving 35 minutes down the road.
Had they known sooner, they would have refused to board you at the gate. No agent wants to pull someone off of an aircraft but it happens and it happens often for a myriad of reasons.
I wouldn’t want this guy as my doctor.
You are arguing for a similar perspective. United is going to take some lumps for this, deserved or not, and being defensive about the incident is not productive.
The more I read your arguments, the less I think of you, and the less I think of United.
Nope, never. If he were my Doctor that day, he wouldn’t be the next.
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