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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Another company being run into the ground by a high paid MBA.
CEO Munz thinks he’s still running a cargo hauling railroad.
All United had to do was jack up the offer until it was high enough to attract the 4 volunteers they needed.
It might have cost them a few thousand dollars.
Now they are going to end up losing hundreds of thousands - maybe even millions.
And what is the value of the damage caused by the bad publicity?
Now they seem to go out of their way to make your travel as miserable as possible.
United flies opportunists. That they had no tools for dealing with this, and to find out they had seats available and DID NOT NEED the seats suggests they deserve what’s coming.
This wasn’t an overbooking situation, though. This was them needing to move four employees and being too cheap to charter a small plane to fly them there.
It’s analogous to being seated at Denny’s eating a meal, and the manager tells you to leave because he has four waitresses that want to sit down there.
And when you protest he smashes your face into the table.
“I think I’ve read articles in the past where pilots have ordered the removal of middle eastern appearing passengers speaking Arabic, acting suspicious, and making the other passengers nervous. “
Depends on company policy. He may refuse to move the plane until certain passengers are removed but officially he is not PIC till he starts moving the aircraft for flight.
Media found the criminal records of one David Anh Duy Dao. The doctor on the plane was David Thanh Duc Dao.
I stand by my assertion.
Everything he deserves, you deserve.
not so sure.....there was a drunk pilot sitting in the pilot’s seat, and the engines were stopped, he a got few months in jail, under the rule that he had the aircraft under his control...DWI...
Unionized careerist mentality, seniority and 35 years walking the aisles can be toxic mix combined with draconian TSA attitudes towards passengers
“The video went viral in China with more than 270,000,000 view.”
In China and Vietnam. All Asian countries has seen it and this is not good for United.
If there are any Asian FReepers here you can back me up for what I’m about to say.
In Asian countries they respect their elders. Even their cops would not have treated an older person this way. They are like the American Indians in such regards. To them, this was a grave insult. I’m not Asian but being part NAI I felt it and knew backlash was coming from Asian countries.
Don’t be surprised if United is asked to leave China and Vietnam.
They can deny boarding but once you get your seat you are under a different rule.
In the old days Stewardesses had to quit by age 35? or if they got married. So much for those laws we installed for them. The old hags they have now, Laz would not hit them if they did have go go boots on anyway.
Maybe that old way was a better idea.
“Media found the criminal records of one David Anh Duy Dao. The doctor on the plane was David Thanh Duc Dao.”
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Okay that is too much for me!!!
Was the Captain of the plane named “Sum Ting Wong”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBhaxnw8Rl0
Exactly. Pre-boarding is a different rule set.
Just checked the Commonwealth of Kentucky's Physician Licensure website.There's only one David Dao licensed in Kentucky.He's listed as Elizabethtown,KY which I know to be a suburb of Louisville (Fort Knox,BCT,1969).
If that's not him why was he going to KY to see patients?????????????????
If so, he appears to be winning that bet rather bigly.
You really should do your homework ...
He resides and practices in KY and you are wondering why he is going to KY?
OTOH, if the officer says, "no" or refuses to answer, then the subject may inform the officer that "If you are not arresting me, I'm not moving etc". There are exceptions such as traffic detours, emergencues of all sorts including floods and hurricanes where you must move to a certain place and, of course, crime scenes. FWIW, I doubt whether Dao was arrested, and I doubt if the airport cop would have touched him if Dao had asked the question.
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