I thought they were Chicago Airport Security thugs, not Feds, like TSA or FBI..................
The thing they could have done is kept upping the price until someone took the deal.
“Those who would trade liberty for security deserve neither.”
Can’t wait until HyperLoop travel will make air travel obsolete. Flying anywhere is miserable these days. Better to go by auto if you can drive it in less than 3 hrs. The stupid clods at United could have chartered a jet for those four late arriving crew members and saved millions for the company. This is just common sense, which the cheap skates in charge should have considered when they offered such a measly sum to deplane.
The passenger that was pulled off the plane suffered a concussion, broken nose and he lost two teeth according to a FOX news report.
This whole incident, including the behavior of both the airline and the passenger, reinforces my dislike of flying.
With inconsiderate TSA perverts, inconsiderate crews, and inconsiderate passengers, if there is any reasonable alternative. I don’t fly.
Did screaming girly-’doctor’ actually get back onto the flight?
Let's see. Michael Brown robbed a store, assaulted a cop and tried to steal his gun, and then charged him, and was a huge dude. This passenger was reacting to United violating the law regarding removing a passenger already boarded and in his seat, did not offer any kind of physical resistance, and probably didn't weigh more than 130 pounds.
Yeah, I can see the similarities. /sarcasm
Needs to never happen again. Period.
Require the airlines to keep raising the offer until someone takes it, if that’s ten grand, then they shouldn’t have overbooked.
Spare me the “They’re just people doing a job” BS, that’s no excuse.
There is a market based solution to this.
For me- once you’ve taken my money you *ARE* going to fulfill your end of the contract OR I will make your existence as miserable as it deserves to be, which is going to involve whatever combination of lawyers, social media and physical action I think most appropriate.
If you don’t have the seat, don’t sell it, PERIOD. Anything else is fraud.
So how did he get back on the plane? Wasn’t he in the custody of the 3 aviation security officers?
No, sorry lady, your husband can get a new career.
United has been a horrible, awful airline for a long time. I’m just very glad that I have been airline free since 2012. I hope it is forever. Much of the problem is government, but not all. United tries very hard to be a bad airline.
And then there’s the “Contract of Carriaige” the airlines use. Most are the size of small novels.
My immediate question is how do you get informed consent on a 35-40,000 word contract. . . .
This airline shill is trying to polish an unconstitutional turd and make us think its a diamond. Assaulting folks because they have the temerity to insist on a company honoring a contract is flat wrong.
Under no analysis did UAL comply with its contract of carriage. Ask your husband what that means. Hint: its a breach of contract and a violation of federal law.
If I were United I would litigate this, but they will probably pay this guy a grossly undeserved amount of money to settle.
Even if United breached the terms of its contract with him (and they do not appear to have breached, it looks like they followed the proper procedures for requesting volunteers and offering compensation before cancelling his ticket), he did not have the right to possess the aircraft. It is not his aircraft.
He has the right to money damages from United’s breach of contract, but he did not have the right to insist on remaining in physical possession of the aircraft after United and law enforcement ordered him to remove himself from their aircraft.
Under no analysis did UAL comply with its contract of carriage. Ask your husband what that means. Hint: its a breach of contract and a violation of federal law.
Cry me a river. Why is it airline employees (a SO in this case) think they are a gift to humanity?
The crew was on a power trip. That’s all there is to say about tge entire incident. If you fly enough you will see others with the same attitude.
that there are always two sides to every story