Considering how the Chinese Police force treat their citizens this makes perfect sense.
Posted on 04/12/2017 3:12:04 PM PDT by Morgana
United Airlines says it will compensate the cost of tickets for every passenger on Flight 3411, where a man was forcibly removed and dragged earlier this week, according to CNBC.
The news follows a second statement from United CEO Oscar Munoz, in which he said that "no one should ever be mistreated this way" — a pivot from his Monday statement. In the latter, Munoz said the passenger was "disruptive and belligerent."
United has been in hot water since the video first emerged on Sunday, with outraged social media users calling for a boycott and leaving the airline 1-star ratings on Yelp.
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So do I *still* deserve everthing he got?
Ten bucks says that since 9/11 those rules don't apply to commercial aircraft...for better or for worse.
See Posts #88 and 101.
United could have put their 4 aircrew on another carrier or given the 4 bumped passengers a credit and the next available flight on another carrier
I have seen flight crew from one airline fly standby and dead head on competing airlines more than once
Considering how the Chinese Police force treat their citizens this makes perfect sense.
To be more precise...if that's not him and,therefore,he's not licensed in KY,then he'd be violating state law in any case and *Federal* law if any of the patients he was gonna see had Medicaid or Medicare.
Ok.
“What is the remedy and what are the damages?”
We can leave that to the plethora of lawyers who will get in the act. At a minimum, they will likely fight to extend the government regulation from Ralph Nader’s lawsuit that instigated the COC requirements to specifically cover types of “overbooking” and remedies if, big if, the airlines obtain a right to throw people off the plane to seat their own employees. Damages for the Dr. and others they likely will include in a class action may include value for their lost time and any other things creative lawyers will come up with.
While United will try to limit responsibility based on Rule 28, not sure if they will be successful. Judges are passengers, just as they are viewers of videotape and users of Blackberries - which appeared to sway their legal conclusions for the consumers in those cases.
Why? Not one of the indignant passengers volunteered.
Those reimbursements are probably mini bribes to try to soften up any eyewitnesses who were sitting near that Doctor during the violence, if this ends up going to court.
I don't think this is going to go that far though. I believe that United Airlines is going to settle this case out-of-court (fairly soon too), and that Dr. Dao and his lawyers will be richer by millions of dollars, while United Airlines will be poorer by millions of dollars. I also believe that United CEO Munoz will resign by the time of that out-of-court settlement, and that United Airlines will still end up losing a lot of business in the future because of this disgusting incident.
Many creative videos are popping up on youtube which feature this violent episode juxtaposed with United's slogan, "Fly the friendly skies of United", and this one caught my eye:
Clearly. :)
However,it seems to me that under contract law and/or Federal laws regarding commercial air travel (including the ones passed since 9/11) United either did,or did not,have the right to *require* that particular man to leave the aircraft.
But even if they did it seems to me that they're likely to try to cut a deal with him to minimize the PR damage they've suffered.
If they *didn't* my guess is he'd insist on taking this to court hoping for $50 million versus the $250K he'd get in a "setllement".
Yup, add the TSA searches, 2 hour plus waits and the airlines packing us in like sardines makes air travel intolerable. Now I cruise instead. Luckily I’m retired and don’t have to go anywhere I don’t want to. ; )
I hear you.
One poster quoted an NBC talking head lawyer a day or two ago.
TV lawyers especially from the leftist news alway get it wrong.
Ha!
The Doctor acted like a spoiled child having a tantrum. Like a two-year old.
Given his criminal history, he should have been deported a decade ago at least.
Wondering if this “compensation” has any strings in the fine print?
keyboard spew alert
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