That United flight wasn’t even “overbooked” — and that matters legally

Hotair ^ | 04/14/2017 | Cynthia Than

[Fantasywriter]

Dao didn’t start screaming until they head-slammed and concussed him. You do know that he’s undergone facial reconstruction surgery, right? A broken nose and two knocked out teeth contributed to the mess.

[Vendome]

So, the flight was not overbooked? Well, that check is going to hurt when he cashes it.

[Verginius Rufus]

I wonder if their computer had “randomly” picked a black person or a Latin-American person, if they would have ignored that pick and tried the computer again. The airline may have assumed that a white or Asian person has no rights—but would they have made the same assumption in the case of someone from one of the “protected classes”?

[CIB-173RDABN]

THE AIRLINES SOMETIMES *NEED* TO MOVE A PILOT AND CREW

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Charter a plane and move them.

[Fantasywriter]

‘We don’t know for certain if this was the case here or not... the CEO implied it was, but we don’t yet know.’

If they settle out of court we’ll likely never know.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Just another homosexual Clock Boy.

[samtheman]

A United Airlines spokesperson said that since Dr. Dao refused to give up his seat and leave the plane voluntarily, airline employees “had to” call upon airport security to force him to comply.

I love the use of the word "voluntarily"!!!

[PAR35]

Why are you yelling and complaining. Your United stock took a quick beating, but has pretty much rebounded. It was $70.11 last Friday, $69.13 today.

Now go take your meds.

[SecAmndmt]

the ticket is a contract. there are consequences to breaking a contract. I hope Mr Dao takes United to the cleaners

[LouieFisk]

I heard United is adopting a new slogan:
“You are now NOT free to move about the cabin”
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“You are free to be dragged around the cabin as we beat you bloody. Enjoy your flight!”

[bk1000]

“EVEN IF THE PILOT JUST DOES NOT LIKE THEM”

It is my understanding the pilot can do that very thing, but ONLY the pilot. There is another article going around that claims the pilots had nothing to do with this decision. United screwed the pooch on this one.

[Delta 21]

Boy aint that the truth.

I would start the offers to settle at 2 or 3 male prostitutes for a 3 day binge and go from there.

[SecAmndmt]

exactly

[American Quilter]

IMO airlines should be allowed to overbook. However, if there are more passengers than seats I don’t think they should be allowed to boot anyone involuntarily. They should be forced instead to offer higher and higher amounts of cash (not vouchers) until they find sufficient volunteers. I don’t care if the bidding gets to $50k.

It would be a lot cheaper than what they're going to have to pay out now, not to mention the PR damage. It will take at least 10 years for United to live this down.

[House Atreides]

“....the company is trying frantically to cover it’s nakedness with the pages of fine print that was written by lawyers.”
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Ahh... “fine print ...written by lawyers”? I guess you mean the contract/agreement between the airliner and its passengers?

[deport]

THE AIRLINES SOMETIMES *NEED* TO MOVE A PILOT AND CREW

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You are absolutely correct. But now the question becomes what are the rules/regs/etc that
govern the process. Next when did did UA become aware of the need to move that crew?
Was it before they boarded all the people, after they boarded all the people, etc?

[samtheman]

[exnavy]

Change “United Airlines” to “Dr Dao Airlines” sounds like what is about to happen.

[Fantasywriter]

No, not a Clock Boy. If he’d been Muslim or black, there is no chance in the world that he’d have been tased, brain-injured and put in the hospital. Asian is not a protected class.

[LouieFisk]

“Please point out your legal rationale here.”
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But it’s in ALL CAPS, doesn’t that count for something?