United may have just bankrupted thenselves.
They forgot to tell everyone to turn off their cell phones before the goons removed the customer.
The CEO’s smug non-apology apology sure did not help. I’d be shorting them hardcore.
People were saying the same thing about Pepsi the last few days for their stupid commercial until United Airlines knocked them out of the news.
Trust me on this: something will come along and knock United Airlines out of the news and this will all blow over. The average American is too stupid and has too short of an attention span for this to really affect United.
“United may have just bankrupted thenselves.”
The guy who put the story out to the media is a journalist for the Washington Post. He was on the plane. His wife took the videos.
This was NOT United Airlines. It was Republic Airways. Big difference. Different CEO...different management, different employees. They’re not interchangeable. It’s a regional airline that also serves American and Delta.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_Airways_Holdings
One would begin to wonder if there isn’t some sabotage going on. Could United be this stupid? They don’t really pay their executives actual dollar bills, do they?
I doubt this. Although UAL could have certainly handled this better and will certainly lose the "public relations battle", once the emotional impact of seeing an adult -- albeit, a screaming, out-of-control big man -- dragged forceably from the private company's airplane subsides, the passenger's irrational behavior and federally-mandated aircraft safety requirements imposed on the carrier will, I think, carry significant weight in any settlement.