Duly compensated no doubt
Posted on 04/13/2017 3:37:45 AM PDT by Zakeet
And I don’t either.
“And it’s getting very tiresome to keep hearing that the flight was overbooked, when in fact the airline opted to toss off paying passengers so that four employees could enjoy free travel”
Get your alternative facts straight.
The cheap bas***ds at United only came up to $800 in offers to passengers and could have gone up to $1350. They sent in the goon squad to deplane a paying and seated customer. No way will I fly United again.
The Russians stole his seat...
They were reportedly flight crew for a job the NEXT day. Route them through multiple cities if necessary. Put them on separate planes if necessary. If the passenger can be shifted to another plane, so can that non-working crew (”oh, it’s in my contract, you can’t do that to me!”)
Customers pay in advance for a service. The airline has renegged on that agreement. Federal Trade Commission can be brought into this as it is an interstate wired sale.
Put “clauses” in the “agreement” if you like, but you can put a sign on your icy sidewalk (that you refuse to clean) that you aren’t responsible for injuries and it still won’t protect you.
Imagine you're seated at a restaurant. You reserved a table ahead of time, and they restaurant made you pay for your meal up front. You order when the waiter comes up and tells you to get up and leave because the manager wants to interview a sous chef at your table. They offer you a gift certificate at the dunkin' donuts next door, but you refuse, pointing out that you've already paid and have been seated. The bouncer comes over and beats the crap out of you.
Whether the restaurant is right or wrong is immaterial. It's bad for business.
If United goes belly up, they brought it on themselves.
If the four airline people were flight crew, the agents at the gate would have known about them in advance. They could have bumped four passengers pre-boarding, which would have prevented the entire scene.
Maybe. We'll see.
This country is in for a rude awakening. At some point people will stop seeing ALL people wearing badges of any kind as the enemy. The mindset of bureaucracies has become so authoritarian that there will be either a rebellion or complete submission.
Tyler Bridges should be ashamed. Such force used on a citizen when no crime had been committed is illegal, and in this case has the appearance of a hate crime.
Before its over United will not only pay damages for false arrest, negligence, abrogation of civil rights of freedom of movement and travel ( freedom of assembly), assault and battery, breach of contract, and punitive damages ( triple).
United will be paying a cool few million to the good doctor, who I believe is Korean.
Tyler Bridges can’t tell money hole from corn hole.
GMTA. The instant I read that ALL passengers on the flight were being compensated, I thought ‘witness tampering.’
They efree up.
They beat the chit out of this guy for an imperative that required violence.
Then, they let him back on the plane, bloodied, dazed and confused.
Then the CEO backs the action saying his employee acted properly and the guy was belligerent.
Then the CEO decides to refund each passenger.
Now, I think be should get his checkbook out of his Lambo and write an even bigger check.
I won’t fly United anymore. Got screwed the last several times I’ve flown (clear sky delays anywhere from 6-12 hours). And this is history going back to each of my last 4 flights (each one) dating back 10 years of experience.
If booking my flight to arrive 12-16 hours early for my event isn’t sufficient to arrive in TIME for my event in another city, I’ll travel by other means. A day delay without sufficient weather conditions or holiday conditions grounding all planes is inexcusable.
Tell me how a 60 minute flight to New Orleans takes 6 hours? I can drive there in that time and it is cheaper. Other flights were twice to NYC and once to Seattle. My Seattle flight was 12 hours late because the plane I was to leave on hadn’t left Houston for the East coast and made that voyage (and back) by the time it was supposed to be heading West to Seattle. None of this was disclosed until 12 hours of waiting. Screw that plane and send another plane to Seattle or cancel that east coast flight and left the rest of the flights continue.
It should have never gotten to that point in the first place - they made a huge error and compounded it with the forced ejection.
If you're at your local diner counter, have just started to eat your breakfast, when the manager tells you that you will have to leave the diner as one of his employees wants to sit there and eat your breakfast.
When you refuse, two thugs grab you and forcibly toss you out of the diner.
And you would be OK with that?
Ok?
They offered what they did. They seriously only really have to offer the price of the ticket. That is all he paid for.
And I think the physical situation got out of control in part due to the passenger making a bigger deal out of this than it needed to be. These guys needed to get him out of the seat, in a confined space, and I doubt they went in hoping to slam him into anything. The passenger wanted to put on a show, and security were pressed to get him out of the seat. By the time it got to that point, it was already too far gone to ever not look bad. However, it doesn’t matter if he paid or not. This policy is common on lots of airlines, and is an open secret, that doesn’t happen often. But people sure do act gravely offended when it does. Unless it was a plane carrying the staff needed so that the plane they are taking doesn’t get cancelled.
Duly compensated no doubt
But...but...but...Airplane!Police!Orders!
1) The passenger was a senior citizen, 69 years old.
2) The airline decided to limit themselves to vouchers for $800 to fly some other time rather than increasing their offer until they got volunteers.
3) They decided to “randomly” pick passengers to be forced out of their pre-paid seats, without regard to the personal circumstances of the passengers. They should have excluded senior citizens and parents traveling with children, since those passengers are less able to deal with sudden inconvenience.
4) This was at Chicago, a HUB for United where they also had the option of scrambling another plane to ferry their employees.
The airline made so many mistakes up front that what the passenger did in the face of bullies is moot.
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